We performed a comparison between Prometheus and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"The interface needs some work."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The product is old and not updated."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and LogicMonitor. See our Prometheus vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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