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An open-source service monitoring system and time series database.

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An open-source service monitoring system and time series database.


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Thangaraj R.
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Thangaraj R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Metrics Torch The Prometheus"
Amazing tools to manage in terms of metrics and Alerts.
Hitesh M.
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Hitesh M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Prometheus Review"
Well its easy to use since it is already well managed by developers. Integration is easy though with grafana , I use it very frequently like severa...
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ibrahim d.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best and definitely the only complete monitoring solution for kubernetes"
I have been using prometheus for almost 6 years now. I haven't found any other monitoring solution which is as feature rich as prometheus. It's eff...
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Deep C.
DC
Devops engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

Best tool to provide monitoring matrics and setup alerting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Taking more Memory to compare to another tool like zabix Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prometheus provides very simple promql queries, readily available in the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darwin F.
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Consultor informático
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

A good monitoring tool, I have used it for the past 1 year and I have never seen any kind of problem till now. almost covered all the useful metrics that need to be monitored. at first, it is complex to implement but once these problems are solved it can be the best monitoring solution for your environment, In addition to being able to use it as a service, its requirements are not very high, this helps to keep a low budget in monitoring storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

You may need more than one server or service in addition to addons to complement the monitoring needs, for those new to the platform it is complicated, its different modules can confuse in its implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Prometheus:

to start with Prometheus I recommend you check its different modules and the situations where it should be implemented, that will help a lot for the monitoring solution

In addition, the use of Kubernetes was a condition that helped in making this decision, as well as its application with Dockers. This type of implementation as a service gave the team a great advantage in the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Because it is an open-source platform, we were able to stop paying on platforms to solve monitoring, which helped perfectly with monitoring. It also has a large open-source community that supports us in case of problems. to start with Prometheus I recommend you check its different modules and the situations where it should be implemented, that will help a lot for the monitoring solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yiorgos [George] A.
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DevOps Engineer
Financial Services
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

The whole design of Prometheus where goes ahead and scrapes data. Push gateways for the cases it is not possible. The easy way one can publish metrics if one is serious about consuming them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

PromQL. There are not enough words to describe the horrificness of the language. This looks like a weird hack because someone liked to express themselves with relational algebra and not knowing enough Prolog to use it as a query language instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Invest a lot in learning PromQL. Relying on ServerFault / StackOverflow for your queries is not enough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

I want to know in a uniform way both the state of the infrastructure and the applications running on it. Prometheus provides a common interface and database for both and as such useful correlations can easily happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

infant r.
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Lead vmware admin
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

Best monitoring tool i have ever seen , am using it for last 4 years never seen any kind of issues so far. Almost covered

all the useful metrics which needs to be monitored. It needs some basic skills , once you have that you can build a beautiful

monitoring solution for your environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

There is no major concerns as such but i have seen few metrics are missing even in the latest versions also , for example

the latency for datastores metrics for vmware is missing , Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

The most important problem which we have solved is stopped paying for the enterprise monitoring tools , since prometheus

itself is designed as a enterprise level but free of cost. And ease of administration , have metrics for almost all components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

shubham c.
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DevOps Engineer
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

Metric-based and best cloud Native tool support, Best monitoring tool which I am using for months and continuing. It provide execellent insights from a variety of matrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

PromQL is something if you don't know you will face issues. It you are at initial stage you need to have good hands-on to get the things done. But before that thing can be frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Containers heath check in cluster. It provide wide range of monitoring capabilities and being a DevOps Engineer it is really to be must-have tool to learn as it will make your job easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Prometheus?

Cloud native tools compatibility and support, push/pull options to get metrics, prolql capabilities to filter & combine multiple metrics to create custom alerts, stability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

breaking changes between versions, scalability issues when using federated prometheus, critical bus like a recent memory leak can affect other applications when prometheus is embedded and time to resolution is not easy to predict in those cases due to the nature of the team managing the direction of the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Prometheus:

Plan your model as you scale your use, adding more metrics is never free so careful selection of the useful ones is critical when scaling up to thousands of pods/nodes/clusters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

prometheus is our main metrics and monitoring tool, not only for the application layer but all the way down to the hardware. the wide adoption it has helps with the integration with existing monitoring solutions our customers have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

César G.
CG
Senior Software Development Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

The software is very lightweight and can be hosted with minimal resource usage. Many exporters exist for various software, but the format is simple enough to build your custom exporter for exotic apps.

Prometheus can also be combined with Grafana to present a beautiful dashboard and use Alertmanager to create complex alerting rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

The initial configuration takes time as nothing works out of the box, and the query language (PromQL) can be somewhat complex if one needs to build an advanced dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Prometheus at work to monitor our container cluster health and the performance of various services. The software allows us to predict future bottlenecks based on aggregated data that we collected previously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

1. Integrations with webhooks

2. Customised notification channels

3. Constant monitoring of your resources

4. Easy implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

1. Poor customer service is one of the biggest flaw. In case you get stuck, you will not get appropriate support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Prometheus to monitor all our assets including Kubernetes solutions. The software is robust and makes sure to notify in case of any outages. It is a reliable software and helps you save tons of human hours with automatic monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zobia K.
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Jr. Devops Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

It is push based metric collector and show data in table or graphs acurately. It can collect data from instance annd also from hosted website it has accurate aleerting system too. it is fast and accurate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Prometheus is it self an efficient framework but when we talk about visualization it is not much effective and efficient. prometheus use grafana for visualization and become effective as datasource for grafana Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a DevOps engineer Monitoring is a vital duty to monitor the efficiency of infrastructure we built and monitor the site which we host. It is helpful to collect data for monitoring efficiently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swati G.
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Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Prometheus?

it is helpful for collecting the metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

GUI can be better for creating dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Prometheus solving and how is that benefiting you?

metrics collection

log store

send firing

check rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.