Last updated: Nov 04, 2026
| Time to go live | Relative frequency |
|---|---|
| Under one month | Most common |
| Under one day | Also common |
| One to three months | Less common |
| Three months or longer | Occasional |
Easy to set up and rollout in different environments.
Alert system, configurable services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI and graphs looks outdated and basic, In most cases we use prometheus alog with Grafana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The best opensource tool to monitor and setup alerting for our environment. Best result can be achieved by integrating with Graphana Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Little tricky to setup the advanced features, especially for those who lacking technical expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
helps gain very deep insights about the system using by tracking CPU usage with the help of different metrics. You can easily write queries to calculate error rates, request percentiles, or saturation levels across thousands of containers in real-time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
kind of gets very limited without grafana? would be good if it could deliver more stand alone! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Prometheus excels in real-time monitoring and alerting for cloud-native and containerized environments. It’s highly efficient, easy to deploy, and integrates smoothly with popular tools like Grafana and Kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While is a flexible tool, it can take some time to fully master PromQL, especially for users new to time-series databases. Additionally, managing long-term storage and scaling may require some extra planning or third-party integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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 effecient data model, scalability, seamless integration with visualization tools like Grafana and high performance in complex and large kubernetes environments makes it stand out and a go to choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Learning curve can be bit challenging for new users especially around using promql and understanding the metrices. Also in very large environments, and with metric data that has too many dimensions, performance can sometimes be bit not upto mark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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 several times a week to monitor infra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
THere are some manual things that can be better like the alerting features can be made easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Amazing tools to manage in terms of metrics and Alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Understanding promql is hard, If that could be easy that would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ease of Integration with my alerting system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
nothing as such only few things we understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its integration with the messaging tools, we've used Slack and got integrated with Prometheus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Understand its query & visual presentation, without Grafana, would be hard to interpret the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Integrations made easy and bundled in Container Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No dislike in the product. Reports can be added Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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