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Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability. It collects and stores metrics as time series data, enabling real-time monitoring of applications, systems, and services. With its powerful query language, PromQL, users can analyze and visualize data effectively. Prometheus operates independently, requiring no external dependencies, and integrates seamlessly with various service discovery mechanisms, making it ideal for dynamic environments. Key Features and Functionality: - Dimensional Data Model: Prometheus organizes time series data using a flexible dimensional model, identifying each series by a metric name and a set of key-value pairs. - Powerful Query Language (PromQL): PromQL allows users to query, correlate, and transform time series data for visualizations, alerts, and more. - Precise Alerting: Alerting rules based on PromQL leverage the dimensional data model, with a separate Alertmanager component handling notifications and silencing. - Simple Operation: Prometheus servers function independently, relying solely on local storage. Developed in Go, the statically linked binaries are easy to deploy across various environments. - Instrumentation Libraries: A wide range of official and community-contributed libraries are available for instrumenting applications in most major programming languages. - Ubiquitous Integrations: Prometheus offers numerous integrations, facilitating easy extraction of metrics from existing systems. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Prometheus addresses the need for a robust, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution in modern, dynamic environments. Its ability to collect, store, and query time series data empowers organizations to gain real-time insights into their systems' performance and health. By providing precise alerting and seamless integration with various service discovery mechanisms, Prometheus ensures that issues are detected and addressed promptly, enhancing system reliability and operational efficiency.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/30/2018

"Very flexible monitoring system that works well with K8s"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Prometheus is the industry standard for monitoring. There are a lot of plugins and works well with other hybrid solutions like Google Stackdriver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

The setup process / learning curve is pretty steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2018

"Great tool for monitoring"

4/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Easy setup and lots of community support and tutorials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Maintaining it can be challenging sometimes better to offload to another server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike B.

Student System Administrator

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/5/2018

"Easy analysis and visualizations for various data"

4/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Simple and east interface, graphing capabilities are simple but effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Initial configuration can be a bit difficult. Dynamic re-discovery is non-existent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nick R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/29/2018

"Vwery good product!"

4/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Prometheus is a very user friendly program without compromising it's capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Prometheus could use more frequent updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/11/2018

"Helped to get real time monitoring quickly then expected"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Extremely fast and professional real time monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Configuration needs development time, it is a bit complex to work with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward L.

Linux System Administrator & Programmer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/12/2016

"Simple monitoring and metric collection"

5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

I really love how simple it is to set up. Download the binary and you are all set. Easy to deploy with configuration management tools. Adding Prometheus to our environment was much easier than other monitoring solutions that I tried. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

I wish that there was a little more documentation about the different exporters that are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Prometheus:

Give it a try. It is simple to get going and you should have a pretty good idea of what it can do in a couple of hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I wanted a modular approach to monitoring. This provides the metric collection piece that I can graphically represent in Grafana dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex G.

Backend Go Developer

Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/28/2016

"Backend development"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

The data collected was critical for business intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Nothing in particular, it did the expected job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Prometheus:

None so far, it has been a very product. I'm suggesting it to my new company too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Get metrics for answers to sent emails, and create an algorithm that optimizes the chances to get answers in certain time slots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/12/2016

"Prometheus review"

3/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

- I like that it's written in Go.

- Addresses monitoring microservices.

- It collects time series data.

- Integrates with PagerDuty.

- No dependencies.

- Web API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

- It has a lot of moving parts and can get complicated quickly when you're dealing with 20,000 VMs.

- The information that Prometheus collects is not that detailed.

- The community that supports it is small.

- Configuration is complicated and not a fan of YAML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/4/2016

"Good!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

(Fairly) easy setup when using pre-made docker images, or other premade configs. Wide range of exporters, and very light compared to some alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Annoying to have to manually search for exporters, as documentation can be scarce for some of the lesser known ones. Would be easier if there was an easy drag and drop 'module' system, maybe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.