AC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2018

"Handsdown a great monitoring tool when bundled with grafana"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Seamless deployment on openshift, works well out of the box, very easy to onboard services to it and to get started with, production level quality. Grafana to visualize the metrics is a game changer and to monitoring the services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

The UI could be better and made easier to onbaord services, the documentation is somewhat lacking and needs better examples and use-cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UA

Verified User in Architecture & Planning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2018

"Great Tool "

5/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

Prometheus is very user friendly. It helps keep our business organized and it quite easy and fast to use and adapt to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Prometheus?

Some features aren't useful to me. These are "extra" features that would certainly be useful to others, but would take me longer to learn than is useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Prometheus:

I would definitely recommend using Prometheus if you are trying to streamline services. Even in a small company like ours, it has an important role. However, it could be financially prohibitive in some cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Prometheus helps keep our business organized and on track. It has saved time and helps streamline services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

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.

UC

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.

MB

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.

NR

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.

AC

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.

EL

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.

AG

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.

UE

Verified User in Entertainment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/12/2016

"Prometheus review"

3/5

What do you like best about Prometheus?

- I like that its 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 your dealing with 20,000 vm's.

- 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.