Prometheus Alternatives

Prometheus is described as 'Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Prometheus for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, SaaS, Self-Hosted and Windows apps. The best Prometheus alternative is Better Stack. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Better Stack or HyperDX. Other great apps like Prometheus are Splunk, Graylog, Kibana and InfluxDB.

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  1. Better Stack icon
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    AI-driven SRE platform offering real-time infrastructure monitoring, incident management, log analytics, traces, error tracking, metrics, real user monitoring, status pages, and a warehouse, with full data ingestion, centralized dashboard, custom alerts, and reduced costs.

    279 Better Stack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. Datadog icon
     79 likes

    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    256 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  3. HyperDX icon
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    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    85 HyperDX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  4. Splunk icon
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    Splunk is software that provides unique visibility across your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time. Only Splunk enables you to search, report, monitor and analyze streaming and historical data from any source.

    106 Splunk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Graylog icon
     44 likes

    Graylog is a powerful Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution offering a robust log analytics platform that simplifies the collection, search, analysis, and alerting of all types of machine-generated data.

    73 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Graylog vs Prometheus Comments
    MrDrMcCoy
    Negative
    1

    Graylog doesn't store metrics, Prometheus doesn't store logs.

    • Graylog is Freemium and Source AvailablePrometheus is Free and Open Source
  6. Kibana icon
     35 likes

    Open-source interface for real-time visualization, search, monitoring logs or metrics, anomaly detection, and natural language queries in Elasticsearch, supporting machine learning, automated alerting, threat detection, and integration with tools like Slack and ServiceNow.

    47 Kibana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Kibana vs Prometheus Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    6

    Kibana is a web interface to present metrics. It's not an alerting system. ELK-Stack with X-Pack is more similar.

    • Kibana is Freemium and Open SourcePrometheus is Free and Open Source
  7. InfluxDB icon
     9 likes

    InfluxDB open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA’s, and chart a...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
  8. Grafana Loki icon
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    Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

    69 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Grafana Loki vs Prometheus Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Grafana Loki is for storing logs while Prometheus is for storing metrics

    • Grafana Loki is Free and Open SourcePrometheus is also Free and Open Source
  9. New Relic icon
     29 likes

    Pinpoint and solve performance issues in your Ruby, Java, .NET, PHP and Python apps with real user, application and server monitoring.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. DeepFlow icon
     6 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Gain unparalleled observability into applications, infrastructure, and network across cloud and hybrid setups. Offers visualizations, distributed tracing, centralized logs, and integrates seamlessly with Azure and third-party services while enhancing security and compliance.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Online
     
  12. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications running on AWS. It collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in AWS resources.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
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