Developer Tools Review
Prometheus
Deep Dive Analysis
Prometheus scrapes metrics from your services and stores them as time series, with its own query language for alerting and dashboards.
Target Audience
Teams running services that need metrics and alerting they control.
The Final Verdict
"Pair it with Grafana and you have a complete metrics stack. Plan for long-term storage before you need it."
Best Alternatives to Prometheus
What we checked
Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.