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Grafana vs Prometheus

Grafana and Prometheus are both listed under Observability in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.

It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.

Grafana vs Prometheus field by field

Grafana, Prometheus compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
Grafana
Prometheus
CategoryObservabilityObservability
Pricing modelFreemiumOpen Source
Open sourceYesYes
GitHub stars77.6K66.9K
Key features
  • Rich visualization and dashboard creation
  • Support for multiple data sources
  • Advanced alerting and notification system
  • Templating and variables
  • User and team management
  • Plugin ecosystem and extensibility
  • Annotation and event correlation
  • Mobile-friendly responsive design
  • Multi-dimensional time series data model
  • PromQL query language
  • Pull-based metrics collection
  • Service discovery integration
  • Alerting with Alertmanager
  • Efficient storage and compression
  • Rich ecosystem of exporters
  • Grafana integration for visualization
Use cases
  • Infrastructure and application monitoring
  • Business intelligence dashboards
  • IoT and sensor data visualization
  • DevOps metrics and KPIs
  • Real-time analytics
  • Log analysis and correlation
  • Performance monitoring
  • Custom metrics visualization
  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Application performance monitoring
  • Kubernetes cluster monitoring
  • Microservices observability
  • DevOps metrics collection
  • SRE and reliability engineering
  • Custom business metrics
  • Alert and incident management
Integrations
  • Prometheus
  • InfluxDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • Jaeger
  • Node Exporter
Tags
  • visualization
  • dashboards
  • metrics
  • monitoring
  • alerting
  • analytics
  • metrics
  • time-series
  • monitoring
  • alerting
  • open-source
  • kubernetes
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What each one is

Grafana

Open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform

Grafana is the open-source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

Full Grafana listing

Prometheus

Open-source monitoring system with time series database

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It collects and stores metrics as time series data, providing a multidimensional data model, flexible query language, and efficient storage.

Full Prometheus listing

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