G2 Vendor Directory

Prometheus

by Prometheus Authors

60

Reviews

4.5

Star rating

#7

Rank in Time Series Databases

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Easy Integrations
  • Integrations
  • Alerting System
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Monitoring
  • Speed

Cons

  • Learning Curve
  • Difficult Learning
  • Limited Customization
  • Required Expertise
  • Ineffective Alerts
  • Slow Performance

Traffic & LLM citations

Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Prometheus.

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Winning from

Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

Losing to

Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Prometheus.

Key stats

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63

Mid-Market

3

Adoption by company size

SegmentShare of reviews
Small Business33.3%
Mid-Market38.3%
Enterprise28.3%

Quarterly history

QuarterReviewsStar rating
2024 Q434.5
2025 Q144.4
2025 Q215.0
2026 Q134.7

Satisfaction ratings

Ease of Use8.4
Ease of Setup8.4
Quality of Support8.1
Meets Requirements9.0

What reviewers say

Easy Setup and intuitive service monitoring tool

5.0

“Easy to set up and rollout in different environments. Alert system, configurable services.”

Software Engineer

Best tool to pull metrics and present them in a graphical dashboard

4.5

“The best opensource tool to monitor and setup alerting for our environment. Best result can be achieved by integrating with Graphana”

Senior Operarional Lead

Deep System Insights with Real-Time Metrics Across Thousands of Containers

4.5

“helps gain very deep insights about the system using by tracking CPU usage with the help of different metrics. You can easily write queries to calculate error rates, request percentiles, or saturation levels across thousands of containers in real-time”

Software Engineer