Alternatives to Prometheus
6 alternatives found
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit, originally built at SoundCloud in 2012 by Matt T. Proud and Julius Volz, and donated to the CNCF in 2016 as its second graduated project.
Grafana
Visualization layer for Prometheus — Prometheus collects metrics, Grafana displays them in dashboards
Thanos
Prometheus long-term storage and multi-cluster aggregation — extends Prometheus for HA and retention
Datadog
Fully managed observability SaaS — Datadog replaces the entire Prometheus+Grafana+Alertmanager stack
InfluxDB
Time-series database with push-based ingestion — different model than Prometheus pull-scraping
VictoriaMetrics
High-performance Prometheus-compatible storage — drop-in replacement with better compression and speed
OpenTelemetry
Vendor-neutral telemetry SDK — OTel generates metrics in OTLP format, Prometheus scrapes OTLP exporters
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