• Storage Management Challenges: Managing data storage and retention can be complex without third-party add-ons.
• Troubleshooting high memory usage can be challenging.
• Update processes tend to be slow, leading to delays in improvements.

G2 Ratings: 4.4

https://www.g2.com/products/prometheus/reviews

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Company Overview: Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Benefits (pros):

• Open-Source Flexibility: Free to use and highly extensible with solid community support.
• Powerful Query Language: Features a unique query language for fetching and viewing detailed data.
• It can gather various metrics from multiple applications simultaneously and provides customizable alerts based on the collected data to suit user preferences.
• Additionally, it offers strong support for Kubernetes infrastructure and is completely free to use.

• Community: https://prometheus.io/community/
• Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
• GitHub: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus