AppSignal vs Prometheus: What are the differences?
Developers describe AppSignal as "Monitoring for Ruby and Elixir. By developers, for developers". AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby or Elixir application
Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.. On the other hand, Prometheus is detailed as "An open-source service monitoring system and time series database, developed by SoundCloud". Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
AppSignal and Prometheus are primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" and "Monitoring" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by AppSignal are:
- Track errors
- Performance Monitoring
- Compare deploys. Monitor background jobs.
On the other hand, Prometheus provides the following key features:
- a multi-dimensional data model (timeseries defined by metric name and set of key/value dimensions)
- a flexible query language to leverage this dimensionality
- no dependency on distributed storage
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 5 developers like AppSignal, while over 32 developers mention "Powerful easy to use monitoring" as the leading cause for choosing Prometheus.
Prometheus is an open source tool with 24.6K GitHub stars and 3.49K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Prometheus's open source repository on GitHub.
Uber Technologies, Soundcloud, and DigitalOcean are some of the popular companies that use Prometheus, whereas AppSignal is used by Tolq, Publitas, and code lever. Prometheus has a broader approval, being mentioned in 235 company stacks & 84 developers stacks; compared to AppSignal, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
