Grafana vs Prometheus vs Splunk Cloud | What are the differences?

Grafana

Stacks9.1K

Followers7K

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Votes373

Prometheus

Stacks2.1K

Followers2.6K

+ 1

Votes222

Splunk Cloud

Stacks128

Followers314

+ 1

Votes13

Pros of Grafana

Pros of Prometheus

Pros of Splunk Cloud

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Beautiful
65
Graphs are interactive
52
Easy
52
Free
33
Nicer than the Graphite web interface
23
Many integrations
14
Can build dashboards
9
Easy to specify time window
8
Can collaborate on dashboards
8
Dashboards contain number tiles
5
Open Source
4
Integration with InfluxDB
4
Authentification and users management
4
Click and drag to zoom in
3
Threshold limits in graphs
2
Alerts
2
Simple and native support to Prometheus
2
It is open to cloud watch and many database
2
Great community support
1
You can visualize real time data to put alerts
1
You can use this for development to check memcache
0
Grapsh as code
0
Plugin visualizationa

42
Powerful easy to use monitoring
38
Flexible query language
31
Dimensional data model
23
Alerts
21
Active and responsive community
20
Extensive integrations
18
Easy to setup
11
Beautiful Model and Query language
7
Easy to extend
6
Nice
3
Written in Go
1
Easy for monitoring
1
Good for experimentation

6
More powerful & Integrates with on-prem & off-prem
3
Powerful log analytics
2
Free
1
Pci compliance
1
Production debugger

Cons of Grafana

Cons of Prometheus

Cons of Splunk Cloud

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10
Just for metrics
5
Needs monitoring to access metrics endpoints
4
Bad UI
2
Supports only active agents
2
Written in Go
2
Not easy to configure and use
1
Requires multiple applications and tools
1
TLS is quite difficult to understand

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What is Grafana?

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

What is Prometheus?

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.

What is Splunk Cloud?

If you're looking for all the benefits of Splunk® Enterprise with all the benefits of software-as-a-service, then look no further. Splunk Cloud is backed by a 100% uptime SLA, scales to over 10TB/day, and offers a highly secure environment.

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