Loggly vs Prometheus: What are the differences?
What is Loggly? Log Management, Simplified in the Cloud. The world's most popular cloud-based log management service delivers application intelligence.
What is Prometheus? 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.
Loggly belongs to "Log Management" category of the tech stack, while Prometheus can be primarily classified under "Monitoring Tools".
Some of the features offered by Loggly are:
- See what your application is doing during development
- Catch exceptions and track execution flow
- Graph and report on the number of errors generated
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
"Centralized log management" is the top reason why over 35 developers like Loggly, while over 32 developers mention "Powerful easy to use monitoring" as the leading cause for choosing Prometheus.
Prometheus is an open source tool with 25K GitHub stars and 3.55K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Prometheus's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Prometheus has a broader approval, being mentioned in 243 company stacks & 85 developers stacks; compared to Loggly, which is listed in 95 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.
