Logtail vs Prometheus

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Pros of Logtail
Pros of Prometheus
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    • 47
      Powerful easy to use monitoring
    • 38
      Flexible query language
    • 32
      Dimensional data model
    • 27
      Alerts
    • 23
      Active and responsive community
    • 22
      Extensive integrations
    • 19
      Easy to setup
    • 12
      Beautiful Model and Query language
    • 7
      Easy to extend
    • 6
      Nice
    • 3
      Written in Go
    • 2
      Good for experimentation
    • 1
      Easy for monitoring

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    Cons of Logtail
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      • 12
        Just for metrics
      • 6
        Bad UI
      • 6
        Needs monitoring to access metrics endpoints
      • 4
        Not easy to configure and use
      • 3
        Supports only active agents
      • 2
        Written in Go
      • 2
        TLS is quite difficult to understand
      • 2
        Requires multiple applications and tools
      • 1
        Single point of failure

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      What is Logtail?

      It uses a custom-built technology to process and store your logs. Collect logs across your stack with SQL-compatible structured logging.

      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.

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      What are some alternatives to Logtail and Prometheus?
      New Relic
      The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
      Kibana
      Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
      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.
      Sentry
      Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
      Amazon CloudWatch
      It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
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