Glowroot
Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM (by glowroot)
prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. (by prometheus)
| Glowroot | prometheus | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 462 | |
| 1,271 | 58,275 | |
| 0.9% | 1.4% | |
| 7.9 | 10.0 | |
| 3 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Java | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Glowroot
Posts with mentions or reviews of Glowroot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-28.
- Glowroot - Open Source Java APM
- Open Source Java APM
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Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal
Java has an excellent one open source APM - https://glowroot.org/.
Python and other tools - not so much.
I wouldn't say Gartner created hype. Glowroot has been invaluable to us. Of course we run a massive footprint of 0.5m - 0.75m JVMs.
- I'm looking for suggestions on improving the startup of a monolith project I work on
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Top 13 open source APM tools in 2021
🌐 Website 💻 GitHub
prometheus
Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-29.
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Monitoring API Requests and Responses for System Health
Prometheus + Grafana: Open-source tools that offer maximum flexibility without ongoing licensing costs—ideal for teams willing to manage their own infrastructure and configuration.
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Fortifying Cloud-Native Applications: Key Security Measures
Prometheus: Best known for monitoring, but also valuable for tracking security metrics that signal potential issues.
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How to Optimize Your Fintech API in 2025: A Guide
Prometheus: This open-source monitoring solution pairs with Grafana for powerful custom visualization of exactly what matters to your business.
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Cloud-Native Architectures: Building Resilient Systems
Logs, metrics, and traces: Use tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry.
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Monitoring Docker Hub limits with Prometheus
Prometheus is used to collect metrics of your systems over time.
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3 Types of Chaos Experiments and How To Run Them
Utilize monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog to monitor how services communicate under normal and failure conditions. Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd can provide detailed insights without changing your application code.
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Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab
Prometheus - Metrics collection and storage
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Beyond the Buzzwords: The Relevance of DORA Metrics in Contemporary Cloud Hosting for Developers
Monitoring/Recovery: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, New Relic
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Hardware Metrics Collection with IOT Devices
Prometheus is a production grade metrics aggregator widely used in the industry. It provides an extensive list of exporters to pull metrics from. For example, to scrape metrics delivered with node exporter, you need to add the following scrape configuration:
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Building a declarative home lab using k3s, Ansible, Helm on NixOS and Rocky Linux
Prometheus
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Glowroot and prometheus you can also consider the following projects:
JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications
Metrics - :chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.
Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin
Stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring for java server applications
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool