kube-prometheus VS prometheus-operator

Compare kube-prometheus vs prometheus-operator and see what are their differences.

kube-prometheus

Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes (by prometheus-operator)

prometheus-operator

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes (by prometheus-operator)
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kube-prometheus prometheus-operator
40 39
6,201 8,672
2.7% 1.4%
8.8 9.7
3 days ago 4 days ago
Jsonnet Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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kube-prometheus

Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-prometheus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-14.

prometheus-operator

Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus-operator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kube-prometheus and prometheus-operator you can also consider the following projects:

metrics-server - Scalable and efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

helm-charts - Prometheus community Helm charts

mimir - Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

kube-thanos - Kubernetes specific configuration for deploying Thanos.

kubernetes-mixin - A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes.

kuberhealthy - A Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks as pods. Works great with Prometheus!

sloth - 🦥 Easy and simple Prometheus SLO (service level objectives) generator

ansible-prometheus - Deploy Prometheus monitoring system

descheduler - Descheduler for Kubernetes

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.