prometheus VS InfluxDB

Compare prometheus vs InfluxDB and see what are their differences.

InfluxDB

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics (by influxdata)
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prometheus InfluxDB
381 28
52,642 27,697
1.4% 1.3%
9.9 9.9
1 day ago about 17 hours ago
Go Rust
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.
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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.

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 2024-04-12.

InfluxDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of InfluxDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing prometheus and InfluxDB you can also consider the following projects:

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

VictoriaMetrics - VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

TDengine - TDengine is an open source, high-performance, cloud native time-series database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, Industrial IoT and DevOps.

Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin

Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

Squirrel - Fluent SQL generation for golang

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

RRDtool - RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database

Glowroot - Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM

clickhouse-bulk - Collects many small inserts to ClickHouse and send in big inserts