Prometheus vs InfluxDB - Key Differences, concepts, and similarities

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  • signoz

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

  • For that you can explore OpenTelemetry based full-stack APM, SigNoz. With SigNoz you can monitor metrics and track transactions across services with distributed tracing. There are other features like exceptions monitoring, custom dashboards, and alerts too.

  • prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

  • First deployed for open use by SoundCloud, Prometheus is a package of system monitoring and event alerting tools. Since 2016, it's been a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF.) The same governance body for other revolutionary tools, such as the Kubernetes project.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  • First deployed for open use by SoundCloud, Prometheus is a package of system monitoring and event alerting tools. Since 2016, it's been a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF.) The same governance body for other revolutionary tools, such as the Kubernetes project.

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