prometheus
The premium Open Source alternative to New Relic
🎯 Best for:Cloud-native environments and Kubernetes-based infrastructure monitoring.
What is prometheus?
A self-hosted alternative to New Relic for metric collection and alerting. It implements a pull-based scraping model and a multi-dimensional data model with PromQL.
Tech Stack
GoMonitoring & Logs
Why prometheus?
- • Efficient time-series storage
- • Service discovery integration
- • No agent required on targets
Limitations
- • Manual scaling required
- • No long-term storage built-in
- • Pull model firewall challenges
3/5/2026
Last Update
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Forks
755
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on New Relic)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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