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as per my understanding & usage, new relic is APM tool where we integrate the sdk at code level for granuler details and help identify bottleneck. It is more useable for Developer. prometheus is more of montiroing/alerting only system. I have not come across any use case where they replace each other. It is more usesable for Devops.

Thanks, that is the sense I'm getting. I'm not experienced in devops so it's hard to tell the difference.

Could you say more about the devops/developer distinction? I don't really know what that means. For example if Prometheus is designed for monitoring/alerting only but not performance monitoring, what exactly does it monitor/alert users about?

I gather this generally means higher-level stuff like response times, latency, HTTP codes, etc. without app tracing. Would be good to get some validation of that understanding from a human though. 🙂

you can monitor your api performance with Prometheus.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/prometheus-monitor-applications-at-scale/. “Prometheus is great for monitoring metrics – and that’s it. It’s not an effective Application Performance Management (APM) tool, because it focuses solely on server-side metrics.”

just did a search and it seems, i was not update to date with additions in prometheus. So you can use client libs for instrumenting https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/ A good source to refer - https://openapm.io/landscape?agent=prometheus-exporter&instrumentation-lib=prometheus-client-libs&collector=prometheus-server&storage=prometheus-server&dashboarding=grafana&alerting=prometheus-alerting&showCommercial=false&showFormats=false

Yeah, I found the client libs too and that is what convinced me I need something less manual for my use-case. Thanks for the follow-up!