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Dynatrace Infrastructure Monitoring vs Prometheus

Both stand on kubernetes monitoring. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Dynatrace Infrastructure Monitoring

Paid LinuxWebWindows

Dynatrace offers infrastructure monitoring with separate plans for discovery, infrastructure analysis, and full-stack monitoring. Consider the paid plans and proprietary query language when weighing it against your operational needs.

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Prometheus

Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2

Prometheus provides a free monitoring and alerting toolkit with flexible metric collection and querying. Its stated accuracy limitation makes it unsuitable for per-request billing workloads.

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The facts

	Dynatrace Infrastructure Monitoring	Prometheus
Free plan	No	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Linux, Web, Windows	Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Web, Windows
Lowest paid plan	Foundation & Discovery: $7 a month	Free or on request
Plans published	3	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	dynatrace.com	prometheus.io
On kubernetes monitoring	#52 of 56	#17 of 56

Dynatrace Infrastructure Monitoring: what it does well

Tracks metrics, logs, traces, and events
Includes synthetic monitoring and distributed tracing
Offers SLO tracking and log search
Self-hosted option is available

What to know first

No free plan
Full-Stack Monitoring costs $58 a month
Query language is proprietary

Prometheus: what it does well

Free and open source.
PromQL queries time-series metrics.
Targets can be discovered or configured statically.
Server runs without external dependencies.
TLS and HTTP Basic Authentication are supported.

What to know first

Not recommended where data must be 100% accurate.
Public exposure of component endpoints requires protective measures.
Security fixes are handled on a best-effort basis.

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