The pricing just for the ingest seems way off. $0.002 for 10,000 metrics might not seem like much by even a simple node_exporter will grab 700 metrics every 15 seconds.<p>Thats $24/month just to ingest the cpu/ram/diskspace data from each server. Plus storage and query costs.<p>At work I have a single r4.xlarge instance handling 1.3 million metrics every 15 seconds. Storage is not clustered but cost is only $500/month. It would cost me $45k/month just for the ingest with the new managed service.
14 cents per "query processing minute" sounds like it could add up very fast. Prom queries can get somewhat complex and it's not rare at all IME to have a dashboard making several multi-second queries per load (whether that falls into "you're using Prometheus wrong" being a separate discussion of course)<p>Edit: The example from their pricing page:<p>> We will assume you have 1 end user monitoring a dashboard for an average of 2 hours per day refreshing it every 60 seconds with 20 chart widgets per dashboard (assuming 1 PromQL query per widget)... assuming 18ms per query for this example.<p>Comes out to over $3 per month in query costs. Replace this 1 person with a TV showing the dashboard all day, and the cost jumps to $36, for just one dashboard and (again IME) overly fast query estimates... o.O
From the pricing section:<p>> AMP counts each metric sample ingested to the secured Prometheus-compatible endpoint. AMP also calculates the stored metric samples and metric metadata in gigabytes (GB), where 1GB is 230 bytes.<p>Surely that's a typo, right?
Everyone here complaining about the pricing on the managed Grafana and Prometheus services have clearly never worked at a shop using SumoLogic. Log/metric processing/querying is expensive for a reason.
I very much dislike Prometheus, but the fact that AWS is offering it as a managed service means I am in the minority. I attribute much of Prometheus' success to the influence of ex-Googlers. They joined other companies, had a lot of clout, and sought out a tool that was similar to what they once used.<p>I understand that the Google version of Prometheus is deprecated but there is no commercial equivalent.
I just went through the "process" of installing Grafana, Loki, Promtail and Prometheus on an ubuntu box and it is almost like the company behind all of this has gone out of the their way to make it hard. It isn't really _that_ difficult to get set up, but it also isn't 'apt install' easy (you really want me to create my own startup scripts?) and required me to build my own documentation on how I installed everything.
I wonder how AWS is supporting the development of Prometheus. Are they financing the OSS developers who are spending countless hours dedicated to the project?