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Performance comparison between Cloudera Manager and Prometheus

Learn the performance comparison between Cloudera Manager and Prometheus metric stores.

  • Prometheus can handle more than twice the amount of TimeSeries entities than Cloudera Manager while maintaining the consistency of the metrics.
  • Metrics queries for shorter time periods (30 minutes, 1 hour) take about half the time in case of Prometheus compared to Cloudera Manager.
  • Metrics queries for larger time periods (2 weeks, 1 month), Prometheus seems to be about 30% slower than Cloudera Manager.
  • Metric inconsistencies are not observed while testing Prometheus.