Alternatives to prometheus
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. prometheus itself: install prometheus.
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MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database
sysbench
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure serv
postgrest
REST API for any Postgres database
turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases
golang-migrate
Database migrations. CLI and Golang library
dbmate
🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
sqlboiler
Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema
tbls
tbls is a CI-Friendly tool to document a database, written in Go
kuzu
Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher
sqlancer
Automated testing to find logic and performance bugs in database systems
compiledb
Tool for generating Clang's JSON Compilation Database files for make-based build systems
SuperDB
An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
pgcopydb
Copy a Postgres database to a target Postgres server (pg_dump | pg_restore on steroids)
db-vcs
Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line
cliproxyapi
Wrap Antigravity, ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, Grok Build, Muse Code, Davin as an OpenAI/Gemini/Claude/Codex compatible API service, allowing you to en
octosql
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL
wal-g
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
kapacitor
Open source framework for processing, monitoring, and alerting on time series data
macmon
🦀🌡️ Real-time system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M5). No sudo. TUI, JSON/Prometheus metrics server, and Rust library
modsecurity
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming
libfaketime
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than prometheus — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
prometheus is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.