- Primary focus
- Cloud-native observability platform, now part of Palo Alto Networks
- Deployment
- Not specified
- Source model
- Other license
- Pricing model
- contact sales
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Not specified
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Chronosphere provides metrics, logs and traces observability for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments with cardinality/cost controls. Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of Chronosphere in 2026.

| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Primary focus | Cloud-native observability platform, now part of Palo Alto Networks | Open-source, pull-based metrics monitoring and alerting toolkit |
| Deployment | Not specified | Self-hosted |
| Source model | Other license | Open source |
| Pricing model | contact sales | open source |
| API available | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop | Not specified | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not specified | Not specified |
| Overview | Chronosphere provides metrics, logs and traces observability for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments with cardinality/cost controls. Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of Chronosphere in 2026. | Prometheus scrapes time-series metrics from instrumented targets, stores them locally, and evaluates alerting rules with PromQL, forwarding alerts to Alertmanager. It has no built-in dashboarding or long-term storage layer of its own. |
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- Primary focus
- Open-source, pull-based metrics monitoring and alerting toolkit
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Pricing model
- open source
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Yes
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Prometheus scrapes time-series metrics from instrumented targets, stores them locally, and evaluates alerting rules with PromQL, forwarding alerts to Alertmanager. It has no built-in dashboarding or long-term storage layer of its own.
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