# Prometheus vs Pulumi

| Attribute | Prometheus | Pulumi |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 66.8 (57% (medium)) | 69.4 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 5,467 | 2,143 |
| adoption.github_stars | 66,366 | 25,758 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 11,748,542 | 1,440,025 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A systems monitoring platform that collects metrics from configured targets at regular intervals, evaluates alert rules using PromQL, and triggers notifications. It uses a dimensional data model with key-value labels for flexible metric analysis and dashboarding. It is indexed under Time-Series Databases.","source":"https://prometheus.io","question":"What is Prometheus?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Prometheus is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://prometheus.io","question":"Is Prometheus free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Prometheus supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://prometheus.io","question":"What platforms does Prometheus support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Prometheus can be deployed on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://prometheus.io","question":"Can Prometheus be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 24 integrations for Prometheus, including Amazon SNS, Discord, incident.io, Jira, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie and PagerDuty, plus 16 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://prometheus.io","question":"What does Prometheus integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Prometheus. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Prometheus not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/security/","question":"What security certifications does Prometheus have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Prometheus is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus","question":"Is Prometheus open source?","confidence":0.99}]` | `[{"answer":"A platform for defining and managing cloud infrastructure using TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, or HCL instead of domain-specific languages, with built-in policy enforcement, compliance tracking, and AI-powered resource discovery. It is indexed under Infrastructure as Code Tools.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"What is Pulumi?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pulumi is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Team Edition, Enterprise and Business Critical, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"Is Pulumi free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pulumi supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"What platforms does Pulumi support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pulumi can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"Can Pulumi be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Pulumi, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, GitHub and Slack, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"What does Pulumi integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Pulumi. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pulumi not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/tutorials/eval-compliance-terraform/","question":"What security certifications does Pulumi have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Pulumi is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi","question":"Is Pulumi open source?","confidence":0.99},{"answer":"Pulumi is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","question":"Where is Pulumi available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A pull-based monitoring platform that periodically scrapes metrics from instrumented targets over HTTP and stores them in a time-series database. It provides PromQL for querying metrics and integrates with Alertmanager for rule-based alerting and incident notifications. | An infrastructure-as-code system that lets you define, deploy, and manage cloud resources across multiple providers using Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, .NET, and YAML, with declarative provisioning, policy enforcement, and integrated state management. |
| features.capabilities | `{"clustering":"distributed","data_model":"metrics","deployment":"self_hosted","compression":"XOR2 float chunk encoding","ingest_model":"both","licence_class":"permissive_oss","query_language":"PromQL","replication_ha":true,"high_cardinality":"strong","sql_compatibility":"non_sql","prometheus_remote_write":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","language":"TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, YAML","paradigm":"general_language","multicloud":true,"policy_as_code":true,"drift_detection":true,"import_existing":true,"state_management":"vendor_managed","open_source_engine":true,"provider_ecosystem":true,"gitops_reconciliation":false,"managed_saas_offering":true}` |
| integrations.count | 60 | 20 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon SNS"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"incident.io"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Mattermost"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Pushover"},{"name":"Rocket.Chat"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"VictorOps"},{"name":"Webex"},{"name":"WeChat"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"WeChat Work","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Blackbox Exporter","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Consul","native":true,"category":"service_discovery","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Graphite","native":true,"category":"metrics_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Memcached","native":true,"category":"metrics_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MySQL","native":true,"category":"metrics_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Node Exporter","native":true,"category":"metrics_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"StatsD","native":true,"category":"metrics_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Grafana Mimir","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Thanos","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"VictoriaMetrics","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Splunk","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"New Relic","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Sysdig Monitor","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"SignalFx","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Wavefront","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Instana","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"InfluxDB","category":"database"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","category":"database"},{"name":"CrateDB","category":"database"},{"name":"M3DB","category":"database"},{"name":"GreptimeDB","category":"database"},{"name":"OpenTSDB","category":"database"},{"name":"Cortex","category":"storage"},{"name":"AWS Timestream","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure Data Explorer","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google BigQuery","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud Spanner","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AppOptics","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Kafka","category":"messaging"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Ansible Tower","category":"automation"},{"name":"All Quiet","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Rootly","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Parny","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Better Uptime","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Asana","category":"collaboration"},{"name":"Notion","category":"collaboration"},{"name":"Matrix","category":"chat"},{"name":"Zulip","category":"chat"},{"name":"AWS SNS","category":"notifications"},{"name":"Phabricator","category":"project_management"},{"name":"NetBox","category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Fastly","category":"cdn"},{"name":"NS1","category":"dns"},{"name":"ElastiCache","category":"cloud"},{"name":"OpenObserve","category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Mezmo","category":"logging"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"CloudFormation"},{"name":"Azure Resource Manager"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"container","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"vcs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack","native":false,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Backstage","native":true,"category":"devops","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"npm","native":false,"category":"package_manager","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PyPI","native":false,"category":"package_manager","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"NuGet","native":false,"category":"package_manager","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Helm","native":true,"category":"cloud-native"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Azure Key Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"1Password","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"MongoDB","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"Snowflake","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"GitHub Actions","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"GitLab Pipelines","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"Jenkins","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"CircleCI","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"Atlassian Bitbucket","native":true,"category":"ci-cd"},{"name":"External Secrets Operator","native":true,"category":"secrets"},{"name":"Secrets Store CSI Driver","native":true,"category":"secrets"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | Go |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prometheus.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T16:35:31.505Z"}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Team Edition","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Metered pricing per resource-hour and deployment-minute. Contact sales for bulk discounts on annual commitments over $20,000.","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pricing-calculator-blog/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:12:11.575Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | quote |
| pricing.price_level | free | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | 5 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 8.1 | 7.1 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/security/ | https://www.pulumi.com/tutorials/eval-compliance-terraform/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":7,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fprometheus&per_page=100","last_12m":4,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40pulumi%2Fpulumi&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-20T00:36:06.227Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*