GCP Managed Service For Prometheus vs. Levitate

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus(GMP) is Google Cloud's fully managed, multi-cloud, cross-project solution for Prometheus metrics.

In this article, we will see key differences between Levitate and Google Managed Prometheus, which can help you choose a managed Prometheus service on Google Cloud.

Levitate

Levitate is a managed time series data warehouse built to mitigate the problems faced by time series databases — of high cardinality, concurrent access, and long-term retention while providing highly available storage, faster queries, and proactive alerting. It's a complete monitoring solution.

Cost Comparison

Levitate is more efficient and economical than Google Managed Prometheus with its Bring Your Own Cloud(BYOC) model.

In the BYOC model, the whole Levitate platform is deployed in the customer's GCP cloud, allowing you to utilize your GCP credits, arresting egress costs, and ensuring data stays within your infrastructure's proximity.

The Last9 team will manage the platform and maintain the SLAs and performance guarantees. We charge a daily fee proportional to the capacity under management. Customers incur additional charges for the cloud resources paid directly to Google Cloud.

Levitate is up to 30X cost-efficient compared with Google Managed Prometheus. This is possible because of warehousing capabilities such as data tiering, streaming aggregations, and cardinality controls, making it a much superior choice to Google Managed Prometheus.

Schedule a demo to know more about how Levitate is preferred choice for managed Prometheus on Google Cloud.

Additionally, Levitate comes with a hosted Grafana instance and a fully functional Alert Manager. In the case of GMP, you have to run Grafana and Alert Manager separately, which incurs additional costs and operational overhead. There are no additional costs for visualization and alerting in the case of Levitate.

Google Cloud Marketplace

Levitate can be purchased directly from Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing ease of procurement. Additional Cloud discounts such as EDP become applicable. This also allows for seamless procurement and utilization of existing cloud credits, almost nullifying the infra cost used to run Levitate in your infrastructure under the BYOC model.

High Cardinality

Levitate performs faster with High Cardinality data. When production services are down, you need fast answers. The process of ingesting new data takes valuable minutes, and loading the results of a complex query can potentially consume hours. At Last9, we firmly believe that your observability tool’s performance and budget should not be compromised when sifting through high-cardinality data.

With Levitate, you get deep visibility and early warnings about cardinality explosion before it happens. Control data growth with streaming aggregations and slash the operational overhead of expensive queries.

Levitate vs. Google Managed Prometheus - Detailed Comparison