Best Amazon Managed Prometheus
alternative for metrics at scale.
AMP bills per sample, slows at high cardinality, leaves you running Grafana.Oodle AI replaces Prometheus and Grafana: no limits, about 50% lower cost.
“It’s the best way to do observability. I’m actually surprised that you get such good observability at a cheaper cost than the native AWS and GCP capabilities.”
Anuj MittalFounding Engineer, WisdomAI
Why are teams choosing Oodle AI over Amazon Managed Prometheus?
Complete
- Grafana UI included, not a separate AWS service
- Logs, metrics, and traces in one platform
- PromQL, dashboards, and alerts work unchanged
Built for scale
- No cardinality limits or pre-aggregation tricks
- Dashboards stay fast during incident traffic
- Queries under a second at p99
Cost-efficient
- About 50% lower cost than AMP
- No per-sample or per-user meters
- $2 per 1,000 active time series per month, all-in
Oodle AI vs Amazon Managed Prometheus, feature by feature
AMP removes the servers but keeps the sharp edges: per-sample pricing, cardinality limits, and a separate Grafana bill are what send teams looking for AMP alternatives.
Oodle AI
Amazon Managed PrometheusSee the difference on your own metrics.
Try the PlaygroundAmazon Managed Prometheus pricing vs Oodle AI
One flat metric price versus per-sample billing across separate AWS services.
| Component | Oodle AI | Amazon Managed Prometheus |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics | $2 / 1K series / mo | $0.90 / 10M samples |
| Retention | 30d (up to 1 year) | $0.03 / GB / mo |
| Queries | Unlimited, no query meter | $0.10 / 1B samples |
| Dashboards | Grafana UI included | Amazon Managed Grafana |
| Alerting | Built-in alerting | Via SNS |
| Users | Unlimited seats | AMG: $9 editor / $5 viewer |
Oodle AI figures are from oodle.ai/pricing (metrics). AMP and Amazon Managed Grafana figures are AWS public pricing, US East first tiers (Jul 2026).
What to look for in an Amazon Managed Prometheus alternative
Four dimensions separate a real replacement from a lateral move. Here’s where each side lands.
Scalability & performance
AMP applies workspace quotas you request increases for, and heavy PromQL slows at high cardinality, exactly when incident dashboards refresh hardest. Judge a platform at your worst cardinality, not the average.
No cardinality limits; PromQL answers sub-second p99, held during spikesWorkspace quotas to plan around; teams pre-aggregate metrics to stay under limitsIntegration capabilities
AMP is a backend only: dashboards require Amazon Managed Grafana, and Alertmanager routes through SNS. Count the services you wire together before a metric reaches a human.
remote_write in; Grafana UI, dashboards, and Slack/PagerDuty alerting built inNeeds Amazon Managed Grafana for dashboards; alerts route through SNSCost structure
AMP bills per sample ingested ($0.90 per 10 million on the first tier), per query sample processed, and per Grafana seat. Per-sample pricing means every new service or scrape raises the bill.
Flat $2 per 1,000 active time series per month; queries and Grafana includedThree meters: samples in, query samples processed, and Grafana seatsEase of use
A metrics stack assembled from three AWS services (AMP, Managed Grafana, SNS/IAM wiring) is setup work before the first dashboard renders. The alternative should be usable on day one.
One platform: import dashboards and alerts in one click, PromQL unchangedAssembly required: AMP + Managed Grafana + IAM and SNS wiring per workspaceSee it in the product
Everything you run alongside Amazon Managed Prometheus, built in: dashboard and alert migration, AI-built panels, and an eBPF service graph.
One-Click Dashboard Migration
- Import existing Grafana dashboards with one click
- Panels, variables, and layout carried over
- No manual rebuild, no PromQL rewrites
One-Click Alert Migration
- Import your Alertmanager rules in one click
- Routing and thresholds preserved
- Context-aware alerting layered on top
Create Dashboards with AI
- Describe what you want to see in plain English
- Oodle AI writes the PromQL and builds the panels
- Refine and save in seconds
eBPF Service Graph
- Auto-mapped service dependencies, no instrumentation
- Health, CPU, memory, error rate, and p95 latency per service
- Spot the failing service at a glance
Trusted by teams like yours
“We’ve run customer instances on AWS, Azure, and GCP, and it is painful to go to individual cloud consoles. Oodle helps with the multi cloud use case by offering a single pane of glass.”
Guilherme MenezesCo-founder and Chief Architect, WisdomAI
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Amazon Managed Prometheus alternative?
Oodle AI is the managed alternative teams move to when Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) starts to bite on per-sample pricing and cardinality limits. It is 100% PromQL-compatible via remote_write, includes the Grafana UI instead of billing it as a second AWS service, has no cardinality limits, and costs a flat $2 per 1,000 active time series per month, typically about 50% less overall.
Why is Amazon Managed Prometheus so expensive?
Because three meters run at once: samples ingested (from $0.90 per 10 million on the first tier), query samples processed, and Amazon Managed Grafana seats at $9 per editor. Per-sample pricing means a new service launch or a churn spike can double the bill overnight. Oodle AI prices one flat meter: $2 per 1,000 active time series per month.
Do we keep PromQL, our dashboards, and alert rules?
Yes. Oodle AI is 100% PromQL-compatible, imports Grafana dashboards directly, and recreates alert rules with context-aware alerting. Your team’s muscle memory carries over on day one.
How do I migrate from Amazon Managed Prometheus to Oodle AI?
Three steps. Add Oodle AI as a remote_write target alongside AMP; no exporter or application changes (setup guides). Import dashboards and verify side by side. Then cut over and drop the AMP workspace. Most teams connect in 2-3 hours and validate within a day or two.
How does Oodle AI compare with other AMP alternatives?
Self-hosting Prometheus trades the AWS bill for Thanos and SRE time (see the self-hosted comparison). Grafana Mimir scales well but is another distributed system to run (see the Mimir comparison). Oodle AI is the managed drop-in with the Grafana UI included and one flat price.