Prometheus vs Zeppelin
Prometheus and Zeppelin are both database software. Prometheus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 67k GitHub stars. Zeppelin is open source under Apache-2.0, with 6.7k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Prometheus when
- You run services or Kubernetes and need metrics and alerting with the de facto standard toolset.
- Pick Zeppelin when
- Your team works mainly with Spark or Flink and wants shared notebooks tied to those engines.
Side by side
A monitoring system and time-series database that scrapes metrics from services, queries them with PromQL and sends alerts.
A web-based notebook for interactive data analytics with SQL, Scala, Python and Spark, producing shareable charts and documents.
Long-term storage and high availability need extra components such as Thanos or Mimir.
Jupyter has far more momentum, and Zeppelin's releases and community have slowed.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server (both)
Go
Java, TypeScript and Spark
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive) (both)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
67k GitHub stars
6.7k GitHub stars
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release v3.15.1.
Established: started 11 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.