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Reflex vs Prometheus
Prometheus is the de facto metrics database for cloud-native teams. Reflex is for operators who want PHP-FPM, nginx, queue, and deploy incidents resolved automatically — without maintaining scrape configs, Alertmanager, and repair scripts.
| Topic | Reflex | Prometheus |
|---|---|---|
| Total cost of ownership (typical stack) | One subscription covers server operations, Git-driven deploys with health gating and rollback where your tier allows, uptime-style checks, and Brain-led remediation — see Pricing for current tiers. | Teams often pay for a server panel, separate deploy automation, monitoring/alerting, and ad-hoc incident tooling — each with its own renewal, integration work, and on-call runbook. |
| Primary focus | End-to-end detect → decide → repair with audit trails | Time-series metrics and PromQL — remediation is external |
| Laravel/PHP ergonomics | Playbooks for FPM, Horizon, OOM, and deploy regressions out of the box | Generic exporters — you encode domain knowledge in rules |
| Team size fit | Solo to agency fleets without a dedicated observability engineer | Best with SRE time to tune cardinality and alert noise |
| When Prometheus fits | — | Kubernetes estates with standardized exporters and SRE on-call |
| When Reflex fits | BYOS Linux servers where paging humans for every FPM spike is unsustainable | — |
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