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Agents tracked: 378 Downloads (7d): 244M down 5.7% GitHub stars: 8.4M VS Code installs: 151M Releases (7d): 407 Agent status: 1 with issues Updated Oct 10, 2026

prom-client

Prometheus client library for instrumenting Node.js applications with metrics.

Logging, monitoring and analytics npm Apache-2.0

Used in agent projects
35
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in logging, monitoring and analytics
#20 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
10M
npm, last 7 days, prom-client
GitHub stars
3,496
last push Sep 17, 2026

How prom-client is used

prom-client is a dependency in 35 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #20 of 29 in logging, monitoring and analytics. The most used alternative there is Vercel Analytics. Projects that use it most often also use tsx (57.1%), Vitest (54.3%), Zod (60.0%).

Often used with prom-client

tsx57.1% of prom-client projects · 5.7× more than average
Vitest54.3% of prom-client projects · 4.4× more than average
Zod60.0% of prom-client projects · 3.5× more than average
ts-node51.4% of prom-client projects · 7.5× more than average
ws51.4% of prom-client projects · 22.8× more than average
Express48.6% of prom-client projects · 7.5× more than average
pino-pretty42.9% of prom-client projects · 24.4× more than average
OpenTelemetry40.0% of prom-client projects · 65.1× more than average

By coding agent

Claude Code0.5% of projects set up for it
GitHub Copilot0.5% of projects set up for it
Cursor0.3% of projects set up for it

Share of public repos configured for each agent that list prom-client as a dependency.

Install

Packagenpm install prom-client
Main stacksTypeScript / JavaScript (22), Next.js (8), Python (3), .NET (2)
Example projectsblockscout/frontend, nirholas/universal-crypto-mcp, Silin144/claude-code, nilupulk/claude-code-free, open-mid/8004-facilitator

Alternatives to prom-client

All logging, monitoring and analytics

Tool Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
Vercel Analytics npm
Real-time web analytics SDK for tracking traffic and user behavior.
422 (3.3%) 8.3M 517 MIT
pino-pretty npm
Pretty-printer for Pino JSON logs to make terminal output human-readable.
223 (1.8%) 24.6M 1,706 MIT
Web Vitals npm
Measure Core Web Vitals and other key performance metrics in JavaScript.
222 (1.7%) 48.7M 8,640 Apache-2.0
Vercel Speed Insights npm
Measure web performance metrics and get recommendations for improvement.
167 (1.3%) 5.6M 116 Apache-2.0
psutil pypi
Cross-platform library for retrieving process and system monitoring information.
144 (1.1%) 74.7M 11.3K BSD-3-Clause
Pino npm
Ultra-fast JSON logger for Node.js with minimal overhead.
129 (1.0%) 53.3M 18.2K MIT
Sentry for Next.js npm
Official Sentry SDK for error tracking and performance monitoring in Next.js apps.
119 (0.9%) 11.7M 8,756 MIT
Loguru pypi
Simplified Python logging library with intuitive API and structured logging.
108 (0.9%) 16.4M 24.1K —
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