We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Sentry based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is the preferred solution over Sentry. Users find Prometheus' initial setup straightforward and user-friendly. Prometheus is highly praised for its wide array of APIs and libraries, as well as its ability to integrate with different programming languages seamlessly. Users also value its monitoring capabilities. They appreciate the boundless opportunities and customization choices provided by Prometheus. Prometheus is considered a cost-effective option as it does not entail setup expenses or licensing fees.
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The product performs well."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"Its stability could be even better."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The price could be lowered."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sentry writes "An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray and ITRS Geneos, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and Dynatrace. See our Prometheus vs. Sentry report.
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