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.
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The scalability must be improved."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"The DSL could be improved."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"The price could be lowered."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"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."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
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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