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 dashboard is very valuable."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The product performs well."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Its stability could be even better."
"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."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The scalability must be improved."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"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."
Prometheus is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.2, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "Offers a stand-alone, user-friendly process with great features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sentry writes "A stable alert management application with straightforward and neat documentation". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, New Relic, Datadog and AWS X-Ray. See our Prometheus vs. Sentry report.
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