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 has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"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."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"Its stability could be even better."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"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."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"The price could be lowered."
"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."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
Prometheus is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 16 reviews while Sentry is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.0, while Sentry is rated 8.4. 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 AppDynamics, whereas Sentry is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and AWS X-Ray. See our Prometheus vs. Sentry report.
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