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's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"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."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"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."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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 requires improvement on the query side."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"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."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"The price could be lowered."
"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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