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 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."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"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 solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The product performs well."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"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."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"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."
"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."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
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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