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 an efficient solution."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"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."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"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 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 product must improve its documentation."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"The price could be lowered."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"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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