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 highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"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 provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"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 query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"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."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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."
"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."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
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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