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 solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It is an efficient solution."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"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."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"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."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The price could be lowered."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"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."
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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