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 a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"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."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"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 product performs well."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"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."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"The DSL could be improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"The price could be lowered."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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."
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.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.