Grafana vs Sentry

Grafana and Sentry are both listed under Observability in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.

It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.

Grafana, Sentry compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
	Grafana	Sentry
Category	Observability	Observability
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Open source	Yes	Yes
GitHub stars	77.6K	45.7K
Key features	Rich visualization and dashboard creation Support for multiple data sources Advanced alerting and notification system Templating and variables User and team management Plugin ecosystem and extensibility Annotation and event correlation Mobile-friendly responsive design	Real-time error tracking and alerting Performance monitoring and profiling Release health and deployment tracking Source map and stack trace analysis Custom dashboards and metrics Integration with development workflows Team collaboration and issue assignment Mobile and desktop crash reporting
Use cases	Infrastructure and application monitoring Business intelligence dashboards IoT and sensor data visualization DevOps metrics and KPIs Real-time analytics Log analysis and correlation Performance monitoring Custom metrics visualization	Application error monitoring Performance optimization Release and deployment tracking Developer productivity improvement Customer experience monitoring Bug prioritization and triage Code quality improvement Post-deployment monitoring
Integrations	Prometheus InfluxDB Elasticsearch MySQL PostgreSQL AWS CloudWatch	React Vue Angular Node.js Python Java GitHub Slack
Tags	visualization dashboards metrics monitoring alerting analytics	error-tracking performance-monitoring crash-reporting debugging real-time
Links	Website (opens in a new tab) GitHub (opens in a new tab) Docs (opens in a new tab)	Website (opens in a new tab) GitHub (opens in a new tab) Docs (opens in a new tab)

What each one is

Grafana

Open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform

Grafana is the open-source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

Full Grafana listing

Sentry

Application monitoring and error tracking platform

Sentry is an error tracking and performance monitoring platform that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. It provides full visibility into your code's health, with rich context and actionable insights to help you identify and resolve issues quickly.

Full Sentry listing

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