Prometheus vs Sentry

Prometheus 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.

Prometheus, Sentry compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
	Prometheus	Sentry
Category	Observability	Observability
Pricing model	Open Source	Freemium
Open source	Yes	Yes
GitHub stars	66.9K	45.7K
Key features	Multi-dimensional time series data model PromQL query language Pull-based metrics collection Service discovery integration Alerting with Alertmanager Efficient storage and compression Rich ecosystem of exporters Grafana integration for visualization	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 monitoring Application performance monitoring Kubernetes cluster monitoring Microservices observability DevOps metrics collection SRE and reliability engineering Custom business metrics Alert and incident management	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	Kubernetes Docker Grafana Alertmanager Jaeger Node Exporter	React Vue Angular Node.js Python Java GitHub Slack
Tags	metrics time-series monitoring alerting open-source kubernetes	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

Prometheus

Open-source monitoring system with time series database

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It collects and stores metrics as time series data, providing a multidimensional data model, flexible query language, and efficient storage.

Full Prometheus 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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