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Sentry vs django-prometheus
Sentry has 44,806 GitHub stars, 4,857 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped today. django-prometheus has 1,667 stars, 265 forks, 101 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Sentry leads on adoption by 2,588% (44,806 vs 1,667 stars). Sentry is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence; django-prometheus is written in Python under Apache-2.0. Sentry has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, django-prometheus 16%. Sentry was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (django, monitoring), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Sentry | django-prometheus | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 45K | ★ 1.7K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Python | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.9K | ⑂ 265 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Sentry if
- You weight community size — 45K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick django-prometheus if
- You want the django-prometheus feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and django-prometheus fits your workflow better
About Sentry
Sentry is an open source debugging platform for detecting, tracing, and fixing software issues in real time. It lives in the developer infrastructure ecosystem and provides error tracking and performance monitoring across languages, frameworks, and runtime environments.
read the full Sentry overview →
About django-prometheus
django prometheus is an Apache 2.0 Python library that exports Django monitoring metrics — HTTP requests and responses, database access through the Django ORM, and cache access — in a format Prometheus can scrape, built for Django teams that run Prometheus based observability on their own infrastructure.
read the full django-prometheus overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or django-prometheus more popular?
Sentry has 44,806 GitHub stars and django-prometheus has 1,667. Sentry has the larger community by that measure.
Are Sentry and django-prometheus free?
Both are open source. Sentry has no licence declared in this registry, and django-prometheus is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Sentry and django-prometheus?
Sentry is written in Python and django-prometheus in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Sentry or django-prometheus?
Choose Sentry if you want the larger community (44,806 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose django-prometheus if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.