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Sentry vs eliot
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars, 4,959 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped yesterday. eliot has 1,189 stars, 75 forks, 120 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. Sentry leads on adoption by 3,744% (45,704 vs 1,189 stars). Sentry is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence; eliot is written in Python under Apache-2.0. Sentry has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, eliot 6%. Sentry was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
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 | eliot | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Python | Python |
| Last push | 2026-11-04 | 2026-05-07 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.0K | ⑂ 75 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Sentry if
- You weight community size — 46K 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 eliot if
- You want the eliot 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 eliot fits your workflow better
About Sentry
Users and logs provide clues. Sentry provides answers. What's Sentry? Sentry is the debugging platform that helps every developer detect, trace, and fix issues. Code breaks, fix it faster. Official Sentry SDKs JavaScript Electron React Native Python Ruby PHP Laravel Go Rust Java/Kotlin Objective C/Swift C\ /F\ C/C++ Dart/Flutter Perl Clojure Elixir Unity Unreal Engine Godot Engine PowerShell Resources Documentation Discussions (Bugs, feature requests, general questions) Discord Contributing Bug Tracker Code Transifex (Translate Sentry\!)
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About eliot
Eliot: Logging that tells you why it happened ================================================ Python's built in logging and other similar systems output a stream of factoids: they're interesting, but you can't really tell what's going on. Why is your application slow? What caused this code path to be chosen? Why did this error happen? Standard logging can't answer these questions. But with a better model you could understand what and why things happened in your application. You could pinpoint performance bottlenecks, you could understand what happened when, who called what. That is what Eliot does. eliot is a…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or eliot more popular?
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars and eliot has 1,189. Sentry has the larger community by that measure.
Are Sentry and eliot free?
Both are open source. Sentry has no licence declared in this registry, and eliot is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Sentry and eliot?
Sentry is written in Python and eliot 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 eliot?
Choose Sentry if you want the larger community (45,704 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose eliot if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.