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Sentry vs lazyjournal
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars, 4,959 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped today. lazyjournal has 1,437 stars, 35 forks, 9 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Sentry leads on adoption by 3,081% (45,704 vs 1,437 stars). Sentry is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence; lazyjournal is written in Go under MIT. Sentry has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, lazyjournal 2%. 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 | lazyjournal | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 1.4K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Python | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-03 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.0K | ⑂ 35 |
| 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 lazyjournal if
- You want the lazyjournal feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and lazyjournal 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 lazyjournal
Terminal user interface for viewing logs from journald , auditd , file system, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks and Kubernetes pods with support for log highlighting and several filtering modes. Written in Go with the awesome gocui (fork gocui) library. This tool is inspired by and made with love for LazyDocker and LazyGit. It is also included in Awesome Go, Awesome TUIs and Awesome Docker, check out other useful projects on the repository pages. [!NOTE] You can try it out on the Killercoda playground. Features Simple installation, to run download one executable file without dependencies and…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or lazyjournal more popular?
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars and lazyjournal has 1,437. Sentry has the larger community by that measure.
Are Sentry and lazyjournal free?
Both are open source. Sentry has no licence declared in this registry, and lazyjournal is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Sentry and lazyjournal?
Sentry is written in Python and lazyjournal in Go. 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 lazyjournal?
Choose Sentry if you want the larger community (45,704 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose lazyjournal if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.