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Sentry vs litter
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars, 4,959 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped yesterday. litter has 1,655 stars, 61 forks, 17 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. Sentry leads on adoption by 2,662% (45,704 vs 1,655 stars). Sentry is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence; litter is written in Go under MIT. Sentry has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, litter 4%. 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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Side by side
| Sentry | litter | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 1.7K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Python | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-04 | 2026-05-04 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.0K | ⑂ 61 |
| 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 litter if
- You want the litter feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and litter 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 litter
Litter Litter is a pretty printer library for Go data structures to aid in debugging and testing. Litter is provided by Sanity: The Headless CMS Construction Kit Litter named for the fact that it outputs literals , which you litter your output with. As a side benefit, all Litter output is syntactically correct Go. You can use Litter to emit data during debug, and it's also really nice for "snapshot data" in unit tests, since it produces consistent, sorted output. Litter was inspired by Spew, but focuses on terseness and readability. Basic example This: will output: Use in tests Litter is a great alternative to…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or litter more popular?
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars and litter has 1,655. Sentry has the larger community by that measure.
Are Sentry and litter free?
Both are open source. Sentry has no licence declared in this registry, and litter is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Sentry and litter?
Sentry is written in Python and litter 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 litter?
Choose Sentry if you want the larger community (45,704 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose litter if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.