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Sentry vs telescope
Sentry has 44,806 GitHub stars, 4,857 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped today. telescope has 5,229 stars, 672 forks, 16 open issues and last shipped 11 days ago. Sentry leads on adoption by 757% (44,806 vs 5,229 stars). Sentry is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence; telescope is written in PHP under MIT. Sentry has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, telescope 13%. Sentry was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (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 | telescope | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 45K | ★ 5.2K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Python | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-09 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.9K | ⑂ 672 |
| 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 telescope if
- You want the telescope feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and telescope 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 telescope
Laravel Telescope is an open source debug assistant for the Laravel framework that surfaces the requests, exceptions, log entries, database queries, queued jobs, mail, notifications, cache operations, scheduled tasks and variable dumps passing through an application, and it is built for Laravel developers who need that visibility while working on an application.
read the full telescope overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or telescope more popular?
Sentry has 44,806 GitHub stars and telescope has 5,229. Sentry has the larger community by that measure.
Are Sentry and telescope free?
Both are open source. Sentry has no licence declared in this registry, and telescope is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Sentry and telescope?
Sentry is written in Python and telescope in PHP. 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 telescope?
Choose Sentry if you want the larger community (44,806 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose telescope if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.