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Sentry vs telescope
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars, 4,959 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped yesterday. telescope has 5,235 stars, 673 forks, 16 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. Sentry leads on adoption by 773% (45,704 vs 5,235 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 | ★ 46K | ★ 5.2K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Python | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.0K | ⑂ 673 |
| 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 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
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 telescope
Introduction Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for the Laravel framework. Telescope provides insight into the requests coming into your application, exceptions, log entries, database queries, queued jobs, mail, notifications, cache operations, scheduled tasks, variable dumps and more. Telescope makes a wonderful companion to your local Laravel development environment. Official Documentation Documentation for Telescope can be found on the Laravel website. Contributing Thank you for considering contributing to Telescope! The contribution guide can be found in the Laravel documentation. Code of…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or telescope more popular?
Sentry has 45,704 GitHub stars and telescope has 5,235. 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 (45,704 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose telescope if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.