# Sentry 31 Hacker News commenters recommended Sentry and 30 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Error monitoring service that alerts on new issues with commit context; people like it for the self-hosted option and integrations. Self-hosting is hard to install and maintain. ## Why people recommend it - Alerts on new issues with useful context (2 comments): "Sentry is great at alerting me to new issues and it also has other features like JS session replays that are nice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041865)) "I've found it very useful when those errors include context about which commit introduced the issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285951)) - Self-hosted version works well and is supported (4 comments): "the self-hosted docker-compose version of sentry works fine including proper releases and support by the sentry team" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286523)) "self hosting Sentry has been the most liberating feeling in a long while" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292860)) "We have 10s of thousands of customers that run Sentry self-hosted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294404)) - Integrates with other tools and MCP (6 comments): "having Claude hitting the Sentry APIs directly and getting the info it needs, whether async or not" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058461)) "There are decent MCP integrations with sentry and other tools that can be useful for validation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747627)) "It reads the Sentry MCP, compare the errors to the app source code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561690)) ## What people warn about - Hard to install and maintain (3 comments): "It was easier for me to rebuild parts of it for my own use than to self-host it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286446)) "deploying it is such a pain in the ass that no one bothers to really do this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286197)) "self-hosted Sentry, which is notoriously hard to install and maintain" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864555)) - Collects user data, privacy concerns (5 comments): "I wish Sentry would have separate infra for "operating on data collected by Sentry" and "submit every mouse click to Sentry"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897237)) "You use other proprietary services that spy on your customers, like Sentry and Firebase, because privacy costs money." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815073)) "I don't want to send customer conversations and agent thoughts to a giant multi-tenant borg SaaS database" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177043)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Grafana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafana.md): 71 recommend - [Prometheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prometheus.md): 48 recommend - [Datadog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datadog.md): 40 recommend - [SigNoz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/signoz.md): 19 recommend - [Superlog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superlog.md): 15 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://sentry.io/welcome/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Sentry", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sentry/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).