Rollbar vs Sentry
Rollbar and Sentry are both error tracking software. Rollbar is a commercial product from Rollbar. Sentry is a commercial product from Functional Software, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Rollbar when
- A team wants a hosted error tracker focused on errors and deploys rather than full observability, with a free plan to start.
- Pick Sentry when
- Almost any software team that ships code to users and wants to see errors as they happen, with SDKs for most languages.
Side by side
Collects and groups application errors in real time, links them to deploys, and alerts the team.
Captures exceptions and crashes from web, mobile and backend apps with stack traces and context, and adds performance tracing and session replay.
Overlaps heavily with Sentry, which has a larger ecosystem; compare before committing.
Event-based pricing can climb on busy apps, and self-hosting the open version is a heavy stack of services.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Not published
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Kafka
Closed source, sold by Rollbar
Closed source, sold by Functional Software, Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own (both)
Other comparisons
More error tracking tools
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.