Jaeger vs Sentry Performance

Jaeger is a free, open-source distributed tracing platform for monitoring complex systems and investigating performance problems. It helps teams locate bottlenecks, examine root causes, and map dependencies between services. Jaeger receives OpenTelemetry Protocol data and accepts Zipkin spans over HTTP in Thrift, JSON v1/v2, and Protobuf formats. Its UI includes System Architecture and Deep Dependency Graph views, while Service Performance Monitoring turns traces into aggregate metrics and time-series charts. Sampling supports head-based configurations, including centralized static or adaptive settings, and tail-based sampling. Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch are supported distributed storage backends; ClickHouse is experimental behind a feature gate. Jaeger v2 ships as binaries and container images, with an all-in-one mode using transient in-memory storage. It is self-hosted, so infrastructure determines capacity and scale. Jaeger v1 reached end of life on December 31, 2025.

Sentry Performance is an application performance monitoring service for developers diagnosing bottlenecks in applications and distributed systems. It links performance problems with related errors, transactions, and code details to help teams assess user impact and investigate issues. Trace views and code context can help locate slow database queries, API calls, and associated code lines. Distributed tracing follows requests across services to help identify where latency or errors arise. Teams can prioritize performance issues by user impact and create custom metrics and alerts. Sentry lists integrations with GitHub, Jira, Slack, GitLab, Linear, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Datadog, and Vercel, and supports OpenTelemetry. Its cloud service is hosted on Google Cloud Platform with a multi-tenant architecture; a self-hosted option is available for teams that need data in their own infrastructure. Trace retention is 90 days. The Developer plan costs nothing and has monthly usage quotas. Paid plans start at $26/mo; a free trial is available for Business, but not Team. Sentry makes its SOC 2 Type 2 report and ISO 27001 certificate available through user accounts or by request.