--- title: Why I gave up on self-hosted Sentry | daily.dev description: Self-hosting Sentry has become increasingly difficult due to high hardware requirements, complex setup procedures, and significant maintenance burdens. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry-4z2le3kt2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why I gave up on self-hosted Sentry | daily.dev og:description: Self-hosting Sentry has become increasingly difficult due to high hardware requirements, complex setup procedures, and significant maintenance burdens. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry-4z2le3kt2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4Z2le3KT2.png og:image:alt: Why I gave up on self-hosted Sentry og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why I gave up on self-hosted Sentry **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 33 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Self-hosting Sentry has become increasingly difficult due to high hardware requirements, complex setup procedures, and significant maintenance burdens. The author, initially enthusiastic about Sentry, ultimately decided it was not worth the trouble and created a simpler, more lightweight alternative for those in similar situations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sunnyanwit** · 2 upvotes > I think they dont want you to do self-host. but give option so some dev see and think they are not evil org and support them but when you start self hosting you get the pain **@ludndev** · 0 upvotes > Few days ago, I tried (again) and I gave up. **@look4regev** · 0 upvotes > The article doesn't provide real-world production experience as it may imply. It's more focused on covering the initial setup and their requirements. We are running production load on a Sentry on-prem for more than 2 years. Yes, it is time consuming, but it serves us well. No doubt the cloud service is better and easier. **@retrodev** · 0 upvotes > This is interesting as I've had a different experience. I run Sentry in a Proxmox container with 16GB of RAM and 4 cores (their minimum requirements), and it runs perfectly fine. Initial setup was pretty simple too as it mainly comes down to running a single script. I run it by myself and use it for production monitoring. > > The post is from September last year, seems very nitpicky, and references things that don't exist anymore. It reads more like the writer is attacking Sentry in order to promote their own product. **@budosen** · 0 upvotes > somehow i agree with most part of the article but i think sentry is good for some specific needs. There is also another option with less config or services like glitchtip and some other tools. > > But 1 thing that absolutely great is their community at github. > > Thank you for sharing btw! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry-4z2le3kt2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why I gave up on self-hosted Sentry","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry-4z2le3kt2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry-4z2le3kt2"},"datePublished":"2025-04-18T10:03:29.206Z","dateModified":"2025-04-18T10:03:41.831Z","description":"Self-hosting Sentry has become increasingly difficult due to high hardware requirements, complex setup procedures, and significant maintenance burdens. 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It’s more focused on covering the initial setup and their requirements. We are running production load on a Sentry on-prem for more than 2 years. Yes, it is time consuming, but it serves us well. No doubt the cloud service is better and easier.","datePublished":"2025-05-12T11:34:35.570Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/4Z2le3KT2#c-lxDOmXj35","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Regev Golan","url":"https://daily.dev/look4regev","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/4006829?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"This is interesting as I’ve had a different experience. I run Sentry in a Proxmox container with 16GB of RAM and 4 cores (their minimum requirements), and it runs perfectly fine. Initial setup was pretty simple too as it mainly comes down to running a single script. I run it by myself and use it for production monitoring.\nThe post is from September last year, seems very nitpicky, and references things that don’t exist anymore. 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