Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Rollbar vs Sentry: which is more reliable? (2026)
Rollbar is more reliable than Sentry, scoring 96.1 vs 54.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Rollbar reported 3 incidents and Sentry reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.98% and 98.93% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Rollbar | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 96.1 | 54.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #1 | #14 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.98% | 98.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 15 |
| Avg time to resolve | 37m | 2h 21m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Rollbar and Sentry differ
- Sentry reported 7.7× as many incidents as Rollbar over the last 90 days (23 vs 3).
- Sentry had 15 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Rollbar.
- Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 2h 21m for Sentry (3.8× quicker).
- Rollbar's longest outage on record lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026); Sentry's lasted 6h 18m (Aug 27, 2026).
90-day uptime
Rollbar
Sentry
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Rollbar incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com)
- MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com) +1 more
- MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline +1 more
Recent Sentry incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 21m
Increased latency processing integration webhooks
Affected: Slack, Integration Pipeline
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1h
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 18m
- Major outageOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 53m
- Partial outageOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 2h 34m
- Major outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 42m
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- Checkly · #3 · 99.96% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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