We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Sentry based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: After analyzing user feedback, it can be concluded that Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to Sentry. Azure Monitor stands out due to its extensive range of features, such as integration with Visual Studio, Power BI, and additional Azure services. The ease of setup, stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness are also highly appreciated. Although Sentry is acknowledged for its accuracy and compatibility with multiple tools, Azure Monitor offers a more comprehensive and adaptable solution for monitoring and resolving issues with cloud resources.
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"The price could be lowered."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sentry writes "An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Sentry is most compared with Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Datadog. See our Azure Monitor vs. Sentry report.
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