We performed a comparison between Grafana 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: Grafana offers customization and visually pleasing graphs, integration with various tools, and serves multiple purposes. Its open source nature, better customer support, straightforward setup process, and flexible licensing model give it an edge over Sentry and makes it the preferred solution. Although Sentry is also appreciated for its accuracy, error management, and security features.
"It has good stability."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"The price could be lowered."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". 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". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. Sentry report.
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