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 excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The solution can scale well."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure 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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The product performs well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The price could be lowered."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
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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