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.
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"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."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"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."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The price could be lowered."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
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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