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."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"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."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"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."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"The price could be lowered."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 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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