We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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: Dynatrace has more extensive features, including real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring. Dynatrace also has superior AI capabilities, and better topology visualization with its Kubernetes module. Sentry is user-friendly and has accurate error management, but users suggest it needs more comprehensive tracking and analytics capabilities, better integration, and lower pricing. Customer service and support quality information for Sentry are limited. Overall, Dynatrace offers more value for its price and has received higher user ratings.
"It prevents (together with performance testing) production performance issues which usually result in customer complaints or system downtime."
"We have used Dynatrace in our performance testing environments to get ahead of issues before they make it into production."
"The way it shows a problem on the dashboard is pretty good."
"I like the auto email alerting feature the most, as it is set up based on the application error or condition."
"With the latest version, the AI engine highlights the root causes automatically."
"The solution is multi-tenant and based in Big data technology."
"We started monitoring our VMware hypervisors and that gave us valuable system specific metrics into our virtual environments."
"Customers are looking at our site, every second, constantly. They're able to do that because, if for some reason it goes down, I can instantly get it back up, because I know what needs to be fixed. In the past, before having the tool, we were being notified by the brand, or the brand manager, "Hey, customers are complaining that our site is down." And then there was me, as a developer, trying to track down what was causing this issue. With Dynatrace, it's right there in front of me, it's a JavaScript error, or something I can narrow down."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"It needs a better way to figure out how to dig deeper into the details, e.g., sometimes we have to wade through multiple logs, etc."
"We would like to see more external tool integration, which is critical for us."
"The analytics feature provides us some information, but is limited for now. We want to see how we can consume the data further down and have analytics guys look at the datacenter information."
"If there was something that could be done at a local developer's station, something like, "Hey, here's a hint, this thing looks like it might not be optimized," or the like. I think more development features, to hedge that performance would be good."
"Configuring nodes and agents should be more like plug and play."
"The one area that we get value out of now, where we would love to see additional features, is the Session Replay. The ability to see how one individual uses a particular feature is great. But what we'd really like to be able to see is how a large group of people uses a particular feature. I believe Dynatrace has some things on its roadmap to add to Session Replay that would allow us those kinds of insights as well."
"Cloud monitoring and reporting need improvement, as well as how to manipulate data and export it to share with business executives."
"I would like them to add serverless capabilities, because everyone is going there."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". 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". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and ITRS Geneos, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Sentry report.
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