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.
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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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