We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability 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: Elastic Observability is the preferred choice over Sentry due to its comprehensive features such as machine learning, custom development, and predictive analytics. Users note that Elastic Observability has a steep learning curve but is cost-effective and helps reduce incidents and overheads. Sentry has limitations in automation, tracking, and analytics capabilities, as well as customization options.
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"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 stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"Elastic Observability is an excellent product for monitoring and visibility, but it lacks predictive analytics. Most solutions are aligned with the AIOps requirements, but this piece is missing in Elastic and should be included."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"The auto-discovery isn't nearly as good. That's a big portion of it. When you drop the agent onto the JVM and you're trying to figure things out, having to go through and manually do all that is cumbersome."
"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."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The price could be lowered."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". 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". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Datadog, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Datadog. See our Elastic Observability vs. Sentry report.
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