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 product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"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 initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The product performs well."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"The formatting could be better."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The price could be lowered."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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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