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.
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The solution can scale well."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The solution has good features."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The price could be lowered."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"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."
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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