We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor 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: After analyzing user feedback, it can be concluded that Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to Sentry. Azure Monitor stands out due to its extensive range of features, such as integration with Visual Studio, Power BI, and additional Azure services. The ease of setup, stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness are also highly appreciated. Although Sentry is acknowledged for its accuracy and compatibility with multiple tools, Azure Monitor offers a more comprehensive and adaptable solution for monitoring and resolving issues with cloud resources.
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Sentry is most compared with Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Datadog. See our Azure Monitor vs. Sentry report.
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