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.
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"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 solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The product performs well."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"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."
"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."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"The price could be lowered."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"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."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
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 Grafana, 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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