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 best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"We like the alert features."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"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 product performs well."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The price could be lowered."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
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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