We performed a comparison between New Relic 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: New Relic offers versatile features, in-depth application information, and better technical support. While Sentry has accurate error management and tracking, there is room for improvement in automation, tracking and analytics capabilities, and customer service. New Relic has a simpler user interface and straightforward pricing, while Sentry's pricing is expensive.
"One valuable feature is that the synthetic alert stays open until the issue is resolved. You can actually monitor whether your system is back up."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to manage the application flow."
"It has helped my organization to dive deeper into the application using the APM module is very helpful."
"End-user Synthetics and monitoring are very good."
"New Relic's dashboard is nice, and it's reliable. It's also compatible with many services, especially Java and the Python ecosystem."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is the dashboard, New Relic Insights. I configured my own dashboard to monitor certain parameters."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and tracing."
"The tool's most valuable features were APM and core reliability. We get alerts whenever an anomaly is detected. The solution is very friendly."
"The product performs well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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 most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"I would like to have storage monitoring. E.g., being able to monitor SANS, specifically protocols, like NFS and CIFS metrics."
"The price needs improvement."
"Compared to their competitors, they are missing some features at the moment."
"Documentation is one of the biggest things that I have a problem with since its documentation is not clear sometimes."
"I would like if it could have predictive analysis. Today, we only have the option to configure thresholds."
"The initial setup can be made easier. Like Mixpanel, New Relic can also have a step-by-step guide for the setup process."
"The solution needs to have staging."
"The connectivity between legacy and newer cloud applications is not great."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"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."
"The price could be lowered."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. New Relic is rated 8.6, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of New Relic writes "Has a simple user interface and end-to-end monitoring and self-healing features". 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". New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and AWS X-Ray, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, AWS X-Ray and Datadog. See our New Relic vs. Sentry report.
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