We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Sentry based on real PeerSpot user reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing features, user-friendly interface, scalability, and technical support of Google Cloud's operations suite make it the preferred option over Sentry. While Sentry offers accurate error management and rich context, users have suggested it needs more automation, customization options, and improved integration. Additionally, there is limited information on Sentry's customer service and support, and users have mixed opinions on its pricing and licensing. Google Cloud's operations suite has yielded positive ROI according to reviews.
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The product performs well."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It could be more stable."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be even more automated."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
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"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Dynatrace, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and Backtrace. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Sentry report.
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