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 most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It has good stability."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"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."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"The price could be lowered."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
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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