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BugSnag vs Sentry comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

BugSnag
Ranking in Debugging
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sentry
Ranking in Debugging
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Debugging category, the mindshare of BugSnag is 20.9%, down from 25.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentry is 30.4%, down from 30.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Debugging
 

Featured Reviews

Aisha Mazher - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 23, 2023
The solution can be used to check the number of users online and how many times the application crashed
The solution's dashboard is used to check how many users were online, how many users were using our application, how many times the application crashed, and which call had crashed With BugSnag, we are able to get some data out of it. I am currently working for a payment app, and we have to…
Abdullah Baig - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 4, 2023
An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing
I am exploring Sentry, New Relic, and Azure Monitor. The tools can be used to monitor our solutions. We want to improve the reliability of the applications Sentry was easy to learn compared to New Relic and Azure Monitor. I saw some valuable input. It took us the least amount of time to see how…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are monitoring and the information provided from the customers' journey."
"Since BugSnag is a web application and not a mobile application, a user's attempts to click on the back or forward buttons also get logged."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The product performs well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"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 most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
 

Cons

"The solution could improve by having a better graphical interface and more in-depth functionality."
"It's hard to integrate with the application, and the setup was not very straightforward."
"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."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required for this solution."
"Currently, we are in the production phase of our project and we are on free plans to use Sentry. Once we go live we will have to be on a subscription-based plan."
"We can adjust the price a little bit based on our needs."
"I am currently using a self-hosted open version."
"We are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BugSnag?
Since BugSnag is a web application and not a mobile application, a user's attempts to click on the back or forward buttons also get logged.
What needs improvement with BugSnag?
It's hard to integrate with the application, and the setup was not very straightforward.
What is your primary use case for BugSnag?
The solution's dashboard is used to check how many users were online, how many users were using our application, how many times the application crashed, and which call had crashed.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sentry?
The product costs $26 a month if we choose a yearly subscription. Code coverage can be added for an additional $29 per month. The Team plan is the cheapest package available. We can make our own bu...
What needs improvement with Sentry?
It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location.
 

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Sample Customers

Microsoft, Cisco, PagerDuty, TicketMaster, EA, Docker, Stubhub, Shopify, Slack
Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber
Find out what your peers are saying about BugSnag vs. Sentry and other solutions. Updated: October 2024.
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