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Dynatrace vs Sentry comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.7
Dynatrace enhances efficiency, saves costs, improves performance, and boosts customer satisfaction, with significant operational and financial benefits.
Sentiment score
6.8
Sentry quickly resolves errors, boosts productivity, reduces downtime, improves user experience, and allows focus on new features.
ROI is hard to specify; however, incidents like impending ransomware attacks highlight its value, though those are exceptional events.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Dynatrace offers generally responsive and knowledgeable support with occasional inconsistencies, praised for quick escalation and effective solutions.
Sentiment score
3.5
Many users find Sentry's documentation sufficient, but some rate technical support 3.5/5 and use third-party resources for help.
They have a good reputation, and the support is commendable.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Dynatrace is scalable for large environments with strong cloud support, though cost and memory usage present challenges.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sentry scales efficiently for teams of varying sizes, handling millions of users and metrics without resource complaints or performance issues.
If it's an enterprise, increasing the number of instances doesn’t pose problems.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Dynatrace is praised for its strong, reliable performance and minimal downtime, with most issues quickly resolved.
Sentiment score
8.0
Users generally rate Sentry positively for stability and reliability, appreciating its good uptime and open-source nature.
Generally, all are stable at ninety-nine point nine nine percent, but if the underlying infrastructure is not deployed correctly, stability may be problematic.
 

Room For Improvement

Users find Dynatrace's pricing complex, seek better UI, integration, analytics, and support for legacy apps and training resources.
Sentry needs better automation, user metrics, customizable views, simpler integration, improved alerting, debugging, tracing, and enhanced admin features.
The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.
 

Setup Cost

Dynatrace offers advanced features and ROI, but its costly pricing and licensing complexities require careful management for budget-conscious organizations.
Sentry provides cost-effective pricing options, including a free plan, flexible paid plans, and a self-hosted open-source version.
 

Valuable Features

Dynatrace offers code insights, AI alerts, and real-user monitoring, optimizing performance with ease of use and minimal configuration.
Sentry offers integration, error tracking, performance monitoring, security, and ease of use, making it superior to New Relic and Azure Monitor.
Graduation features offered by Dynatrace provide a single view and can connect with many other monitoring systems.
 

Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
345
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (4th), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st), AIOps (2nd)
Sentry
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Debugging (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 12.4%, down from 14.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentry is 6.7%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Manish Ved - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution has a useful AI engine, but the reports could be a bit better
We are typically about a version or two behind. We are on the managed solution. Our model of deployment is on-premises. I would say there are a couple of thousand users of this solution in our company. We are also planning on increasing the usage as our apps migrate to the cloud. I would advise other people looking into solutions, to do their homework beforehand and not assume that by deploying all the tools everything will automatically work, so there's still a lot of configuration involved. I would rate this solution as a whole an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
Abdullah Baig - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing
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 Sentry is valuable. It took just a few minutes. Session Replay provides a replay of the recorded errors. It is a good feature. Azure Monitor does not have this feature. The error reporting is straightforward. We can see everything that we need to see. The dashboard seems pretty fine. The product performs well. We can see the user's IP addresses.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
35%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...
What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?
While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...
Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
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

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