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 best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"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 more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The product performs well."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"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."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
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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