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.
"We like the alert features."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The price could be lowered."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
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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