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Azure Monitor 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
6.4
Azure Monitor's ROI is mixed: some value its cost-effectiveness and insights, while others question its expense.
Sentiment score
3.9
Sentry quickly resolves errors, boosts productivity, reduces downtime, improves user experience, and allows focus on new features.
Azure Monitor helps prevent impacts on their system.
Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
Azure Monitor's customer service is praised for responsiveness, especially with premium support, but can improve on general knowledge and speed.
Sentiment score
4.0
Sentry's comprehensive documentation and community support reduce reliance on customer service, with support rated 3.5 out of 5.
However, the second-line support is good.
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra
Users end up getting no resolution from their team because they're outsourced vendors, and they don't have deeper expertise over any of the products they are referring to.
Software Engineer (DevOps/ SRE) at Sensys LLC
It was not as straightforward as the normal telemetry endpoints, meaning that you had to be on the VPN and do all of that.
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
We have not contacted their technical support because everything is easy to set up under Sentry.
Founding Member at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Azure Monitor provides scalable solutions for businesses, supports auto-scaling, integrates with tools, but requires careful cost management.
Sentiment score
7.5
Sentry is praised for its robust scalability, handling large-scale operations efficiently, even with high user volumes and complex environments.
With APM, you can go heavy or you can go light. It just depends on what you want, what your use case is, and how reactive you want to be to system load or resilient to failure.
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
Azure Monitor is very scalable; there are no issues with scalability for different kinds of businesses.
Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant
We have not encountered any scalability issues with Sentry.
Founding Member at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Azure Monitor is highly stable and reliable, though less agile, with high user ratings and potential cost concerns.
Sentiment score
7.5
Users praise Sentry's stability, citing few downtimes and robust features contingent on user skills, with high ratings.
Azure Monitor is working fine, yet I face a costing issue as if there are a lot of logs collected in the workspace or in the center, it becomes very costly.
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Monitor struggles with user-friendliness, integration, complexity, multi-cloud support, proactive monitoring, and requires enhanced usability and cost transparency.
Users seek Sentry improvements in integrations, analytics, customization, interface, debugging, personalization, mapping, documentation, and cloud capabilities.
The challenges with Azure Monitor are that it's initially complex to set up because you need multiple components.
Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant
My perspective is more based on an Application Insights agent running on a service or an app service and sending the telemetry via the agent, and also doing the filtering of telemetry at the agent level so you are not having a ton of telemetry.
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
If Azure Monitor can independently add one gigabyte, two gigabytes, or five gigabytes at least to log storage, I can fix the logs without syncing with Log Analytics Workspace and Sentinel.
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra
Integrations or single sign-on capability with Microsoft would be beneficial for securing all assets.
Founding Member at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Azure Monitor offers cost-effective variable pricing, but careful management is essential to avoid high expenses for enterprise users.
Sentry offers flexible, cost-effective pricing with easy plan transitions and customizable options for enterprise users.
When I export logs into the application, workspace, log analytic workspace, and into Sentinel to read reports, I need to add storage, which increases the cost.
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra
Compared to New Relic, it provides the necessary features at a cheaper cost, especially since we moved infrastructure monitoring to Azure.
Founding Member at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Azure Monitor provides comprehensive real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics, enhancing security and scalability for seamless infrastructure management.
Sentry provides robust error management, performance monitoring, and seamless integration with platforms, enhancing developer collaboration and application efficiency.
Azure Monitor full stack visibility in managing applications' health helps with APM, infrastructure monitoring, multi-cloud monitoring, security and compliance monitoring, and DevOps and automation monitoring.
Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant
I also appreciate the ability to measure feature activity, see what types of devices they are on, follow specific use cases, and measure the amount of traffic going to a particular application.
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
The ease of access in Azure is significant because it's native to the platform and easy to integrate.
Software Engineer (DevOps/ SRE) at Sensys LLC
Real-time error tracking helps our Quality Assurance team easily identify the root causes of problems or bugs and promptly inform the developers about specific issues.
Founding Member at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sentry provides real-time error tracking which is invaluable for identifying and resolving issues quickly.
Senior QA Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
At this time, I focus on finding and fixing bugs.
React Developer at Rayvarz Software Engineering Company
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (3rd)
Sentry
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Debugging (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Azure Monitor is 3.3%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentry is 3.8%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Azure Monitor3.3%
Sentry3.8%
Other92.9%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Andy Rabern - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
Telemetry insights have improved how I track user behavior and application performance daily
I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion. There are advantages to having stream messaging and logging on that level. But for what it is, I feel it does well. My perspective is more based on an Application Insights agent running on a service or an app service and sending the telemetry via the agent, and also doing the filtering of telemetry at the agent level so you are not having a ton of telemetry. I believe Azure Monitor does pretty much the same thing. I have also used tools such as New Relic, and New Relic is a much more robust tool, but that is a different product and you are going to pay for that. It is a different offering altogether. The subscription that we had at the time allowed for a couple gigabytes of telemetry during the month, and I believe that telemetry only lives for about two months. You have to experiment with it to see how much you want to pay. I was not really involved in the pricing. It was more along the lines of we were running up against our limits in terms of the amount of free telemetry or telemetry that we get with our subscription, and so we either needed to scale back or turn specific telemetry types off or do some more sampling. It is nice that those capabilities are there so that you can reduce the amount of telemetry. I cannot really speak to pricing but I do believe that it is somewhat reasonable for Azure Monitor. New Relic is pretty expensive, I believe.
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Founding Member at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real-time error tracking assists the QA team in swiftly identifying and reporting bugs
One of the greatest advantages of Sentry is its support for Azure Web Services, which New Relic does not support. Sentry integrates with common developer communication platforms like Discord and WhatsApp, which allows developers to easily track notifications and findings in the applications. Real-time error tracking helps our Quality Assurance team easily identify the root causes of problems or bugs and promptly inform the developers about specific issues.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
What do you like most about Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment.
What needs improvement with Azure Monitor?
I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion. There are advantages to having stream messaging and logging on that level. But for what it is, I feel it...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sentry?
Sentry is very affordable. We spend less than $200 to $300 a month. Compared to New Relic, it provides the necessary features at a cheaper cost, especially since we moved infrastructure monitoring ...
What needs improvement with Sentry?
Right now, Sentry meets our needs and we have not encountered any bottlenecks. However, additional personalization and easier setup for capturing all the different application logs could be an area...
What is your primary use case for Sentry?
We use Sentry for application performance management and tracking bugs and issues in the application.
 

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Sample Customers

Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber
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