Elastic Observability vs Sentry comparison

Elastic Observability

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Elastic Observability

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Sentry and Elastic Observability offer robust monitoring solutions. Users are happier with Sentry's ease of use and customer support, but Elastic Observability excels in feature depth and performance, making it a favorable choice despite the higher cost.

Features: Sentry provides real-time error tracking, intuitive alerts, and a user-friendly interface. Elastic Observability offers comprehensive log analytics, multi-source data integration, and extensive data visualization capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Sentry needs enhanced integration with other DevOps tools, better performance monitoring, and scalability improvements. Elastic Observability requires a simpler setup process, more intuitive error tracking, and enhanced user documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sentry has straightforward deployment and responsive support. Elastic Observability has a steeper learning curve but benefits from good customer support, though users find Sentry's deployment ease an advantage.

Pricing and ROI: Sentry is cost-effective with quick ROI and lower setup costs. Elastic Observability is more expensive but justifies the cost with its extensive features, leading to satisfactory ROI. Users feel Elastic Observability's higher costs are worthwhile due to its powerful capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Elastic Observability

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th), Log Management (14th), Container Monitoring (4th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)

Sentry

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Debugging (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Elastic Observability is 6.6%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentry is 7.9%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Unique Categories:

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

3.9%

Log Management

1.5%

Debugging

29.2%

Featured Reviews

SRIDHAR KARRA

Chief Operating Officer at Integra Micro Software Services, Bangalore

Jul 3, 2023

A solution offering stability, good support, and a straightforward setup phase

Right now, I don't have any comments on what needs to be improved because I handle the delivery unit at a CEO's level. So, it's my team who works hands-on and on a day-to-day basis. Hence, they may be the right people to comment on this. The price of the solution can make a 100 percent difference. I think the licensing model may not have major issues because it's only a node-based one or something. However, the customers should first consume the existing features completely because quite a few customers do not use the complete capacity of Elastic's enterprise version. So that's how things are in India right now. The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper.

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EvertonZoelner

Senior Frontend Developer | React.JS | React Native | Typescript at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Jun 2, 2023

It breaks everything down in real time

I use Sentry to monitor application performance. Sentry helps me identify errors in my applications. Sentry breaks everything down in real time. It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved. I have used Sentry for two…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."

"Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds."

"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."

"The solution has been stable in our usage."

"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."

"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."

"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."

"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."

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"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."

"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."

"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."

"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."

"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."

"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."

"The product performs well."

"The solution is user-friendly."

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Cons

"We did have some issues at the beginning."

"Elastic Observability is an excellent product for monitoring and visibility, but it lacks predictive analytics. Most solutions are aligned with the AIOps requirements, but this piece is missing in Elastic and should be included."

"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."

"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."

"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."

"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."

"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."

"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."

More Elastic Observability cons

"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."

"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."

"The price could be lowered."

"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."

"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."

"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."

More Sentry cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Elastic Observability is cheaper than other similar solutions, such as Dynatrace. Its license calculation is based on various factors like data volume and physical infrastructure, particularly related to RAM capacity."

"We will buy a premium license after POC."

"Users have to pay for some features, like the alerts on different channels, because they are unavailable in different source versions."

"The price of Elastic Observability is expensive."

"It is expensive. It is not cheap."

"We have been using the open-source version."

"Elastic Observability's pricing could be better for small-scale users."

"Since we are a huge company, Elastic Observability is an affordable solution for us."

More Elastic Observability pricing and cost advice

"We can adjust the price a little bit based on our needs."

"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 are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service."

"I am currently using a self-hosted open version."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Elastic Observability?

Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Observability?

I rate the pricing a five out of ten. The product is not that cheap.

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What needs improvement with Elastic Observability?

The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configurati...

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What do you like most about Sentry?

The product performs well.

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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...

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What needs improvement with Sentry?

It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location.

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Overview

To effectively monitor and gain insights across your distributed systems, you need to have all your observability data in one stack. Break down silos by bringing together application, infrastructure, and user data into a unified solution for end-to-end observability and alerting.
Rely on the most widely deployed observability platform available, built on the proven Elastic Stack (also known as the ELK Stack) to converge silos, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights.

Sentry’s real-time error tracking gives you insight into production deployments and information to reproduce and fix crashes.

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PSCU, Entel, VITAS, Mimecast, Barrett Steel, Butterfield Bank

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