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 solution can scale well."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"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."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution has good features."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The product performs well."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The formatting could be better."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The price could be lowered."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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 33 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. Grafana is rated 7.8, 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 "A stable alert management application with straightforward and neat documentation". Grafana is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, New Relic, Honeycomb.io and Elastic Observability, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Datadog, Elastic Observability and AWS X-Ray. See our Grafana vs. Sentry report.
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