We performed a comparison between New Relic 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: New Relic offers versatile features, in-depth application information, and better technical support. While Sentry has accurate error management and tracking, there is room for improvement in automation, tracking and analytics capabilities, and customer service. New Relic has a simpler user interface and straightforward pricing, while Sentry's pricing is expensive.
"It allows the restriction of privileges and control of users."
"The most valuable feature is the New Relic APM module to deep-dive into the application, to get bottlenecks to the surface, and to improve application performance. Also, the New Relic Insights module creates a real-time dashboard on application performance to create awareness for the DevOps team."
"They instrument up from the bottom to the top – every piece of code - they have a very perfect read of what’s being done, and how long it’s taking."
"There are many valuable features in New Relic APM. We developed some software applications and we are able to monitor the errors very easily. Their log security retention is very good."
"The stability of New Relic APM is very good."
"It has in-depth analysis using developer code for someone whose not traditionally a developer."
"New Relic's dashboard is nice, and it's reliable. It's also compatible with many services, especially Java and the Python ecosystem."
"We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."
"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."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The product performs well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It is a serious tool and requires a lot of time invested in order to understand how it works."
"The connectivity between legacy and newer cloud applications is not great."
"Compared to their competitors, they are missing some features at the moment."
"I would like to have storage monitoring. E.g., being able to monitor SANS, specifically protocols, like NFS and CIFS metrics."
"There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
"In the next release, I'd like to see a better pricing structure."
"Some of our customers see New Relic as a promising product to have, and we would like to deliver it to them. The only way we would be able to do that would be if we had server appliance for clients that we could install in their data centres."
"The solution must provide better support for Azure Web Apps service."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"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."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 151 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. New Relic is rated 8.6, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of New Relic writes "Has a simple user interface and end-to-end monitoring and self-healing features". 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". New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and AWS X-Ray, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, Datadog and AWS X-Ray. See our New Relic vs. Sentry report.
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