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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Stackify and Sentry compete in error tracking and monitoring software. Users prefer Stackify for customer support and deployment, while Sentry is favored for its features despite a higher price.

Features: Stackify provides detailed log management, real-time monitoring, and integrated error tracking. Sentry offers advanced error tracking, better integrations, and comprehensive data analysis.

Room for Improvement: Stackify can enhance its user interface responsiveness and improve documentation. Sentry could benefit from pricing transparency and simpler setup.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Stackify has straightforward setup and excellent customer support. Sentry's deployment is more complex but backed by robust support. Users value Stackify's simplicity, whereas Sentry's feature-rich complexity is a trade-off.

Pricing and ROI: Users find Stackify more cost-effective with quicker ROI due to lower setup costs. Sentry, despite higher costs, delivers superior features for better long-term ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Sentry vs. Stackify Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Sentry

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Debugging (1st)

Stackify

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

60th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (59th), Log Management (58th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Sentry is 5.8%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Stackify is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Sentry	5.8%
Stackify	0.4%
Other	93.8%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Abdullah Baig

Software Dev at AF AB

An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing

Sentry was easy to learn compared to New Relic and Azure Monitor. I saw some valuable input. It took us the least amount of time to see how Sentry is valuable. It took just a few minutes. Session Replay provides a replay of the recorded errors. It is a good feature. Azure Monitor does not have this feature. The error reporting is straightforward. We can see everything that we need to see. The dashboard seems pretty fine. The product performs well. We can see the user's IP addresses.

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Moses Arigbede

Head of DevOps at Partsimony

Easy to set up with great custom dashboards but needs to improve non-.NET infrastructure

They need to improve non-.NET infrastructure. We always had difficulty when it comes to reporting or metrics that come from Linux operating systems and Docker containers. For anything that runs within the Unix environment, we always had problems with them, however, if it was a document-based application, Stackify was 100%, it gave everything. Now, the aggregation agent, the metric agent for Stackify for Linux, collects everything. When I say everything, I mean, everything. It collects so much information that we now started to term it as useless data as all that ingestion will just come in and overwhelm your log retention limit for the month and really this spike up your cost at the end of the month. You'll need to do a lot in order to train down the data coming in from all your Linux environments, to get to what you really need, which actually takes some time as well. I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines. Stackify has not really gotten that right, as far as I'm concerned. Netdata has done a better job and New Relic has also done a better job. They need to improve on that. We need to be able to see the individual resource usage of containers running within a particular host.

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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

"Sentry's performance monitoring has helped us understand where the bottlenecks are in our application and allowed us to optimize critical transactions for a faster user experience."

"Overall, I give Sentry a rating of 10."

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

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

"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."

"I would rate the stability of Sentry as eight out of ten."

"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."

"The product performs well."

More Sentry pros

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"The deployment is very fast."

"The performance dashboard and the accurate level of details are beneficial."

"The filter feature on Stackify is one of the features I found valuable. It's awesome. When I want to get the application logs, the solution gives me many filters. For example, if I want to get logs from my test environment, the option is there for me to select the environment from Stackify, and you can also select the particular application, and you'll see the information you need there. The filter feature alone and the fact that Stackify offers a lot of different filters is what I like the most about the solution because I've used other tools with the filter feature, but the filtering was very difficult, versus Stackify that has good filtering. On Stackify, you can filter the information by the last one hour, or the last four hours, and you can also select the date range and specify the timestamp, then the solution will give you the information based on the date range you specified. Another feature I found valuable on Stackify is its rating feature because it tells you how your application is faring. For example, a rating of A means excellent, while a rating of F means very bad, or that your application is not doing well at all. The ratings are from A to F. I also like that Stackify helps you in terms of load management because the solution gives you information on overutilized resources. These are the most valuable features of the solution."

Cons

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

"One area where I think Sentry can improve is in the granularity of its alerting system, as it sometimes feels too sensitive or not customizable enough."

"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."

"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."

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

"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."

"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."

More Sentry cons

"The search feature could be improved."

"It should be easily scalable and configurable in different instances."

"I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines."

"I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

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

"The price is variable. It depends on how much data we have received in that particular month. Usually, it goes up to $2,000, or, at times, $3,000 USD per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

Media Company

Insurance Company

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Small Business

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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Overview

Sentry is a robust error management system known for real-time error tracking and integration with tools like Slack, GitLab, and Jira, benefiting those seeking comprehensive application performance insights.

Sentry offers a seamless platform to monitor errors in both front-end and back-end applications, providing real-time alerts and comprehensive event log context. With its integration capabilities, teams effectively track application metrics and access performance data without direct production access, ensuring enhanced reliability. Sentry's features such as event grouping and code trace logs linked to Git repositories highlight its utility in maintaining application efficiency. Enhanced security and regular updates make it a preferred choice over competitors. Despite some requests for improvements in automation and UI enhancements, Sentry remains invaluable for error management and application performance monitoring.

What are the key features of Sentry?

Integration capabilities: Connects with Slack, GitLab, Jira, AWS Lambda.
Real-time error tracking: Alerts users instantly about errors.
Event grouping: Groups related errors for easier management.
Code trace logs: Provides detailed trace logs linked to Git repositories.
Comprehensive context: Offers a complete view of events and context.

What benefits and ROI can users expect from Sentry?

Enhanced reliability: Provides critical insights for robust application performance.
Accessibility: Easy deployment and quick adaptation make it user-friendly.
Security: Maintains high security standards with timely updates.
Utility in error management: Detects silent failures, aiding ETL processes.
Cost efficiency: Favored over alternatives like New Relic due to comprehensive features.

In industries like technology, Sentry is crucial for monitoring errors in web applications, offering real-time alerts and performance tracking. It is frequently used in ETL processes to detect failures without direct developer access, benefiting teams who manage large-scale applications and databases efficiently.

Sentry

Stackify is an application performance management (APM) solution that combines application performance monitoring with logs, errors, and reporting. It is a SaaS solution that is developer-focused. Users can quickly scan, identify, and repair issues with applications. Stackify APM offers valuable tools, such as Prefix and Retrace, which help to make it a comprehensive and valuable APM solution. Stackify is now part of the Netreo family of IT Infrastructure Management (ITIM), which is considered one of the fastest-growing IT organizations in the marketplace today.

Stackify Prefix

Stackify Prefix helps developers write better code, faster. The tool examines, tests, and approves code as it is being written. Almost every new application is code-perfect, negating the need for exhausting troubleshooting and frustrating time-consuming code review.

Prefix is able to discover poor-performing SQL queries, ORM queries, potential bottlenecks, and concealed exceptions prior to moving the application into production.

Prefix offers Summary Dashboards, intuitive suggestions, integrated logs, and distributed tracing. Distributed tracing expands visibility to cloud-native applications, microservices, and containers and can also provide additional transparency to cache services, web services, third-party services, and more. Users are able to easily move from logs to traces and back.

This valuable tool ensures developers are able to consistently release the best code possible in the least amount of time, while improving performance, productivity, and profitability.

Prefix is a very robust and easy-to-use tool. It can be used seamlessly with Linux, macOS, and Windows. Prefix integrates well with numerous languages, such as Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, .Net, and .Net Core.

Stackify Retrace

Stackify Retrace is a user-friendly, trusted APM solution used in more than fifty countries worldwide. Users know that Retrace is able to ensure they can complete quicker, more efficient application development and consistently enhance overall application performance by suggesting important intuitive suggestions users need.

This solution is beneficial to both developers (Dev) and operations (Ops) personnel to learn to improve code and immediately finetune issues by:

Establishing effortless collaboration between Dev and Ops personnel via an easy-to-use GUI dashboard.
Delivering complete transparency of all stages of the application development process, from pre-development to production.
Utilizing performance protocols, such as error tracking, application logs, and code profiling, in real time in order to thoroughly understand how long a code will take to complete various tasks.
Improving overall efficiency and productivity by immediately discovering and repairing application issues.

Retrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) uses both front-end and back-end monitoring to give users a complete picture of what is going on with the applications. This intuitive dashboard displays performance with a complete breakdown of resource usage and integrates the server-side and client traces into one engaging, user-friendly, extensive view.

Retrace is an out-of-the-box solution that works seamlessly with Java stacks, PHP, Node.js, Ruby, Python, .Net, and .Net Core. It is also compatible with many of today’s popular frameworks, such as AWS, Azure, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis, and SQL Server. Additionally, Retrace will work effectively with many cloud providers, containers, and languages, and offers excellent and easy integration with today's favorite tools such as Jira, Slack, Jenkins, and more.

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