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 installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"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."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, 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 "An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. Sentry report.
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