We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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: Dynatrace has more extensive features, including real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring. Dynatrace also has superior AI capabilities, and better topology visualization with its Kubernetes module. Sentry is user-friendly and has accurate error management, but users suggest it needs more comprehensive tracking and analytics capabilities, better integration, and lower pricing. Customer service and support quality information for Sentry are limited. Overall, Dynatrace offers more value for its price and has received higher user ratings.
"The agent deployment is the most valuable. You don't need to do any configuration. You just deploy the agents, and it can automatically detect your infrastructure. That was the greatest feature that we saw in Dynatrace. If there is any database, it can detect it automatically and present everything to you."
"It allows you to better utilize and focus your talent, and tell management that you are not only looking at problems, but how you can ultimately make the product better for the end user."
"The most valuable features of Dynatrace are the ease of installation and management, as well as its extensibility."
"The user interface is like a type of dashboard. You can use the tool as an end user into the tool interface, which is good."
"We can see each session, end-to-end, and discover issues."
"The most valuable features for us include problem detection, root cause identification, Smartscape, and integration with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc."
"We can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database."
"Auto alerting and reporting on the application and the infrastructure aid us in delivering our service with greater value."
"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 product performs well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Mainly navigation needs improvement. It is easier to follow a flow. Following the flow of the admin now is not easy."
"We would like to see an AI tool that detects issues with our site in real time."
"One thing we'd like to see is mobile native replay. They don't have a timeline on it yet, but that's one of the key things we're looking at, to get rid of one of our incumbent products that does replay."
"I haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but I would like to see the ability, from an administrative standpoint, for it to collect statistics. I want to be able to see the servers that the agents are installed on. I want it to be able to start doing collections for me by platform: How many Linux servers do I have? How many Windows servers do I have? Statistically give me the information of how things are performing, but I want that in a dashboard, where I can look at a dashboard and I can look at a section. So the ability for me to drill down will make it easier for me."
"Its price, for sure, should be improved. Its price is quite high. Other than the price, there are always improvements to be made as technologies change. When we move into cloud-based technologies, Dynatrace will also have to adapt so that they can monitor those as well. It should have the adaptability to quickly transform to monitor those new technologies."
"Either use less system resources and be faster or use more resources to pre-compute the PurePath on recent X minutes of data"
"I think Dynatrace needs improvements with respect to reporting; not just performance, but the business-level reports."
"Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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."
"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."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". 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". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and ITRS Geneos, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Sentry report.
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