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.
"It has enabled us to have a deeper insight into our application availability and performance."
"We use PurePath to see exactly what the user observed from the web browser to the end of the request to the dialog box. Every step of what they do is very useful for us to diagnose a problem"
"Daily metrics which us analyze the page composition and the corresponding performance metrics so we can quickly and easily determine when something has changed, to aid in root cause analysis."
"A very powerful solution for the end user."
"I can review behaviors, trending issues, and resolve issues before they impact our clients."
"The dashboard customization based on the performance metric requirement is one of the most exciting features."
"Provides more visibility into applications."
"In the AppMon, offering, currently, the most valuable feature is the PurePath analysis, being able to deep-dive into call chains."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Documentation could be improved. E.g., you don't know how to properly use Dynatrace because documentation is almost lacking behind the features being deployed."
"I would like a tool that can give me a one page view of all the problems and issues."
"I think scalability is what we're struggling with. I would say it's okay, but there's a little bit of room for improvement."
"I would love to see a better data export, because AppMon's charting capabilities leaves a lot to be desired. You have about a 5,000 line limit. I would really like to see the ability to export, in Dynatrace and AppMon, in essentially in a nice format of whatever you want to whatever else."
"Add support for Ruby."
"I would like to see income monitoring for the servers and infrastructure monitoring."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"The reporting could be better."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"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."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"The price could be lowered."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
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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