Compuware Strobe (discontinued) vs. Sentry

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Compuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A
Sentry
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Sentry provides engineering teams with tools to detect and solve user-impacting bugs and other issues.
$26
per month
Pricing
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Sentry
Editions & Modules
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Team
$26
per month
Business
$80
per month
Developer
Free
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Sentry
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Sentry
Features
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Sentry
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
7.2
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Sentry
-
Ratings
Application monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Sentry
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(15 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Sentry
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
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Sentry
Great for standard web application performance monitoring, analytics and error reporting. Shows line level code errors, gives insight into performance issues (plugins, API issues, etc.). Automation and scheduled scanning in production gives client visibility into 'after deployment' value. Also lets a relatively small number of developers keep tabs on a handful of different site/applications without needing a bunch of tools. The UI is pretty complicated and can be overwhelming for new users. Documentation could be better for the learning curve,
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
  • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
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Sentry
  • Great web interface. Lots of data available in a really clean format, with filtering options and more.
  • Per-user exception tracking. User is complaining about something being broken? Look up their account ID in Sentry and you can see if they've run into any exceptions (with device information included, of course).
  • Source map uploading. Took a little while to figure this out but now we have our deploy script upload sourcemaps to Sentry on each deployment, meaning we get to see stack traces that aren't obfuscated!
  • Very generous free tier – 10,000 events per month. We're nowhere near that yet.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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Sentry
  • Alert Configuration. Would be really helpful to have multiple logical groupings within the "If" section of a single configurable alert.
  • Alert Copying. Being able to copy an alert from one project to another would be super beneficial.
  • Alert Tags. Better UI around how we select which tags are getting sent with each alert instead of a tiny text box.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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Sentry
Its incredibly versatile, but that leads to complexity for the uninitiated, which can be intimidating. Nevertheless its a well polished product, in our case leading to only using it for a focus on frontend is still more cost effective than buying a one-to-rule-them-all tool...
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
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Sentry
It is cheaper and offers better support for front-end applications for enterprise large environments with more then 30 scrum teams and hundreds of micro frontend applications. The configuration options, both with the agent and from the user interface, are superior to other tools, and the documentation is also very easy to use.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
  • Smoothened robots deployment.
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Sentry
  • So it has helped us for quick error resolutions.
  • From dashboard we are able to assign errors to particular member and see when its resolved.
  • Without customer informing us about errors we know what happened in real time helps in customer service also.
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