CoScale (discontinued) vs. Sentry

CoScale is designed specifically to monitor container and microservices environments managed by Kubernetes ecosystem.

Incentivized

[Sentry] is honestly an amazing product. It allows us to detect errors in real time complete with stack traces and any extra accompanying information the developer wants to provide in the alert. With the alerting into Slack it has allowed us to quickly triage and tag in people who need eyes on a specific issue. It would be really useful in any Saas product environment.

Incentivized

• Visualizes Kubernetes web performance in context.
• Automatically creates a number of default, but very informative dashboards.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• It is missing a summary view of resource consumption by all instances of a given service.
• Takes an old school approach to save dashboard changes with a button.

Incentivized

• The UI is overwhelming and it takes time to "digest it"
• It would have been nice to have the ability to "group together" minor releases into one that represents a bigger release

Incentivized

We have been working with CoScale for quite some time now, and we have not encountered too many problems really. The majority of minor issues we ran into were quickly solved by reaching out to technical community forums. When it comes to the remaining ones, we were able to solve those efficiently with assistance from the supporting team of technical experts.

Incentivized

CoScale was developed as a next-generation monitoring and alerting system for Kubernetes container orchestration engine, and it largely delivers what was promised by leveraging direct integration into the orchestration engine itself. Compared to other vendors, CoScale's in-container monitoring allows even to monitor the services running within the containers, which makes a huge difference for us.

Incentivized

I think Sentry is far more user-friendly and has a better UI. Sentry is also a more affordable option.

Incentivized

• Information provided by CoScale accelerates problem solving for us.
• Significantly lowers the time to identify any issues with our container environment.

Incentivized

• The first notice of an issue more than paid for it for the month.
• However, it's not as useful if you aren’t doing active development.

Incentivized