Scout Monitoring vs. Sentry

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Scout Monitoring
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Scout APM is offered to enable software developers to spend their time building products customers love by minimizing the effort required to identify and resolve performance issues. As a provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, Scout states that their developer-centric approach pinpoints issues such as memory bloat, N+1 queries and other abnormalities, enabling customers to quickly resolve performance issues.
$19
per month 600k monthly transactions included
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
Scout MonitoringSentry
Editions & Modules
The Startup Plan
$19
per month 600k monthly transactions included
The Small Plan
$39
per month 1.2m monthly transactions included
Team
$26
per month
Business
$80
per month
Developer
Free
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Scout MonitoringSentry
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Scout MonitoringSentry
Features
Scout MonitoringSentry
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Scout Monitoring
9.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Sentry
-
Ratings
Application monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Scout MonitoringSentry
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(15 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Scout MonitoringSentry
Likelihood to Recommend
Scout APM
To me, it's the best APM out there for a Rails application. It is really easy to set up, configure and start debugging any kind of bad-performing endpoint. We have solved issues going from High Response Time to Memory Leaks/Bloats. All of this can be achieved even if you are hosting your app in a PaaS like Heroku. (Where sometimes is difficult to install an agent like in other vendors).
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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
Scout APM
  • I specifically use the risk assessment module and do risk assessments on any new product we introduce into our network or any company that we are thinking about taking on as a client.
  • I also use the vendor management module for any due diligence that comes up with a new company or a company that we may use once and then not use again.
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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
Scout APM
  • Errors (is a new functionality but I didn't get well how it can replace rollbar for example).
  • Usage measuring: In some cases is easy to get "disabled" due to a peak of bad requests.
  • Editing app's names
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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
Scout APM
No answers on this topic
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
Scout APM
I've already explained why this product beats Excel hands down in time and money. I also love the way it sends you an email when you forget any due diligence or testing that needs to be done.
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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
Scout APM
  • Speed to solve incidents
  • Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments
  • Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq)
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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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ScreenShots

Scout Monitoring Screenshots

Screenshot of Scout DashboardScreenshot of Backtrace viewScreenshot of Database Add-onScreenshot of N+1 InsightsScreenshot of Memory InsightsScreenshot of Slow Query Insights