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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sentry

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASentry provides engineering teams with tools to detect and solve user-impacting bugs and other issues.

    $26

    per month

    Smartlook

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Smartlook is an analytics solution tool for websites, iOS/Android apps, and various app frameworks, that answers the "whys" behind users' actions. It helps users understand precisely how customers interact with website and app — watch recordings, create heatmaps, use automatic tracked events, and build conversion funnels. Data is seen on one central dashboard, which enables sharing and collaborating with colleagues. This is to support clear, data-driven decision-making for product managers,…

    $55

    per month 5000 sessions

    Pricing
    SentrySmartlook
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $26
    per month
    Business
    $80
    per month
    Developer
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Pro
    $55
    per month 5000 sessions
    Free
    Free forever
    per month 3000 sessions
    Enterprise
    Custom pricing
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    Pricing Offerings
    SentrySmartlook
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—All Smartlook packages support both web and mobile app platforms.
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    User Ratings
    SentrySmartlook
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (141 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (75 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (107 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    SentrySmartlook
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Smartlook
    Smartlook is best for screen recordings. Especially when you are running MVPs. However, its pricing is very high. If your daily visitors are too much then either you will have to lose many of your recordings or you will have to pay too much money.
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    Pros
    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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    Smartlook
    • Funnels are both easy to configure yet comprehensive enough to detect complicated customer journeys.
    • Real-time recording provides exceptional insights to our design & engineering teams.
    • Session recording is surprisingly lightweight and seems to cause no substantial performance degradation for our customers.
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    Cons
    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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    Smartlook
    • I feel nickel and dimed with the events and funnels.
    • We came from sessions being 30 mins of inactivity and now it's 5-10 mins. Session count has gone up significantly which we weren't prepared for.
    • Recording playback isn't as clean and maneuverable like FullStory.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Smartlook
    As my ratings show, I have been absolutely delighted with Smartlook in terms of usability, cost, support, and its benefit to our organization. I have given it such high ratings because I think it has really benefitted our organization and I think it could do the same for other companies too.
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    Usability
    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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    Smartlook
    Every page, the tool setup pages and dashboards are built very well, the site structure is perfectly designed and intuitive to use. All functions are well documented and the help sections are really everywhere, you don't have to search for answers, as they are just popped up or max. a click away for your service.
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    Support Rating
    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Smartlook
    Sofia P. is being our point of contact with the issues we faced. I was unsure about how to explain to her what was going on with the recording numbers (the recording has stopped before we were expecting to), but she readily understood and came with a solution for us in the same day. The problem was blocking our developer to test the integration, so it was great to have support so fast that he could continue his work.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Smartlook
    It has been a year between the time when I last used Hotjar and first started using Smartlook. I would say both tools are more or less equal when it comes to features, the only 2 differences I can think of are - price and customer support. Smartlook is cheaper and has superior customer services. You have the feeling when interacting with them that they genuinely care.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Smartlook
    • Smartlook is used by different individuals from different organizations to have insights into different parts of products. It is used as the sole developer of our website as well as marketing campaigns.
    • Smartlook has an amazing feature which is tracking the activities of return users.
    • It gives reliable and efficient services.
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    Smartlook Screenshots

    Screenshot of HeatmapsScreenshot of RecordingsScreenshot of DashboardsScreenshot of EventsScreenshot of FunnelsScreenshot of Analytics for websites & mobile apps