Dev viewpoint of Sentry
August 28, 2023
Dev viewpoint of Sentry
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sentry
We use sentry for monitoring and tracking errors in our system. We have set up our own self-hosted instance for monitoring multiple systems. In fact multiple instances of sentry for different orgs. We heavily used it for alerting and identifying unknown or uncaught exceptions and also real time alerting for the same.
- Integration with application is quite simple
- Tracing exception and storing relevant info for simpler debugging
- User interface is quite simple and easy
- Integration with Slack or similar platforms for alerting
- Simpler and much configurable alerts, sometimes it doesn't look too intuitive
- It is very resource heavy and not that cost friendly
- Data sampling could be better
- error tracing
- real-time alerting
- seamless integration
- It helped stabilize our system in the beginning
- We had to take it down later due to internal reasons and majorly because of cost-cutting process
- If someone has a unstable system and have no way to figure out what to do, can use sentry at least temporarily along with some other APM to fix their system faster
Both AppD and Instana are a superset of sentry the majority of the time. Sentry is specialised in error tracking does the best in it, but the other too mentioned does a similar job along with multiple other monitoring features. Also, sampling of data is best in Instana, and is not that great in Sentry.
Do you think Sentry delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Sentry's feature set?
Yes
Did Sentry live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Sentry go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Sentry again?
Yes