Item: Sentry
Rating: 8
Author: Rahul Jain

Overall Satisfaction with Sentry

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have many microservices and its very important to monitor them for errors and any other bugs. So we needed some dashboard where we can see the full trace of the error occurred while the user was using our product and Sentry just does that. Its so easy to integrate and see the error traces with the information of user and the line from where the error originated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Get the full trace of the error.
Integrations like slack for errors if you can't see dashboard everytime.
Different kinds of alerts like slack, email and grouping of alerts.

Cons

if we could decrease the costing via some kind of sampling of errors.
sometimes same error is in loop and Sentry will count all the events for pricing if there is any way this can be reduced.
self hosted capabilities or using own storage to reduce cost.

Most Important Features

Error Tracing
Easy integration with any framework and support for multiple languages.
Good community support for any kind of 3rd party integration.

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

Rollbar

We used Rollbar but didn't like the configuration its not easy. And also doesn't support wide features like Sentry although its a cheaper option but doesn't have the dash-boarding like Sentry and its was not easy to integrate webhooks for different purposes. Somehow many people in company where not able to understand Rollbar dashboard who were very much used to Sentry.

Key Insights

Do you think Sentry delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sentry's feature set?

Yes

Did Sentry live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Sentry go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sentry again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Rollbar, GitBook, Postman

Likelihood to Recommend

Some of cases would be:-

get full trace of the error occurred with user information like primary key.
Grouping of similar kinds of errors.
Assigning the errors to someone from company and creating it as a jira issue for resolution tracing.
differentiating errors according to the environment where they occured.
role based access for the dashboard for different users of company.

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