Item: Sentry
Rating: 10
Author: Nazif Aksay

Overall Satisfaction with Sentry

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sentry for Client Side web application and performance Monitoring. We needed to track and troubleshoot client side errors for frontend application and the measure the performance of our frontend applications and some backend applications and also for website monitoring. Easy installation and implementation and provides support for entra-id groups for user maintenance

Pros and Cons

Pros

frontend client side errors
measure the performance of your frontend applications
easy user interface
It is easy to integrate and useful for team organization
session replays

Cons

alerting integration with microsoft teams
some documentation with integration for other tools is behind schedule
micro-architecture setup to use with multiple teams

Return on Investment

must-have for front-end applications
Easy to use and implement
Other tools are less suitable for front-end development or more expensive to purchase, which means you end up using multiple tools.

Usability

Great tool. I've already used it for my own projects and it's my go-to tool for frontend error tracking. Nice user interface and fairly easy to use. For some applications, it's important that we can indicate at the URL level which team is responsible for an error. This is fairly easy to do in Sentry, and it's even possible to import a CODEOWNERS file. We don't need to add any extra labels or custom code for this. It can be set up purely at the URL level.

Alternatives Considered

Grafana, Datadog and New Relic

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.

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

Grafana, Datadog, New Relic

Likelihood to Recommend

Great tool for front-end checks. Compared to a few years ago, they have made significant progress in terms of quality, features, and a more user-friendly interface. It has improved considerably. The session replays are also extremely useful. They make it possible to determine exactly how the user interacted with the website and where exactly things went wrong. By default, all text values are hidden in Sentry, ensuring that no user-sensitive data is disclosed.

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Excellent tool for front-end checks