Item: Sentry
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sentry

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sentry is our window to the performance of the website, giving us insight in performance and more importantly insight in the errors occuring there, so we can fix them reactively, if not proactively.
Besides the observability Sentry grants us itsself, we also export the logging to an external dashboarding tool to grant us one source of insight

Pros and Cons

Pros

Frontend developer approved insight
Dashboarding
Company onboarding

Cons

Lot of functionality leads to a cluttered interface, that will always be a point to improve if you don't want to scare off new users

Return on Investment

Enhanced frontend developer experience

Usability

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...

Alternatives Considered

New Relic

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Sentry go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sentry again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is particularly suited for frontend observability and debugging. To me personally it feels less suitable for backend debugging, but that could be lack of experience as we only used it once like that and the backend ate the quotum, leading to other teams having no bandwidth left to work with, which impacted adabtability in those teams

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Sentry at the gates of perfomance