Elastic Observability vs. Sentry

Elastic Observability

Elastic Observability

9 Reviews and Ratings

Sentry

Sentry

54 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Elastic Observability	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.	N/A
Sentry	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Sentry provides engineering teams with tools to detect and solve user-impacting bugs and other issues.	$26 per month

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Elastic Observability

Sentry

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Team: $26
per month
Business: $80
per month
Developer: Free
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Pricing Offerings
Elastic Observability	Sentry
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Elastic Observability	Sentry
Considered Both Products	Elastic Observability KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Chose Elastic Observability Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elastic Observability Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly … Incentivized Helpful?	Sentry Verified User Anonymous Chose Sentry Rollbar, Dynatrace, Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Datadog and Grafana Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Jain Senior Software Engineering Chose Sentry 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sentry 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sentry We actually ended up using both because New Relic is a more robust overall IT infrastructure monitoring product. However, sentry is more developer oriented on the backend and more client friendly on the front end as far as showing results and the dashboard etc. It can provide … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Scivolette President Chose Sentry I think Sentry is far more user-friendly and has a better UI. Sentry is also a more affordable option. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sentry Sentry was cheaper and lighter weight/easier to deal with. New Relic always felt like it was slowing the site down some. I don’t think either has had any major negative impact, but Sentry always seemed better/faster. Also, Sentry doesn’t have contracts like New Relic does … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect Chose Sentry Sentry is better suited for tracking and aggregating exceptions over New Relic. New Relic does report on exceptions that occur, but Sentry is better at rolling up similar exceptions and filtering out the noise. Sentry also does a great job at identifying when an exception first … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Chose Sentry Sentry is really a tool to be used in combination with other things, like Pingdom and PagerDuty. For those applications, Sentry is a far more full-features offering that lets you see why errors happened, not just be alerted to their occurrence. We chose it over other error … Incentivized Helpful? Luke Abbott Developer Chose Sentry There are quite a few players in this space, but Rollbar and Sentry seem to be the top two. I can't remember why I chose Sentry over Rollbar, but they seem pretty close in terms of features. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Elastic Observability	Sentry
Small Businesses	InfluxDB Score 8.8 out of 10	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	NetBrain Technologies Score 9.2 out of 10	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Elastic Observability	Sentry
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Elastic Observability	Sentry
Likelihood to Recommend	Great platform for managing application and server logs at a large scale. Elasticsearch can be integrated into 3rd-party software. For example, when combined with Kibana, beats, and logstash to build a full ELK stack it is very powerful and extremely useful for log evaluation, analysis showing detailed information, and creating a monitoring system. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	[Sentry] is honestly an amazing product. It allows us to detect errors in real time complete with stack traces and any extra accompanying information the developer wants to provide in the alert. With the alerting into Slack it has allowed us to quickly triage and tag in people who need eyes on a specific issue. It would be really useful in any Saas product environment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Licensing model is fair compared with other vendors that charge much more Ability to scale and ingest a lot of data without having to worry too much about performance issues that may crop up Searches return very fast GUI searching interface and filters are intuitive and suitable for new users Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It collects very detailed information on problems that happen to our users while using the platform It supplies very good tools in order to aggregate the collected data and analyze it It integrates with Slack, making it easier to "monitor it in real time" Incentivized Yaniv Vararu Director, Quality & Processes Read full review
Cons	User Interface. Dashboarding. Charting issues. Incentivized KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Read full review	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. Incentivized Rahul Jain Senior Software Engineering Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good and strong user community with a lot of people engaging with good customer support for all needs. Incentivized KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Read full review	We actually ended up using both because New Relic is a more robust overall IT infrastructure monitoring product. However, sentry is more developer oriented on the backend and more client friendly on the front end as far as showing results and the dashboard etc. It can provide product level insights that New Relic does not. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Flexibility to store, search and aggregate any type of data, regardless of data source. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Error tracking is a must in any modern dynamic website or app. By looking into the error notifications I'm able to fix errors before anyone even has a chance to complain about them! Surprisingly, many website issues aren't showing up in Sentry, because they don't trigger exceptions. I'm interested in seeing if I can use Sentry to catch manually-triggered exceptions for "undesirable states" that my website can find itself in. Of course, that means I have to figure out how to have my client code recognize that it's in an undesirable state... Incentivized Luke Abbott Developer Read full review
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