What is Sentry and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Sentry
- Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog! ...
- Rollbar
Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate ra ...
- Crashlytics
Instead of just showing you the stack trace, Crashlytics performs deep analysis of each and every thread. We de-prioritize lines that don't matter while highlighting the interesting ones. This makes reading stack traces easier, faster, and far more useful! Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix. ...
- Bugsnag
Bugsnag captures errors from your web, mobile and back-end applications, providing instant visibility into user impact. Diagnostic data and tools are included to help your team prioritize, debug and fix exceptions fast. ...
- TrackJS
Production error monitoring and reporting for web applications. TrackJS provides deep insights into real user errors. See the user, network, and application events that tell the story of an error so you can actually fix them. ...
- Airbrake
Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast. ...
- Raygun
Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users with greater speed and accuracy. ...
- Honeybadger
Honeybadger does more than report errors, it helps you work with your team to fix them. Errors can be assigned. You can comment via email. And a fine-grained permissions system means you control who has access to each specific project. ...
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Datadog
- Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)135
- Easy setup106
- Powerful ui86
- Powerful integrations82
- Great value69
- Great visualization53
- Events + metrics = clarity45
- Custom metrics40
- Notifications40
- Flexibility38
- Free & paid plans18
- Great customer support15
- Makes my life easier14
- Adapts automatically as i scale up9
- Easy setup and plugins8
- Super easy and powerful7
- AWS support6
- In-context collaboration6
- Rich in features5
- Docker support4
- Cost4
- Automation tools3
- Source control and bug tracking3
- Simple, powerful, great for infra3
- Cute logo3
- Expensive3
- Easy to Analyze3
- Full visibility of applications3
- Monitor almost everything3
- Best than others3
- Good for Startups2
- Free setup2
- Best in the field2
- APM1
- Expensive18
- No errors exception tracking4
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging2
- Complicated1
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Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.
We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.









We are looking for a centralised monitoring solution for our application deployed on Amazon EKS. We would like to monitor using metrics from Kubernetes, AWS services (NeptuneDB, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, etc) and application microservice's custom metrics.
We are expected to use around 80 microservices (not replicas). I think a total of 200-250 microservices will be there in the system with 10-12 slave nodes.
We tried Prometheus but it looks like maintenance is a big issue. We need to manage scaling, maintaining the storage, and dealing with multiple exporters and Grafana. I felt this itself needs few dedicated resources (at least 2-3 people) to manage. Not sure if I am thinking in the correct direction. Please confirm.
You mentioned Datadog and Sysdig charges per host. Does it charge per slave node?
- Consolidates similar errors by impact73
- Centralize error management64
- Slack integration63
- Github integration58
- Usage based pricing47
- Insane customer support32
- Instant search23
- Heroku integration21
- Consolidate errors by OS18
- Great Free Plan15
- Trello integration15
- Flexible logging (not just exceptions)13
- Simple yet powerful error tracking tool11
- Multiple Language Support9
- Consolidate errors by browser7
- Query errors with RQL6
- Easy setup6
- Deployment tracking is a nice free bonus5
- Best rails exception handler5
- Awesome service5
- Simple and fast integration5
- Easy setup, friendly ui, demo, lots of integrations4
- Beat your users to the error report3
- Errors Analysis3
- Server-side + client-side3
- Powerful3
- Clear and concise information.3
- Easy integration with sails.js2
- Mailgun integration2
- Bitbucket integration2
- Easy Set up familiar UI that doesn't make you look dumb1
- Teams1
- Clear errors on deploy or push1
- Gitlab integration1
- User0
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Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.
We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.
Crashlytics
- Crash tracking78
- Mobile exception tracking56
- Free53
- Easy deployment37
- Ios25
- Great ui15
- Great reports11
- Android10
- Advanced Logging8
- Monitor Tester Lifecycle7
- Mac APP and IDE Plugins3
- Great User Experience3
- In Real-Time3
- iOS SDK3
- Security3
- Android SDK3
- The UI is simple and it just works2
- Best UI2
- Light2
- Real-time2
- Seamless2
- Painless App Distribution2
- Crash Reporting2
- Beta distribution2
- Mobile Analytics2
- Deep Workflow Integration2
- IOS QA Deploy and tracking1
- Easy iOS Integration1
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Bugsnag
- Lots of 3rd party integrations45
- Really reliable42
- Includes a free plan37
- No usage or rate limits25
- Design23
- Slack integration21
- Responsive support21
- Free tier19
- Unlimited11
- No Rate6
- Email notifications5
- Great customer support3
- React Native3
- Integrates well with Laravel3
- Reliable, great UI and insights, used for all our apps3
- Bad billing model1
- Error grouping doesn't always work1
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For my portfolio websites and my personal OpenSource projects I had started exclusively using React and JavaScript so I needed a way to track any errors that we're happening for my users that I didn't uncover during my personal UAT.
I had narrowed it down to two tools LogRocket and Sentry (I also tried Bugsnag but it did not make the final two). Before I get into this I want to say that both of these tools are amazing and whichever you choose will suit your needs well.
I firstly decided to go with LogRocket the fact that they had a recorded screen capture of what the user was doing when the bug happened was amazing... I could go back and rewatch what the user did to replicate that error, this was fantastic. It was also very easy to setup and get going. They had options for React and Redux.js so you can track all your Redux.js actions. I had a fairly large Redux.js store, this was ended up being a issue, it killed the processing power on my machine, Chrome ended up using 2-4gb of ram, so I quickly disabled the Redux.js option.
After using LogRocket for a month or so I decided to switch to Sentry. I noticed that Sentry was openSorce and everyone was talking about Sentry so I thought I may as well give it a test drive. Setting it up was so easy, I had everything up and running within seconds. It also gives you the option to wrap an errorBoundry in React so get more specific errors. The simplicity of Sentry was a breath of fresh air, it allowed me find the bug that was shown to the user and fix that very simply. The UI for Sentry is beautiful and just really clean to look at, and their emails are also just perfect.
I have decided to stick with Sentry for the long run, I tested pretty much all the JS error loggers and I find Sentry the best.
There’s a tool called LeakCanary that was built by the team at Square. It detects memory allocations and can spot when this scenario is occurring. LeakCanary has been billed as a memory leak detection library for #Android (and you’ll be happy to know there’s a Bugsnag integration for it as well!).
- Great error reporting12
- Great experience. Neat reporting2
- Awesome engineer support2
- Easy Setup2
- Telemetry Timeline2
- Realtime alerts1
- Slack Integration1
- Vivastreet0
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- Reliable28
- Consolidates similar errors25
- Easy setup22
- Slack Integration15
- Github Integration10
- Email notifications7
- Includes a free plan6
- Android Application to view errors.5
- Search and filtering4
- Shows request parameters4
- Heroku integration2
- Rejects error report if non-latin characters exists0
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- Easy setup and brilliant features31
- Integrates with many tools I use (e.g. GitHub, HipChat)19
- Huge range of programming languages supported19
- Support for JavaScript source maps17
- Makes my job so much easier17
- No rate limiting16
- I have so much love for Raygun. Amazing support too15
- Works with Xamarin (including native iOS crashes)15
- Unlimited team sizes on all levels14
- Responsive and fast app13
- Easy setup, fast reporting, and constantly improving9
- Great customer support and awesome T-shirts8
- Real user monitoring3
- Custom dashboards for software health2
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Honeybadger
- Rails integration8
- Easy setup8
- Github integration4
- Slack Integration3
- Javascript integration3
- Developer friendly error analysis2
- Shows request parameters1
- Java integration1
- Email notifications1
- Provides context, and great stack trace1
- Consolidates similar errors1