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Runbook vs Sentry: What are the differences?

Developers describe Runbook as "Infrastructure Monitoring with Automated Remediation". Runbook is a SaaS application that monitors your servers and performs automated tasks when your monitors fails. Use Runbook to automatically recover from application crashes and unexpected failure without interrupting your service or your well earned sleep!. On the other hand, Sentry is detailed as "See performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize code health". Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.

Runbook and Sentry are primarily classified as "Remote Server Task Execution" and "Exception Monitoring" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Runbook are:

  • Monitors are used to check the status of your environment. They can be webhooks that call to the Runbook RESTful API, they can be Datadog alerts, they can be ping requests. Or, you can setup our TCP custom port to validate connectivity.
  • Reactions are automated tasks that are called when Monitors fail. It can be anything from starting or restarting servers on AWS, Digital Ocean, or elsewhere, to running a custom script or executing a command. You know, all the first things you try when you get a 4am wake-up call
  • Integrated with the tools you use today: Heroku, Salt, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Logentries

On the other hand, Sentry provides the following key features:

  • Real-Time Updates: For the first time, developers can fix code-level issues anywhere in the stack well before users even encounter an error.
  • Complete Context: Spend more time where it matters, rather than investing in low-impact issues.
  • Integrate Everywhere: Drop-in integration for every major platform, framework, and language -- JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Node, Java, .NET, mobile.

Runbook and Sentry are both open source tools. Sentry with 27.8K GitHub stars and 3.12K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Runbook with 195 GitHub stars and 56 GitHub forks.

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      Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy
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      Email Notifications
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      Open source
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      Slack integration
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      Github integration
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      Easy
    • 44
      User-friendly interface
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      The most important tool we use in production
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      Hipchat integration
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      Heroku Integration
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      Good documentation
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      Free tier
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      Self-hosted
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      Easy setup
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      Realiable
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      Provides context, and great stack trace
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      Feedback form on error pages
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      Love it baby
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      Gitlab integration
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      Filter by custom tags
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      Super user friendly
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      Captures local variables at each frame in backtraces
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      Easy Integration
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        Confusing UI
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      What is Runbook?

      Runbook is a SaaS application that monitors your servers and performs automated tasks when your monitors fails. Use Runbook to automatically recover from application crashes and unexpected failure without interrupting your service or your well earned sleep!

      What is Sentry?

      Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.

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