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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.
Pros of Runbook
Pros of Sentry
- Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy238
- Email Notifications121
- Open source108
- Slack integration84
- Github integration71
- Easy49
- User-friendly interface44
- The most important tool we use in production28
- Hipchat integration18
- Heroku Integration17
- Good documentation15
- Free tier14
- Self-hosted11
- Easy setup9
- Realiable7
- Provides context, and great stack trace6
- Feedback form on error pages4
- Love it baby4
- Gitlab integration3
- Filter by custom tags3
- Super user friendly3
- Captures local variables at each frame in backtraces3
- Easy Integration3
- Performance measurements1
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Cons of Runbook
Cons of Sentry
- Confusing UI12
- Bundle size4