Comprehensive Web Application Monitoring with Performance and Analytic Insights
August 28, 2023

Comprehensive Web Application Monitoring with Performance and Analytic Insights

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sentry

Proactive web application monitoring, performance monitoring in production, crash reporting and error logging. Allows us to autonomously monitor a variety of web apps, sites, back end processes and the like with automated tools, scheduled scanning, comprehensive reporting and a relatively easy to use/understand dashboard. Excellent for providing client visibility.

Pros

  • Comprehensive toolkit, wide variety of monitoring/tracking/testing metrics.
  • Excellent developer workflow integrations (Jira, ClickUP, Slack., etc.)
  • Gives depth to basic web analytics (causes of performance issues etc.)

Cons

  • Can be extremely complex to implement, especially if you have a variety of different platform stacks
  • Learning curve for setting up/understanding dashboards/output.
  • Complex pricing model for certain applications.
  • Automated scanning.
  • Error inspection and crash detection alerts
  • Daily email summaries and automation emails.
  • Relatively intensive layer of protection and prevention.
  • Provides insights to developers as to the nature of code issues.
  • Provides insights to optimize code performance.
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.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Sentry go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sentry again?

Yes

Great for standard web application performance monitoring, analytics and error reporting. Shows line level code errors, gives insight into performance issues (plugins, API issues, etc.). Automation and scheduled scanning in production gives client visibility into 'after deployment' value. Also lets a relatively small number of developers keep tabs on a handful of different site/applications without needing a bunch of tools. The UI is pretty complicated and can be overwhelming for new users. Documentation could be better for the learning curve,

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