Sentry
What Is Sentry?
With support for 99 platforms as well as single-tenant offerings, Sentry is essential for monitoring application code health. From Error tracking to Performance monitoring, developers can see Read more clearer, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Read lessWho Uses Sentry?
Loved by over 3.5 million developers and more than 87,000 organizations worldwide, Sentry provides code-level observability to many of the world’s best-known companies like Disney, Instacart, & Slack.
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Reviews of Sentry
Maxim
Sentry has been a default backend error tracker for years
Comments: We didn't have to configure and support anything for error tracking and alerting, Sentry is really a one-click solution
Pros:
- Very easy to integrate with python projects - Nice UI, trace page has all the context, you may potentially need to debug - Can post exceptions right into Slack
Cons:
No cons so far. I think I was confused by the UI navigation a few time, but I was able to figure everything out by myself eventually.
Aivar
When something goes wrong, you'll see exactly what and why
Comments: Sentry allows me to catch bugs in the live environment and captures all of the relevant information that led to them.
Pros:
Easy to set up Lots of details about each error Ability to quickly ignore, postpone, assign errors
Cons:
A little bit hard to search through the resolved issues Emails about new errors sometimes go to spam, with multiple emails providers
Chris
Very powerful, but can be confusing to set up
Pros:
Sentry is an awesome tool for developers looking to collect errors in one place. The data log is really nice and it's great to be able to get email alerts.
Cons:
If you're using one of the premade libraries for an existing framework, it's very easy to get started. But if you aren't working within a framework and need to set up the integration yourself it can be somewhat confusing. Sentry is born out of a previous/older project called Raven, and the Raven name is still referenced which makes it sometimes confusing to find up-to-date documentation.
Verified Reviewer
Sentry Experience
Comments: The experience was very good . I Have used it in many apps. A must try tool for error and performance montioring.
Pros:
1. Easy to setup in projects like flutter , nodejs , strapi. 2. See related data in one place like issues or performance issue. 3. Details info for an issue . It's easy to identify the bug. 4. extra info like crash free session and releases are very helpful. 5. Docs are easy to find and well organised.
Cons:
1. Need a bit of knowledge of error reporting to work 2. Some kind of tutorial video or detailed blogs are needed to use. 3. The team plan is very pricy 26$ per month. 4. No benefit for student or startups.
Dilraj
Easy to configure Backend alerts for your production environment
Comments: Overall experience was really good with production alerts being fired anytime there was an exception or an outage on the backend server.
Pros:
Sentry can be easily integrated with your platform for generating email alerts for any issues on production backend server. Be it an exception on the server or the outage, sentry will send an alert to your email and once you login to the dashboard, you can easily see the stack trace for the error which occurred on the server along with the frequency of occurring error. Sentry integration is available for different programming languages.
Cons:
Setting it up with your backend server for the first time can take some time. Also we faced some issues with integrating the HTTPS sentry link with Node.js. Other than that, its a great tool in helping you keeping your production environment available 24/7.
