Sentry
Application monitoring for every developer — see what breaks and why.
About Sentry
Sentry is the leading open-source error tracking and performance monitoring platform. It captures errors, exceptions, and performance issues in real-time across frontend, backend, and mobile applications — providing stack traces, breadcrumbs, and context to help developers fix bugs faster.
Key Features
- Real-time error tracking and alerting
- Performance monitoring (traces, transactions)
- Session replay (see what users experienced)
- Release tracking and deploy detection
- Breadcrumbs and stack traces with context
- Cron monitoring
- Profiling
- Open-source and self-hostable
Pros
- Industry-leading error tracking — used by millions of developers
- SDKs for every major language and framework
- Session replay provides visual context for bugs
- Generous free tier (5k errors, 10k transactions/month)
Cons
- Can generate a lot of noise without proper configuration
- Pricing can spike with high error volumes
- Performance monitoring is less comprehensive than Datadog
Integrations
Best Use Cases
- Error tracking and bug resolution
- Frontend and backend performance monitoring
- Release health monitoring
- Session replay for debugging
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Quick Info
- Website
- sentry.io
- Founded
- 2012
- Company
- 500-1000
- Pricing
- freemium
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