Grafana Loki vs. Sentry

AWS integrations are easy, metrics are easily accesable Long term log insights need to be thought out and set up carefully

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[Sentry] is honestly an amazing product. It allows us to detect errors in real time complete with stack traces and any extra accompanying information the developer wants to provide in the alert. With the alerting into Slack it has allowed us to quickly triage and tag in people who need eyes on a specific issue. It would be really useful in any Saas product environment.

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• Integration with AWS
• Notifications land where they should
• Broad integration options

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• It collects very detailed information on problems that happen to our users while using the platform
• It supplies very good tools in order to aggregate the collected data and analyze it
• It integrates with Slack, making it easier to "monitor it in real time"

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• Offer log suggestions.
• Offer basic query syntax check.
• Offer data range controls.

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• if we could decrease the costing via some kind of sampling of errors.
• sometimes same error is in loop and Sentry will count all the events for pricing if there is any way this can be reduced.
• self hosted capabilities or using own storage to reduce cost.

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I think it is very developer minded and has a very high learning curve

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Loki is an essential complement to Grafana and provides logging metrics for dashboards and other visual tools. Loki can handle the service logging, while other data source plugins can provide more specific quantifiable metrics to support the logging data. Different types of metrics make a robust data dashboard.

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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.

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• Enable engineers to access logs quickly to distribute the workload.
• Provide a possible standard for log access between multiple services.
• Provide data metrics for customer use.

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• Error tracking is a must in any modern dynamic website or app. By looking into the error notifications I'm able to fix errors before anyone even has a chance to complain about them!
• Surprisingly, many website issues aren't showing up in Sentry, because they don't trigger exceptions. I'm interested in seeing if I can use Sentry to catch manually-triggered exceptions for "undesirable states" that my website can find itself in. Of course, that means I have to figure out how to have my client code recognize that it's in an undesirable state...

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