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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sentry

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASentry provides engineering teams with tools to detect and solve user-impacting bugs and other issues.

    $26

    per month

    AlertSite

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.N/A
    Pricing
    SentryAlertSite
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $26
    per month
    Business
    $80
    per month
    Developer
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SentryAlertSite
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SentryAlertSite
    Considered Both Products
    Sentry
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    SmartBear
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Features
    SentryAlertSite
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Sentry and AlertSite
    Feature
    Sentry
    -
    Ratings
    AlertSite
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings6.53 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
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    SentryAlertSite
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    Airbrake
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    User Ratings
    SentryAlertSite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SentryAlertSite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sentry
    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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    SmartBear
    AlertSite is used in our organization to monitor our website and web applications in real-time to collect the super important metrics reflecting web page load time but from the user end (E2E) and that approaches helps us to understand what our website is experiencing in real-time.
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    Pros
    Sentry
    • Great web interface. Lots of data available in a really clean format, with filtering options and more.
    • Per-user exception tracking. User is complaining about something being broken? Look up their account ID in Sentry and you can see if they've run into any exceptions (with device information included, of course).
    • Source map uploading. Took a little while to figure this out but now we have our deploy script upload sourcemaps to Sentry on each deployment, meaning we get to see stack traces that aren't obfuscated!
    • Very generous free tier – 10,000 events per month. We're nowhere near that yet.
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    SmartBear
    • The Deja-Click Recorder is an excellent tool.
    • Good UI that translates to large NOC screens well.
    • Easy Alerting and Reporting.
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    Cons
    Sentry
    • Alert Configuration. Would be really helpful to have multiple logical groupings within the "If" section of a single configurable alert.
    • Alert Copying. Being able to copy an alert from one project to another would be super beneficial.
    • Alert Tags. Better UI around how we select which tags are getting sent with each alert instead of a tiny text box.
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    SmartBear
    • Tool is complicated for Alert creation
    • AlertSite GUI need improvement. As compared to Datadog, it needs improvement in GUI
    • While using AlertSite, many times we faced false alerting, they need to take a look at it to improve performance.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    Reviewing other cost saving options
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    Pretty good product only issue was cost
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    Support Rating
    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    I've been unable to contact support after several attempts.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sentry
    We used Rollbar but didn't like the configuration its not easy. And also doesn't support wide features like Sentry although its a cheaper option but doesn't have the dash-boarding like Sentry and its was not easy to integrate webhooks for different purposes. Somehow many people in company where not able to understand Rollbar dashboard who were very much used to Sentry.
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    SmartBear
    We moved all of our services to Site24x7 after several years with AlertSite. We looked at Uptrends and Pingdom to name a few whilst evaluating options. Pingdom lacks functionality and Uptrends we found to have quite a steep learning curve. AlertSites platform and in particular the Deja-Click recorder is a standout tool against the other platforms. Sadly the upscaling costs of multi-location transactions can quickly add up.
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    Return on Investment
    Sentry
    • It helped stabilize our system in the beginning
    • We had to take it down later due to internal reasons and majorly because of cost-cutting process
    • If someone has a unstable system and have no way to figure out what to do, can use sentry at least temporarily along with some other APM to fix their system faster
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    SmartBear
    • A negative thing is Monitoring locations would have issues and cause false-positive alerts and due to that monitoring team's repetitive work has increased.
    • A positive thing that I have noticed so far is the fact that the AlertSite customers support team is trying to build relationships and go the extra mile to make sure we can overcome any occurring issues and they are quick to respond and provide sufficient guidance for implementing efficiently, and fix products issues.
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