Sentry

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free plan

Free plan

Developer: 5K errors/month, 1 user

Open source

Source available (FSL-1.1-ALv2)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2008

Status

Active

Website

sentry.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Error and crash tracking checklist

10 of 10 confirmed in Sentry's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Errors.

• + Error grouping Yes
• + Source maps Yes
• + Release tracking Yes
• + Mobile crash reporting Yes
• + Breadcrumbs or context Yes
• + New issue alerts Yes
• + Issue tracker integration Yes
• + Performance monitoring Yes
• + Session replay Yes
• + Broad SDK coverage Yes

Checked against: docs.sentry.io, docs.sentry.io (2), docs.sentry.io (3), docs.sentry.io (4), docs.sentry.io (5), docs.sentry.io (6)

Tracing and APM checklist

9 of 10 confirmed in Sentry's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Tracing and APM.

• + Distributed tracing Yes
• + OTLP traces ingest Yes
• ? Service map Not confirmed
• + Auto-instrumentation Yes
• + Database query analysis Yes
• + Error capture Yes
• + Latency and error alerts Yes
• + Trace to log correlation Yes
• + Sampling controls Yes
• + Code-level detail Yes

Auto-instrumentation comes from the SDK once it is initialised in code.

Checked against: docs.sentry.io, docs.sentry.io (2), docs.sentry.io (3), docs.sentry.io (4), docs.sentry.io (5), docs.sentry.io (6)

Real user monitoring and session replay checklist

8 of 9 confirmed in Sentry's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in RUM and replay.

• + Core Web Vitals Yes
• + Session replay Yes
• + JavaScript errors Yes
• + Mobile SDKs Yes
• + Resource timing Yes
• + Segmentation Yes
• + Alerts Yes
• + Privacy masking Yes
• ? Journeys or funnels Not confirmed

No product-analytics funnels documented.

Checked against: docs.sentry.io, docs.sentry.io (2), docs.sentry.io (3), docs.sentry.io (4), docs.sentry.io (5), docs.sentry.io (6)

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