Sentry Overview

Sentry empowers developers and software teams to swiftly address application errors and enhance performance. It offers real-time error tracking and application performance monitoring, enabling teams to identify and resolve issues with precision. Sentry's platform includes features like error monitoring, tracing, session replay, and code coverage, which collectively provide a comprehensive view of application health. This enables teams to reduce downtime and improve user experience. A noteworthy aspect is its focus on continuous learning, allowing teams to refine their processes and code quality over time. Sentry's tools are designed for seamless integration into existing workflows, ensuring that teams can maintain high productivity levels while managing software reliability.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Workflow Management, Engagement Management, Sending & Publishing Communications, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Sentry.

Other use cases:

  • Onboarding
  • Helpdesk Management
  • Tracking & Monitoring Communications
  • Lead Tracking
  • Products & Pricelist Management
  • Collaboration
  • Lead Qualification: Technographic
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Business Priorities

Improve Efficiency and Acquire Customers are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Sentry.

Other priorities:

  • Scale Best Practices
  • Enhance Customer Relationships
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Sentry Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Sentry works with different mediums / channels such as E-Mail.

Sentry's features include Alerts: Popups & Notifications, Dashboard, Personalization, etc. and Sentry support capabilities include AI Powered, Chat Support, 24/7 Support, etc. also Sentry analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"If a user sees an error, we’re notified immediately." - Travis Beck

Peer review evidence (same sources as the product rating summary)

"...As a product manager, these are tools that you can introduce into your development workflow to help your team automate tasks that would take a very long time to spin up a backend for or even manage...." Practices to help you become a technical product manager
"...Google also provides a command line tool (gcloud) that also allows users to interact with GCP APIs...." Life at Sentry: Meet Our 2018 Summer Interns
"...Sentry needs to be able to send emails..." Run Sentry Error Monitoring on EC2

Sentry, Bonjoro, Sage Expense Management (formerly Fyle), Retool, Sublime text, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Collaboration and Productivity. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Sentry provides self-hosted and cloud-based application performance monitoring and error tracking. It helps software teams see clearer, solve quicker, and continuously learn.

Popular Business Setting

for Sentry

Top Industries

  • Internet
  • Computer Software
  • Entertainment

Popular in

  • Enterprise
  • Mid Market
  • Small Business

Sentry is popular in Internet, Computer Software, and Entertainment and is widely used by Enterprise, Mid Market, and Small Business.

Sentry Customer wins, Customer success stories, Case studies

Why is Sentry the best choice for Workflow Management?

How does Sentry facilitate Engagement Management?

How can Sentry optimize your Sending & Publishing Communications Workflow?

What benefits does Sentry offer for Onboarding?

What Are the key features of Sentry for Helpdesk Management?

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Sentry solved their Collaboration and Productivity needs. Cuspera uses 2359 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Collaboration and Productivity needs.

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Sentry testimonial

Travis Beck

Software Engineer

Optimizely

If a user sees an error, we’re notified immediately. Testimonial By Travis Beck
Sentry testimonial

Mohmoud Hashemi

Director of Engineering

SimpleLegal

Our Team no longer hears about server errors from our support team. In fact, these days, we let them know when a client is having trouble and we've got a ticket underway. Testimonial By Mohmoud Hashemi
Sentry testimonial

Devin Ozel

Senior Software Engineer

Volley

Sentry has become part of my daily routine. Every morning, I check to see if there are any new issues, and look at yesterday’s performance to see if any of our latest changes affect it negatively or positively. Testimonial By Devin Ozel
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Sentry testimonial

Travis Beck

Software Engineer

Optimizely

If a user sees an error, we’re notified immediately. Testimonial By Travis Beck
Sentry testimonial

Mohmoud Hashemi

Director of Engineering

SimpleLegal

Our Team no longer hears about server errors from our support team. In fact, these days, we let them know when a client is having trouble and we've got a ticket underway. Testimonial By Mohmoud Hashemi
Sentry testimonial

Devin Ozel

Senior Software Engineer

Volley

Sentry has become part of my daily routine. Every morning, I check to see if there are any new issues, and look at yesterday’s performance to see if any of our latest changes affect it negatively or positively. Testimonial By Devin Ozel
 

Yuki - Accounting - Medium

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sentry helped Yuki, an automated accounting platform, improve app stability and developer confidence. Before Sentry, Yuki struggled to monitor errors and performance issues, especially during peak us...age. Sentry's error and performance monitoring tools gave engineers visibility into user impact and root causes. With Sentry, Yuki reduced issue resolution time from 2 days to 2 hours. The team now prioritizes fixes based on real user data and quickly addresses critical problems.

 

Wellhub - Health, Wellness And Fitness - Large

São Paulo, Brazil

Wellhub used Sentry to monitor their React Native mobile app. Their old monitoring tool made it hard to find and fix crashes. Sentry gave them better crash reporting, source map support, and faster d...ebugging. The team could now assign issues, share data, and track app stability. Sentry also helped them improve app performance and collaborate across teams.

 

Volley - Entertainment - Small

San Francisco, USA

Sentry helped Volley, a leader in voice-controlled games for Alexa and Google Home, improve Song Quiz performance. Volley rebuilt Song Quiz and used Sentry’s monitoring to spot slow user interactions... and high memory use. By moving a key subscription check, they cut launch times in half and boosted Apdex scores. Sentry became a daily tool for tracking issues and trends, helping Volley deliver a smoother user experience.

 

Virta Health - Hospital & Health Care - Medium

San Francisco, USA

Virta Health used Sentry to monitor their frontend, backend, and mobile services. Before Sentry, engineers manually tracked errors and relied on support tickets. Sentry integrated with PagerDuty and ...Jira, providing real-time alerts and structured error triage. The team now resolves critical issues three times faster. Sentry's tools help Virta track releases, identify root causes, and improve collaboration.

 

Uscreen - Internet - Small

Washington, USA

Sentry helps Uscreen, a leading VOD platform, monitor and fix errors fast. Uscreen uses Sentry to catch issues before they impact video creators and their audiences. Sentry enabled Uscreen to quickly... resolve a broken GIF service, avoiding a week-long drop in viewer conversions. The platform also saves Uscreen's support team time, letting them focus on customer success. Sentry's integrations with Slack and Jira streamline error triage for Uscreen's 25-person engineering team.

 

Tilled - Financial Services - Small

Boulder, USA

Tilled uses Sentry’s application performance monitoring to track and improve API performance. The team gains detailed visibility into endpoint issues and database events. Sentry helps Tilled maintain... 99.98% API availability. Developers can focus on user experience and innovation. Session replay and context alerts support fast problem resolution.

Troubleshooting Performance Problems | Launch Week | March 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Sentry

What is Sentry?

Sentry is an Application monitoring platform that helps developers diagnose, track, fix, and optimize the performance of their code enabling quicker shipping of their software. Sentry can be deployed across businesses of all sizes, and supports more than 30 coding languages, and integrates with most of the popular business tools.

Sentry features include stack traces, identification of performance bottlenecks, discovery of the trail of events leading to the error using breadcrumbs, and tracking of fixes with the respective versions.Sentry’s query builder tool Discover can be used for monitoring data in real-time.

The Enterprise version of Sentry includes cross-functional visibility enabling product support and more, scaling and high availability, and reliability.

What is Sentry used for?

Sentry is a Collaboration and Productivity Software mainly used by its customers to Improve Efficiency and Acquire Customers by Workflow Management, Engagement Management and Sending & Publishing Communications .

What are the top features of Sentry?

Alerts: popups & Notifications, Dashboard and Personalization are some of the top features of Sentry.

Who uses Sentry?

Sentry is used by Internet, Computer Software and Entertainment among other industries.

What are Sentry alternatives?

Bonjoro, Sage Expense Management (Formerly Fyle), Retool and Sublime Text are popular alternatives for Sentry.

Where is Sentry located?

Sentry is headquartered at 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.
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Peers used Sentry for workflow management and engagement management

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.00/5

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Analytics

3.64/5

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Custom Reports

2.87/5

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.00/5

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Analytics

3.64/5

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Custom Reports

2.87/5

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Functional Software, Inc. News

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Sentry Introduces Application Metrics: High-Cardinality, Trace-Connected Metrics for Application Debugging

Sentry has launched Application Metrics, enhancing its observability suite by integrating high-cardinality, trace-connected metrics for application debugging. This feature allows developers to query telemetry data without predefined aggregations, facilitating immediate insights into application issues. The tool connects metric events directly to traces, eliminating manual data correlation and improving debugging efficiency.

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Sentry Seer Agent Redefines Debugging with Agentic AI

Sentry has launched Seer Agent, a new capability that enhances debugging by using agentic AI and natural language processing. This tool allows developers to troubleshoot complex software environments by querying data in natural language, reducing investigation time from hours to minutes. Integrated with Slack, Seer Agent facilitates collaborative debugging, enabling teams to address issues collectively. Key features include natural language investigation, deep contextual connectivity, and actionable handoffs for immediate code fixes.

Product

Sentrys Seer Agent lets developers debug production issues in natural language

Sentry introduces Seer Agent, enabling developers to debug production issues using natural language, enhancing application performance monitoring and error tracking capabilities.

Product

Sentry Launches Seer Agent, Enabling Developers to Investigate Any Production Problem in Plain Language

Sentry has launched Seer Agent, a new feature in its AI debugging platform, enabling developers to investigate production issues using natural language. Seer Agent leverages Sentry's telemetry data to quickly identify and resolve problems, significantly reducing debugging time. It is integrated with Slack, allowing collaborative investigations. Seer Agent is available in beta for all Sentry users.

Functional Software, Inc. Profile

Company Name

Functional Software, Inc.

Company Website

https://sentry.io/welcome/

Year Founded

2011

HQ Location

132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

Employees

51-100

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Financials

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