Request Metrics vs Sentry
About Request Metrics
Request Metrics is a simplified observability tool that monitors your system as the end-user. It combines business insights with engineering metrics to give you comprehensive visibility into your application with minimal tool overhead. It's good for high performing cross functional teams.
About Sentry
Sentry is a venture-funded error reporting service used by large software teams. It integrates with multiple platforms to pull error and performance data from your systems. With a large installation surface and powerful data reporting, it's good for teams with dedicated monitoring engineers or SREs.
Request Metrics |
Sentry |
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Client-Side Observability |
Error Reporting |
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| Core Features | ||
| Web Analytics | ||
| Product Analytics | ||
| User Experience Monitoring | ||
| Performance Monitoring | ||
| Error Reporting | ||
| API Monitoring | ||
| Website Integrity Monitoring | ||
| Distributed Tracing | ||
| Data Reporting | ||
| Data Filtering | Included | Extra |
| Custom Data | KVP Metadata | Tagging |
| Dashboards | Built In | Custom |
| Data Grouping | ||
| Fast Filtering | ||
| Complex Custom Queries | ||
| Support | ||
| Documentation | ||
| Email Support | ||
| Live Support | ||
| Supported By | Engineers | Tier 1 Support |
| Value | ||
| Price for 1M Sessions | $100/mo | $244/mo |
| Data Retention | 90 Days | 90 Days |
| Sustainability | Self-Owned and Profitable | Venture Funded |
Why Request Metrics is better than Sentry?
Finding Problems that Matter
Not every error, API bug, or performance slowdown impacts the users. Request Metrics helps you focus on the problems that matter by showing you issues correlated with key business metrics like conversions, bounces, or session time.
No Queries–Just Answers
No data model or query language to learn. Interesting activity is surfaced automatically, with easy filtering options to explore.
Pricing that Doesn't Hold Your Data Hostage
Tools like Sentry price by the number of events you send. When you have an incident with millions of extra logs, they take advantage by increasing your price, hiding your data, or metering your usage.
Request Metrics aligns it's price with your success instead of your failure. You only pay more when you monitor more users and sessions. Events and errors are always included.