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Are you paying for Sentry? What type of monitoring does it provide? I'm working on a project I'd like to add some monitoring so I'm on the lookout for a good so

Are you paying for Sentry? What type of monitoring does it provide? I'm working on a project I'd like to add some monitoring so I'm on the lookout for a good solution. Looking for something free though until there's a need to have better insight than I can get without paying for it

benaduggan 4y ago
My team got really far using something called GlitchTip. It's compatible with the Sentry SDKs, but really cheap, so it felt like there were minimal consequences to switch if we ever had the need to. We only switched to Sentry cause our company was acquired and they already had a Sentry subscription going.
- monroewalker 4y ago
  Hadn't heard of GlitchTip, but will look into it. Thanks!
kevincox 4y ago
I'm using the Sentry free tier and it is great. The main value is how to managed repeated errors. You can group different exceptions for the "same" error, resolve errors that have been fixed or ignore known errors until they occur to more users, more often or what have you. If you are good about squashing errors you can make it very far on the free plan. Plus they have some burst detection built in. Just make sure that "expected" errors aren't just ignored in the UI, stop emitting them in the app itself so they don't count towards your quota (and it keeps your logs tidy). I haven't been using their tracing or anything because their Rust SDK doesn't seem to support it despite claiming that it does (or I have set it up wrong).
- monroewalker 4y ago
  Thank you for elaborating, this is useful :)
partly_cloudy 4y ago
i am not! right now, i'm mostly just using it for performance monioring - how many MS are my queries taking and how long are my first-contentful paints on the front-end also for errors from the BE and FE
t0mbstone 4y ago
You can self-host Sentry in a docker container. It's pretty easy to get running, and essentially free.

benaduggan 4y ago

My team got really far using something called GlitchTip. It's compatible with the Sentry SDKs, but really cheap, so it felt like there were minimal consequences to switch if we ever had the need to. We only switched to Sentry cause our company was acquired and they already had a Sentry subscription going.

monroewalker 4y ago
Hadn't heard of GlitchTip, but will look into it. Thanks!

kevincox 4y ago

I'm using the Sentry free tier and it is great. The main value is how to managed repeated errors. You can group different exceptions for the "same" error, resolve errors that have been fixed or ignore known errors until they occur to more users, more often or what have you. If you are good about squashing errors you can make it very far on the free plan. Plus they have some burst detection built in. Just make sure that "expected" errors aren't just ignored in the UI, stop emitting them in the app itself so they don't count towards your quota (and it keeps your logs tidy). I haven't been using their tracing or anything because their Rust SDK doesn't seem to support it despite claiming that it does (or I have set it up wrong).

monroewalker 4y ago
Thank you for elaborating, this is useful :)

partly_cloudy 4y ago

i am not! right now, i'm mostly just using it for performance monioring - how many MS are my queries taking and how long are my first-contentful paints on the front-end also for errors from the BE and FE

t0mbstone 4y ago

You can self-host Sentry in a docker container. It's pretty easy to get running, and essentially free.