Datadog vs Sentry

The best way to compare Datadog vs Sentry: features, plans, pricing, error reporting, ignore rules, bug tracking, support and more.

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Datadog

Datadog
Monitoring, Security, and Digital Experience platform for big enterprise.
Sentry

Sentry
Sentry provides real-time crash reporting for your web apps, mobile apps, and games.

Pricing & Plans

Datadog Pricing

  • 14 Day Free Trial
  • Annual Discount
  • Billing Model
    Metered Event-Based
  • Pro @ 100,000 Events
    $54
    Errors: 100,000
    Retention: 15 Days
    Custom Events: 500
  • Pro @ 500,000 Events
    $198
    Errors: 500,000
    Retention: 15 Days
    Custom Events: 500
  • Enterprise @ 1,000,000 Events
    $387
    Errors: 1,000,000
    Retention: 15 Days
    Custom Events: 1000

Sentry Pricing

  • 14 Day Free Trial
  • Annual Discount
  • Billing Model
    Metered Event-Based
  • Developer
    $0/month
    Users: 1
    Errors: 5,000
    Retention: 30 Days
  • Team
    $114/month+
    Users: Unlimited
    Errors: 500,000
    Retention: 90 Days
  • Business
    $484/month+
    Users: Unlimited
    Errors: 1,000,000
    Retention: 90 Days

Error Monitoring and Reporting

Datadog Error Monitoring

  • Reporting Capability
  • Frontend Error Tracking
  • Backend Error Tracking
  • Sourcemapped Stack Traces
  • Error Breadcrumbs
    Uses Session Replay
  • Custom Metadata
  • Data Quality
  • Configured Sampling
  • Server Side Filtering
    Configuration Required
  • Custom Error Grouping
  • Reporting Capability
  • Pre-built Dashboards
  • Queryable Reports
  • Release Tracking
  • Custom SQL-like Queries
  • Alerting
  • Email and Chat Notifications
  • Issue Notifications
  • Email Summary Reports

Sentry Error Monitoring

  • Reporting Capability
  • Frontend Error Tracking
  • Backend Error Tracking
  • Sourcemapped Stack Traces
  • Error Breadcrumbs
    Limited info provided
  • Structured Context
  • Data Quality
  • Data Sampled
    Automatic server sampling
  • Server Side Filtering
    Only for Business plans
  • Custom Error Grouping
  • Reporting Capability
  • Pre-built Dashboards
  • Queryable Reports
    Only for Business plans
  • Release Tracking
  • Custom SQL-like Queries
  • Alerting
  • Email and Chat Notifications
  • Issue Notifications
  • Email Summary Reports

Support and Sustainability

Datadog Support & Sustainability

  • Outsourced Supported
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Funding Model
    Public

Sentry Support & Sustainability

  • Tiered Support
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Funding Model
    Venture Capital

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Datadog vs Sentry in Summary

Datadog is incumbent Enterprise Observability tool with broad capabilities and a high price tag, while Sentry is an upstart in that space with more targeted capability. Both have a high metered pricing plan. Datadog will be more useful for DevOps teams at large companies, while Sentry is for large engineering organizations looking to guarantee quality. For a lower-cost alternative focused on small teams for frontend error tracking, consider TrackJS.

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