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Sentry

Application monitoring platform for developers covering error monitoring, tracing, session replay, profiling, logs, cron monitoring and application metrics across many languages and frameworks.

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Overview

Sentry collects errors and performance data from applications through SDKs for more than 20 platforms and 60 frameworks, including JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, .NET, mobile and game engines. Its products include error monitoring, tracing, session replay, profiling, structured logs, cron monitoring and application metrics.

It suits engineering teams that want to find and debug production problems at code level. Plans include fixed quotas for errors, spans, replays and logs, with extra usage on some plans billed at additional rates.

Data storage region options (US or EU) are described in the docs.

Pricing

Free plan available; paid plans from USD 26 per month, billed annually

Prices checked on October 24, 2026 from the vendor's official page. Vendors change prices; confirm before buying. How we check prices. Official pricing page (opens in a new tab)

Who it's for

Software engineering teams that need error and performance monitoring for production applications.

Key features

  • Error monitoring and issue search
  • Tracing and spans for performance monitoring
  • Session Replay
  • Profiling in production
  • Structured logs and application metrics
  • Cron monitoring
  • SDKs for 20+ platforms and 60+ frameworks

Pros and limitations

Pros

  • Free Developer plan with stated quotas
  • Broad SDK coverage

Limitations

  • Developer plan is limited to 1 user and 5k errors
  • Additional logs and metrics on some plans are billed at extra rates (e.g. +$0.50/GB)
  • Data retention lookback is 30 days on Developer and up to 90 days on Team and Business

Use cases

  • Debugging production errors
  • Finding slow transactions
  • Monitoring scheduled jobs

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How this page was researched

This page is based on desk research of the vendor's public pages and documentation. SIDAN Stack has not tested this product hands-on. How we research. Last verified: October 24, 2026.

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