Sentry Performance

What Sentry Performance is

Sentry Performance is an application performance monitoring service for developers investigating bottlenecks in applications and distributed systems. It connects performance issues with related errors, transactions, and code details, helping teams assess user impact and investigate what to fix. Trace views and code context can surface slow database queries and API calls, along with the associated code lines. Distributed tracing follows requests across services to help locate where latency or errors enter a system.

Teams can prioritize performance issues by user impact and create custom metrics and alerts. Sentry supports OpenTelemetry and lists integrations including GitHub, Jira, Slack, GitLab, Linear, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Datadog, and Vercel. Its cloud service is hosted on Google Cloud Platform using a multi-tenant architecture; a self-hosted option is available for teams that need data in their own infrastructure. Trace retention is 90 days, and pricing is based on spans. The Developer plan is free, with monthly quotas for errors, replays, attachments, cron monitors, and uptime monitors; tracing is measured in spans. Paid plans start at $26/mo. Sentry offers a free trial for the Business plan, but not the Team plan; one-time trial extensions are 14 days. Users can access Sentry’s SOC 2 Type 2 report and ISO 27001 certificate through their account or by request.

Who it suits

Sentry Performance suits developers and teams diagnosing application slowdowns, especially when requests cross services and tracing can help locate where latency begins. It may also suit teams that want performance data connected to errors and code context, with a choice of cloud or self-hosted deployment.

Limits

The free Developer plan has monthly quotas for errors, replays, attachments, cron monitors, and uptime monitors; tracing is measured in spans. The Business plan has a free trial, while the Team plan does not; one-time trial extensions are 14 days.

Getting started

1. Visit Sentry’s application performance monitoring page.
2. Choose the free Developer plan or review paid plans starting at $26/mo.
3. For a trial, choose the Business plan; the Team plan has no free trial.
4. Use the cloud service or choose the self-hosted option if data needs to stay in your infrastructure.
5. Connect through OpenTelemetry or a listed integration such as GitHub, Jira, or Slack.

Verdict

Choose Sentry Performance if your team needs to investigate application bottlenecks alongside errors and follow requests across services. Look elsewhere if the free plan’s monthly quotas or span-based tracing do not fit your expected usage; paid plans start at $26/mo.