Blog: PostHog vs Sentry

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In-depth: PostHog vs Sentry

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PostHog vs Sentry

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• How is PostHog different?

  • PostHog focuses on how to make your product better. Sentry focuses on how to make your product “not worse.” Help make your product better vs discover issues making your product worse. Reactive vs proactive.
  • PostHog focuses on user behavior, Sentry focuses on application behavior. User-facing vs internal-facing. Diagnosing and fixing bugs. Look at the core data: event vs error.
  • PostHog has product analytics, feature flags, A/B testing. Sentry has error and performance monitoring as well as issue management.
  • Free tier. PostHog has a more generous free tier highlighted by an 100 times more session replays and 200 times more events (aka errors). Teams is free too. Everything is available for PostHog for free. A lot is either on their higher team or business plans.
  • At PostHog, we have been stepping up our error monitoring game lately.
  • They are both “telemetry” tool

• Want to combine PostHog and Sentry?

• Platform

  • Error monitoring
  • Performance monitoring
    • Tracing
    • Profiling
  • Profiling
  • Session replay
  • User feedback
  • Product analytics
  • Feature flags
  • A/B testing
  • SQL querying
  • Incident management, issue tracking

• Error monitoring

  • Stack trace
  • Free tier
  • Crashlytics
  • Logs (Sentry might not have this)

• Performance

  • Tracing (what is slow)
  • Profiling (why it is slow)
  • Flame graphs
  • Query, function, code line references + connect

• Product analytics

  • Trends
  • Funnels
  • Custom events
  • Autocapture (events)
  • Group analytics
  • Retention
  • SQL

• Session replay

  • Web app
  • Mobile
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Console log
  • Performance
  • Privacy
  • Control when to record (sampling)
  • Free tier
  • Heatmaps
  • Canvas

• Feedback

  • Open text
  • Product rating
  • NPS
  • Customizawtion
  • API
  • Templates

• Integrations

  • This is always sort of a boring section
  • Data warehouse
  • Warehouse import
  • Stripe, Zendesk, etc
  • Nicely, PostHog and Sentry have an integration with each other

• Security and compliance

  • Privacy options

  • History, audit logs

  • GDPR

  • HIPAA

  • SOC 2

  • 2FA

  • SAML/SSO

    

• Other

  • Free tier
  • Free team plan
  • Open source
  • Release tracking
  • SDKs
  • EU hosting
  • API
  • Alerting
  • Dashboards

• Frequently asked questions

  • Who uses PostHog?
  • How much does PostHog cost?
  • How much does Sentry cost?
  • Do Sentry or PostHog offer free trials?
  • How long does it take to implement PostHog?