When comparing Sentry vs Cloudlytics, the Slant community recommends Sentry for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Sentry is ranked 2nd while Cloudlytics is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Sentry is:
It's what Sentry calls [Rollups](https://docs.sentry.io/learn/rollups/]. All individual issues rolled-up can still be drilled down. Also two issues can be **merged** manually.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy
It's what Sentry calls [Rollups](https://docs.sentry.io/learn/rollups/]. All individual issues rolled-up can still be drilled down. Also two issues can be merged manually.
Pro Email/Slack/GitHub/Hipchat integration
Newly discovered issues (i.e. one that isn't rolled-up under and existing one) can generate an instant notification via many means.
Pro Has an official Docker image
Sentry has an official Docker image which means it's likely going to be well reviewed and maintained for a while and it makes it easy to set up.
Pro Completely open source, with a hosted version available
Sentry is a completely open source tool. It's free to use if you want to run it on your own. If you want to avoid the overhead of running and maintaining another server, it also has a hosted version available at www.getsentry.com
Pro Source maps support
Has support for source maps.
Pro Can create projects and teams
A single Sentry server can be used for various teams/products.
Pro Traffic analysis is provided using CloudFront logs
CloudFront analytics allows tracking what content is accessed and organize requests based on origin, amount, data transfered, OS/device/browser used, time, etc.
Pro Allows analyzing CloudTrail's API calls
Cloudlytics can be used to analyze CloutTrail's API calls to understand the geographical origin of requests and identifying unauthorized access attempts.
Pro Helps manage expenditure
Provides tools for analyzing bills.
Can schedule turning EC2 instances on and off to optimize resource cost.
Allows setting expenditure threshold values that will trigger an alert if a bill of a service has consumed 80%, 100% or more of set threshold.
Pro Provides AWS ELB insights
Cloudlytics provides insight into requests made to load balancer, including average response time, request path, server responses and client IP addresses.
Pro Allows scheduling when certain EC2 instances should be turned on or off
Usage of development and test environments can be optimized via scheduler. EC2 instances can be turned off when not needed.
Pro A free trial is available
The free trial lasts a month and allows uploading 200 MB of logs.
Pro Comprehensive log analytics solution for AWS Cloud
Cloudlytics can gather logs from Amazon's S3, CloudFront, CloudTrail and ELB services and provide insight into access patterns, API calls, requests made to load balancer as well as identify unauthorized access attempts, spam attacks, and help manage expenditure.
Pro AWS cloud audit allows identifying unauthorized access attempts
Cloud audit can be turned on via CloudTrail. It allows identifying unauthorized access attempts, IP addresses and request statuses.
Pro Allows identifying spam requests
Spam Reports can be used to identify possible spam requests and the IP address making them.
Pro Custom reports
Custom reports can be used to get insights for specific needs. For example, it's possible to add filters for parameters like edge locations, status, URL query etc. on various available fields like total requests, edge result type.
Cons
Con Not really a logging solution
Sentry collects exceptions, it's not a solution for log aggregation.
Con Can't filter by browser versions
Sentry only filters by browser names and not by browser versions (for example: Firefox, instead of Firefox 27, Firefox 28 etc...)
Con No free cloud hosting
Unfortunately there is no free plan for cloud hosted solution. Only self-hosted solutions are free to use.
Con No Free Plan
Only 200 MBs are free for just the 1st month.
Con AWS services only
Highly focussed on AWS Cloud & if you are looking for analytics about your Cloud Infrastructure then this is your go to SaaS tool