Owlpane / Solutions / vs. Sentry
Moving from another tool · built on OpenTelemetryComing from Sentry? Keep it for the front end, add the rest of the stack.
Send backend traces and logs to Owlpane next to Sentry. Errors are grouped by the release that introduced them, beside database calls, jobs, Kubernetes state and uptime checks.
Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Sentry for what it does best, if you like. Send your backend traces and logs to Owlpane next to it.
Gain
Errors grouped by the release that introduced them, with a sample trace, beside your database calls, jobs, Kubernetes state and uptime checks.
Give up
Depth on the front end. Session replay and mobile crash reporting are thinner here, and in beta.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
Errors tied to releases
Unhandled and handled errors grouped, each with a sample trace.
APM & tracing →
Jobs and queues
Background work as its own runs, not just the requests that triggered it.
APM & tracing →
How it works
Three steps
Add OpenTelemetry
Instrument the backend with @owlpane/node or any OpenTelemetry SDK.
Run both
Keep the Sentry SDK in the browser while you compare.
Decide
Keep either, or both — nothing forces a choice.
Questions
Do I have to remove the Sentry SDK?
Where Owlpane is narrower
- Session replay and mobile crash reporting are thinner than Sentry, and in beta.
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026 and our own product today, and may change. Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dash0, Better Stack, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS, Sentry, Dynatrace, Kubeshark, Checkly, PagerDuty, SigNoz, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; Owlpane is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Send a copy of your telemetry. Change nothing else.
Standard OpenTelemetry in, so you can try Owlpane beside what you run today.
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