Flowhawk vs Sentry
Sentry is the error tracker most teams already know. Flowhawk does error tracking too, and it accepts Sentry's SDKs, but it starts from a different question. Which of your business flows is broken right now, and why?
The short version
- Choose Sentry if you want the most mature error tracker, with SDKs for almost every platform published and a large community.
- Choose Flowhawk if you want errors, traces, logs, metrics, sessions and incidents in one place, grouped by flows like checkout and sign-up, with an agent that investigates incidents for you.
Side by side
| Flowhawk | Sentry | |
|---|---|---|
| Organised by | Business flows (checkout, sign-up) and their steps | Projects and issues |
| Errors | Issues with stack traces, source maps, releases and owners | Its core product, very mature |
| Traces, logs, metrics | All three, on OpenTelemetry, linked to each other and to the flow | Traces and logs, linked to errors |
| Incidents and on-call | Incidents open by themselves, with on-call by push, email, text and phone, and status pages | Alerts; on-call and status pages come from other tools |
| AI | An agent that investigates incidents and answers questions, priced per use | Seer, an add-on at extra cost |
| Entry price | Pay as you go, about $30 a month for a light 10-person team and $242 for a busy 40-person one | $29 a month (Team) with 50k errors, 5M spans and 5 GB of logs |
| Seats | No fee | No fee |
| Free start | $10 free for 14 days | Free plan for one user |
Where Sentry is stronger
- More platforms, and SDKs that have been in production for years. Flowhawk's own SDKs aren't on the public package registries yet. Until they are, you send data with OpenTelemetry or with Sentry's SDKs.
- A free plan with no time limit for one person.
- A large community, and answers to most questions already online.
Where Flowhawk is different
- A failing payment step shows up as checkout failing, next to the deploy that changed it, before you open any issue.
- Traces, logs, metrics, sessions, database queries and AI calls link to each other by flow, so you don't copy a trace id from one tool to another.
- The agent handles the first hour of an incident. It reads the evidence and writes the incident page, then proposes a fix such as a rollback, which waits for your approval.
- Flows, alerts and dashboards are YAML files, so you can review every change and undo it.
Moving from Sentry
Point your existing Sentry SDK at Flowhawk by swapping the DSN for one made from a Flowhawk key. Errors, releases, user feedback and profiles arrive without code changes. See Sending data.