Sentry

Sentry
Sentry
  • Headquarters

    San Francisco, CA
  • Founded

    2011
  • CEO / Founder

    David Cramer
  • Employees

    501-1000
  • Funding

    Series E — $217M
  • Products

    1 product listed
  • Avg. AI Score

    8.3/10
  • Website

    sentry.io

Profile updated

Products
1
Avg AI Score
8.3/10
Founded
2011
Funding
$217M
About Sentry

Sentry is an application monitoring and error tracking platform founded in 2011 in San Francisco by David Cramer and Chris Jennings. The open-source-based platform provides error tracking, performance monitoring, session replay, and profiling for web and mobile applications.

Sentry serves more than 100,000 organizations, including Disney, Microsoft, and Peloton. The company is a leader in developer-first observability, competing with Datadog and New Relic.

The company has raised approximately $217 million, including a $90 million round in 2022 at a $3 billion valuation, led by BOND. David Cramer serves as CEO.

Specialties
Error TrackingApplication MonitoringPerformance MonitoringSession ReplayDeveloper Observability
Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Valuation
$3B
sentry.io
ARRest.
$128M
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Total Raised
$217M
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Valuation over time
$40M(Jun 23, 2016, est.)$100M(May 24, 2018, est.)$1B(Feb 18, 2021)$3B(May 4, 2022)
ARR over time
$99M(2022, est.)$128M(December 2023, est.)
Total Raised over time
$127M(Feb 18, 2021)$217M(May 4, 2022)
Products by Sentry

All products by Sentry reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

How Our Review Panel Scores Sentry

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Sentry's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.7 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

The Decision Maker
8.7
The Domain Strategist
8.4
The Skeptic
8.4
The Domain Practitioner
8.3
The Power User
8.1
The Finance Lead
8.0

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Sentry competes with, and how they differ.

New Relic, Inc. logo
New Relic, Inc.8.1/10

Full-stack observability platform covering infrastructure, APM, and logs, priced on data ingest volume rather than Sentry's error/event-based pricing, competing more for broad enterprise monitoring budgets than pure error tracking.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Honeycomb.io logo
Honeycomb.io8.5/10

Focused on high-cardinality distributed tracing and observability built on OpenTelemetry, targeting engineering teams debugging complex production systems rather than Sentry's front-end error and crash reporting use case.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Grafana Labs logo
Grafana Labs8.5/10

Open-source-based metrics, logs, and traces visualization stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo) that teams self-host or run via Grafana Cloud, competing on infrastructure observability rather than application-level error tracking and session replay.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Datadog logo
Datadog7.0/10

Broader observability and security platform spanning infrastructure monitoring, APM, logs, and error tracking, priced per host/service with usage-based add-ons, competing directly with Sentry's error tracking module as one piece of a much larger suite.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
R
Rollbar

Dedicated error monitoring tool with a narrower feature set than Sentry (no built-in performance monitoring or session replay), positioned as a lighter-weight, lower-cost alternative for teams that only need crash/error alerting.

Harness Inc. logo
Harness Inc.8.0/10

CI/CD and software delivery platform with feature flagging and deployment management, overlapping with Sentry mainly through release health and error-based rollback features rather than core error monitoring.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Company Timeline

Key milestones in Sentry's history, with sources.

  1. Launch

    Seer AI Debugger reaches General Availability

    Sentry's AI debugging agent Seer became generally available to all paid customers, having helped fix over 38,000 issues in beta with a reported 94.5% root-cause accuracy.

    sentry.io
  2. Acquisition

    Acquires Emerge Tools

    Sentry acquired Emerge Tools, a mobile app development and build-size analysis platform, to strengthen its mobile app monitoring solution; deal terms were not disclosed.

    sentry.io
  3. Acquisition

    Acquires developer podcast Syntax

    Sentry acquired the Syntax web development podcast hosted by Scott Tolinski and Wes Bos, one of Sentry's earliest sponsorship partners; deal terms were not disclosed.

    blog.sentry.io
  4. Acquisition

    Acquires Codecov

    Sentry acquired Codecov, a code coverage reporting tool, to give developers visibility into code quality earlier in the development cycle; deal terms were not disclosed.

    sentry.io
  5. Funding

    Series E -- $90M co-led by Bond and Accel at $3B+ valuation

    Sentry raised $90 million in a Series E round co-led by Bond and Accel with participation from NEA and new investor K5 Global, bringing total funding to $217 million and valuing the company at more than $3 billion.

    sentry.io
  6. Acquisition

    Acquires Specto

    Sentry acquired analytics firm Specto to add continuous profiling to its mobile application monitoring product.

    sentry.io
  7. Funding

    Series D -- $60M led by Accel at $1B valuation

    Sentry raised $60 million in a Series D round led by Accel with participation from NEA and new investor Bond, bringing total funding to $127 million and a post-funding valuation of $1 billion.

    sentry.io
  8. Funding

    Series C -- $40M led by Accel

    Sentry raised a $40 million Series C led by returning investor Accel with participation from NEA, bringing total funding to about $66.5 million.

    techcrunch.com
  9. Funding

    Series B -- $16M from NEA and Accel at ~$100M valuation

    Sentry raised a $16 million Series B led by returning investors NEA and Accel; CEO David Cramer told TechCrunch the round valued the company at approximately $100 million post-money.

    techcrunch.com
  10. Funding

    Series A -- $9M led by NEA with Accel

    Sentry raised a $9 million Series A led by NEA with participation from Accel, valuing the company at more than $40 million post-money per co-founder David Cramer.

    techcrunch.com
  11. Funding

    Seed round -- $1.5M led by Accel

    Sentry raised a $1.5 million seed round led by Accel, the firm's first investment in the company; the founders used it to grow the team from three to fourteen people.

    accel.com

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