Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2011CEO / Founder
David CramerEmployees
501-1000Funding
Series E — $217MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.3/10Website
sentry.ioProfile updated
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.
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Who Sentry competes with, and how they differ.
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 TopReviewedFocused 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 TopReviewedOpen-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 TopReviewedBroader 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 TopReviewedDedicated 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.
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 TopReviewedKey milestones in Sentry's history, with sources.
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.ioAcquires 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.ioAcquires 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.ioAcquires 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.ioSeries 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.ioAcquires Specto
Sentry acquired analytics firm Specto to add continuous profiling to its mobile application monitoring product.
sentry.ioSeries 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.ioSeries 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.comSeries 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.comSeries 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.comSeed 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.
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