Convex vs Sentry

Convex

Sentry

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.

Sentry · 16 features

• Alerts — Metric + issue-based alerts routed to Slack/PagerDuty/email/etc.
• Cron Monitoring — Check-in pings for scheduled jobs. Alert on missed/failed runs.
• Distributed Tracing — Performance monitoring spans across services. Connect frontend → backend → DB.
• Error Tracking — Capture exceptions with stack traces, breadcrumbs, tags, release info, user cont…
• Insights — Pre-built dashboards per domain: Frontend, Backend, Mobile, AI, Database, LLM, e…
• LLM Monitoring — Track OpenAI/Anthropic/etc calls, token usage, cost, errors.
• Logs — Centralized structured logging correlated with errors + traces.
• Profiling — CPU profiling for Python, Node.js, Go, PHP, Ruby, Android, iOS.
• Release Health — Adoption + crash-free rate per release version.
• Releases — Track deploys, commit hooks, source map upload, bisect.
• Seer (AI Debug) — Root cause analysis + fix suggestions for issues via AI.
• Self-Hosting — Docker-based self-host. Feature parity.
• Session Replay — Record DOM + network to replay user sessions that hit errors.
• Source Maps — Auto-symbolicate minified code. Upload via CLI or Webpack/Vite plugin.
• Uptime Monitoring — Synthetic checks for HTTP endpoints.
• User Feedback — In-app feedback widget tied to sessions.