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Ivy vs Sentry for AWS Lambda
Sentry is error and performance monitoring for your whole stack, frontend and backend, with a Lambda integration. Ivy is narrower: it traces every AWS Lambda invocation with its payloads and AWS calls, and catches failures outside the handler. Many teams would use both, Sentry for application errors and Ivy for what happened inside each Lambda invocation.
Feature comparison
As of November 2026, from Sentry's public pricing and documentation.
| Feature | Ivy | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | AWS Lambda traces, errors and alerts | Errors, tracing, session replay, profiling, logs and more, across many platforms |
| Lambda setup | Opt-in auto-trace attaches a layer; no code changes | Sentry's AWS Lambda integration (SDK or Lambda layer), configured per function |
| Unit of data | One trace per invocation, every invocation | Error events and sampled spans |
| Payloads | Events, responses and AWS SDK and HTTP bodies by default | Request context on errors; configurable |
| AWS-aware spans | DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Lambda calls with service details | Depends on SDK instrumentation |
| Failures outside the handler | Init errors, out of memory, crashes, timeouts with log tails; throttles | Timeout warnings in the SDK; see Sentry's docs |
| Error workflow | Error groups, Slack alerts, weekly digest | Issues with assignment, releases, ownership rules, many alert integrations |
| Agents | MCP server, MCP Apps views, HTTP API | See Sentry's docs |
| Self-hosting | Yes, MIT licensed | Self-hosted Sentry is available |
Where Sentry is stronger: errors across your whole product, not just Lambda; a mature issue workflow with releases, assignment and many integrations; frontend monitoring and session replay.
Where Ivy is stronger: everything an invocation did, with payloads, without sampling; failures that never reach your code; AWS calls shown as AWS calls; setup without touching each function; and a price per invocation.
Pricing
| Pricing | Ivy | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 100,000 traces a month | Developer: 5,000 errors and 5M spans a month |
| Paid | €5 per million traces | Team from $26 a month (annual) or $29 (monthly); Business from $80 (annual) or $89 (monthly); usage beyond the plan billed extra |
Using both
Ivy's layer and Sentry's SDK can run in the same function. Sentry reports exceptions to its issue workflow; Ivy records the full invocation. If you only want one tool for Lambda errors, Ivy's error groups and Slack alerts cover the basics.
Sources
Checked in November 2026:
Sentry is a trademark of Functional Software, Inc. Ivy is not affiliated with Sentry.