Ansight vs Sentry
Ansight combines app control, deep runtime inspection, session replay, and verification in one connected workflow, so evidence from one activity carries into the next. Here is where Sentry fits and when to choose Ansight.
What Sentry offers
Production errors, performance telemetry, and historical incident context.
Why choose Ansight
Choose Ansight to investigate and verify behaviour in development apps through live control, exposed internal state, and reusable captured evidence.
Capabilities vary by SDK, platform, and enabled tools. Descriptions of Sentry reflect its public documentation at the time of writing.
Ansight vs production monitoring
Investigate and verify in development builds.
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Keep developer tools in trusted builds.
Use Ansight in development and internal QA builds, with enrollment and remote tools guarded by your app. Keep those tools out of production builds and review captured data before sharing it.
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Fixing, not alerting.
Monitoring tells you a user hit a crash. Ansight lets an agent reproduce and fix it in the development app with deep runtime evidence: screenshots, visual trees, logs, network, database state and framework internals around the failure.
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Complementary.
Keep production monitoring where it belongs. Use Ansight to fix what it reports and verify the fix before the next release.
The difference
A run in Ansight becomes an asset for the next stage.
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Debug test
Use the captured failure, actions, and state to author a regression check.
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Test debug
Investigate a failed run using its retained runtime evidence.
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UI internal state
Cross-reference visible behaviour with exposed framework and database state.
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Performance verification
Use observed measurements to inform repeatable checks.
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Investigation handoff
Preserve the session and annotations for another engineer or agent.
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Fix evidence
Repeat the relevant workflow and inspect whether the expected results occurred.
What Ansight brings together
The capabilities behind the workflow.
| Capability | What Ansight brings together | Why it matters |
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| Deep session replay | Screenshots, visual trees, logs, network events, touches, metrics, saved app data, and annotations. | Preserve the runtime context around a failure for investigation and verification. |
| Live app control | Semantic UI selection, input, navigation, waits, and assertions. | Let agents reproduce behaviour and check the result in the running app. |
| Framework-aware inspection | MAUI bindings and diagnostics, Flutter widget information, React Native component inspection, and native view access. | Explain behaviour using information beyond the visible screen. |
| App-data verification | Read-only SQLite queries and concrete database assertions. | Verify persisted results alongside UI state. |
| App-defined tools | Guarded operations that expose your application's own diagnostics and domain state. | Give agents direct answers about behaviour specific to your app. |
| Guarded state changes | Supported property mutations, framework actions, and custom operations. | Investigate behaviour and prepare verification scenarios with controlled access. |
| Repository tests | Agent-driven scenarios, validation instructions, execution results, and retained audits. | Turn investigation findings into reusable verification. |
| Scripted tasks and triggers | Repository-controlled operations, tool composition, and event-driven automation. | Reuse diagnostic and verification procedures across workflows. |
| Native profiling | Instruments and Perfetto integration. | Investigate performance with platform profiling tools. |
| Performance Trends | Historical measurements, percentiles, and memory-growth analysis. | Identify changes across runs and inform performance checks. |
| Evidence correlation | Action identifiers, timestamps, captured trees, screenshots, and assertion results. | Follow an interaction through its associated runtime evidence. |
| Annotations and handoff | Timeline and UI-target context, portable archives, and historical session review. | Preserve what matters when work moves between people or agents. |
| Configurable sanitisation | Policies for redacting captured content, screenshots, and exported files. | Prepare evidence for handoff with deliberate control over its contents. |
| Physical and virtual devices | SDK-connected runtime inspection on supported hardware, simulators, and emulators. | Investigate behaviour in the environments relevant to your app. |
See the evidence trail on your app.
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