The biggest issue I have with these solutions is indeed local debugging.

I use Sentry with most of my clients, and for effective debugging I need to spin my own Sentry in a Docker container which ends up being quite heavy on my machine especially when combined with Grafana and Prometheus.

I'm really unhappy with virtually all monitoring/telemetry/tracking solutions.

It really feels they are all designed to vendor lock you in their expensive cloud solutions and I really don't feel I'm getting my $s back at all. Worst of all those cloud vendors would rather add new features non-stop rather than honing what they currently have.

Their sales are everywhere, I've seen two different clients getting Datadog sales people join private Slacks to evangelize their products.

Both times I escalated to the CTO, both times I ended up suspecting someone in management had something to gain from pushing teams to adopt those solutions.

I actually wrote about that scenario!

Killing flies with hammers and all, but since I really like my hammer I actually do all my local development with my full-blown error tracker too:

https://www.bugsink.com/blog/local-development/

Sentry's sales team is incredibly aggressive. I've seen multiple colleagues hijacked for sales presentations over a few months. It would not surprise me at all if they just asked random employees to be added to the company slack, and even less if those people then just did it.

I can only commend the hustle on their part, but it does feel a little like a high pressure time share situation.