We performed a comparison between Sentry and Splunk APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The product performs well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"The price could be lowered."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Sentry is rated 8.6, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sentry writes "An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability and New Relic, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo, Observe and Dynatrace. See our Sentry vs. Splunk APM report.
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