We performed a comparison between Instana Dynamic APM and Sentry based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Instana Dynamic APM offers real-time data generation and quick implementation. Sentry excels in accuracy and seamlessly integrates with different tools. Instana primarily focuses on monitoring and detection, whereas Sentry prioritizes error management and comprehensive context tracking.
Instana Dynamic APM has room for improvement in terms of integration with plugins or an open API, synthetic monitoring, AI-based anomaly detection, API and end-user experience monitoring, and issue detailing and history playback. Sentry could enhance its issue creation process, tracking capabilities, integration with other platforms, pricing, event customization, alert policies and conditions, administrator settings, role registration feature, cloud platform integration, and debugging and end-to-end tracing capabilities.
Service and Support: The customer service of Instana Dynamic APM receives varying feedback, with some customers expressing concerns about support. Sentry's customer service is not frequently mentioned, however, customers appreciate their helpful community support forums and documentation.
Ease of Deployment: Users find Sentry's initial setup to be uncomplicated and flexible, offering both standard and customized options. Conversely, the setup process for Instana Dynamic APM is praised for its speed, simplicity, and efficiency, featuring automated dashboards that are instantly accessible upon installation.
Pricing: Sentry provides a free plan for initial projects, and users appreciate the reasonable pricing, especially given the features in the open-source version. In contrast, Instana Dynamic APM's pricing is generally competitive, although some users find it slightly higher compared to other vendors.
ROI: Instana Dynamic APM and Sentry have both demonstrated positive financial gains and offer value to users. That said, they differ in terms of outcomes and benefits provided.
Comparison Results: Instana Dynamic APM is the preferred choice over Sentry. Instana is praised for its quick and simple setup process, real-time data generation, user-friendly interface, and comprehensive monitoring abilities. Users recommend improvements such as better integration, additional synthetic monitoring and anomaly detection features, and enhancements to API and end-user experience monitoring.
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The product performs well."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sentry writes "An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability and Grafana, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. Sentry report.
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