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We performed a comparison between Sentry and Splunk Enterprise Security 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Sentry vs. Splunk Enterprise Security Report (Updated: May 2023).
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Pros
"The solution is user-friendly.""Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward.""Sentry breaks everything down in real time.""The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well.""It's a great visibility tool for the developer team.""Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs.""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."

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"The most useful feature for me is the ability to create different kinds of alerts and set a different kind of denominator that will capture the real event. That is helpful for a power user like me.""We have a one stop dashboard for health of some of our services where you can click in and it takes you to other dashboards that have custom near real-time metrics that show the application's health.""It has helped us look at modern technology, as well as penetrate our legacy systems, to see where the bottlenecks are.""The ability to analyze huge amounts of sales data and accurate prediction of sales forecasting is the most valuable feature.""The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive.""From my experience, the visual aid that it provides is most valuable. There are charts and other means to provide information.""The search function for spam is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results.""Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."

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Cons
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved.""The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry.""It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location.""The settings for an administrator are complex.""Its debugging feature needs to be faster.""Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards.""To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features.""I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."

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"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product.""The upgrading process could be smoother."". Having a trial version or more training on Splunk would be helpful.""It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated.""Splunk Enterprise Security can be improved by including backup network detection and response and safe management to the paid platform.""We'd like Splunk to reduce false positives.""The product was designed for security and IT with business intelligence needs, such as PDF exporting, but this has not been the highest priority. While the functionality is there, it could be developed more.""I would like to see more SIEM functionality and a better ticket tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Currently, we are in the production phase of our project and we are on free plans to use Sentry. Once we go live we will have to be on a subscription-based plan."
  • "I am currently using a self-hosted open version."
  • "We are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service."
  • "We can adjust the price a little bit based on our needs."
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  • "Pricing and licensing is quite expensive. But for the value the product provides, it seems at par in the market."
  • "Although Splunk is an expensive product, it is designed to be utilized across your organization in order to maximize your ROI and lower your TCO."
  • "It is not cheap."
  • "Splunk Enterprise becomes extremely expensive after the 20GB/month license."
  • "You will eat up whatever you purchase quickly. The level of insights that Splunk empowers is addictive."
  • "Splunk licensing model might seem expensive but with all the gain in functionalities you will have compared to traditional SIEM solutions I think it’s worth the price."
  • "Pricing is pretty fair."
  • "While licensing can be a concern, there are ways to reduce the licensing costs including filtering some events."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product costs $26 a month if we choose a yearly subscription. Code coverage can be added for an additional $29 per month. The Team plan is the cheapest package available. We can make our own… more »
    Top Answer:It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location.
    Top Answer:For tools I’d recommend:  -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also,… more »
    Top Answer:It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log… more »
    Top Answer:Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we… more »
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    Overview

    Sentry’s real-time error tracking gives you insight into production deployments and information to reproduce and fix crashes.

    Splunk Enterprise Security is a SIEM, log management, and IT operations analytics tool. The solution provides users with the ability to secure their information and manage their data in the cloud, data centers, or other applications. Splunk Enterprise Security also offers visibility from different areas, levels, and devices, rather than from a single system, thus, providing its users with flexibility. Splunk Enterprise Security can monitor data and analyze, detect, and prevent intrusions. This benefits users as it provides alerts to possible intrusions, helps users to be proactive, and reduces risk factors. 

    Full visibility across your environment

    Break down data silos and gain actionable intelligence by ingesting data from multicloud and on-premises deployments. Get full visibility to quickly detect malicious threats in your environment.

    Fast threat detection

    Defend against threats with advanced security analytics, machine learning and threat intelligence that focus detection and provide high-fidelity alerts to shorten triage times and raise true positive rates.

    Efficient investigations

    Gather all the context you need and initiate flexible investigations with security analytics at your fingertips. The built-in open and extensible data platform boosts productivity and drives down fatigue.

    Open and scalable

    Built on an open and scalable data platform, you can stay agile in the face of evolving threats and business needs. Splunk meets you where you are on your cloud journey, and integrates across your data, tools and content.

    Sample Customers
    Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber
    Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Government10%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business70%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise51%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Sentry vs. Splunk Enterprise Security
    May 2023
    Find out what your peers are saying about Sentry vs. Splunk Enterprise Security and other solutions. Updated: May 2023.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 221 reviews. Sentry is rated 8.6, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. 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 Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and Datadog, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Sentry vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.

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