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."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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