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."The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The product performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"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 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 volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"The price could be lowered."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 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, Grafana and Dynatrace. See our Sentry vs. Splunk APM report.
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