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."Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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 product performs well."
"It has a big user base, so the community is useful."
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"We primarily use it to correlate logs throughout the enterprise for both searching and use in investigations."
"The most valuable feature is the custom dashboard feature."
"Splunk has significantly helped with aggregation and correlation of critical logs. Not having to grep on each individual server has made everyone more efficient."
"We did not encounter any issues with scalability. It is almost seamless to add new index (storage) or search (used to analyze the data) nodes to the cluster."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is website activity monitoring."
"It is user-friendly. It is more effective than other solutions. The support and help for troubleshooting and the documentation from Splunk make it very effective."
"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."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The price could be lowered."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"A lot of people are averse to using new tools so if they make it even more user-friendly than it already is, I think that could go a long way."
"Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it."
"Splunk is query-based, which is not the case with most cybersecurity tools. It is based on search queries and can be difficult to use. It would be good if they can make it easier to understand how to create search queries. They can improve the knowledge base for better understanding. To create your dashboard, you need to have a search query. We have multiple firewalls in our company, and we need a dashboard for them. It would be helpful if a default firewall dashboard is included in Splunk to make monitoring easier. If a dashboard is available for a security device, the operation part will be more efficient. We won't have to follow a manual process for this."
"Professional support is great, but too expensive."
"The integration could be a bit better. They charge for certain integrations."
"Our two main complaints are about the difficulty of the initial setup and the licensing model."
"Splunk can improve its third-party device application plugins."
"In the next releases, I would like to see more pricing flexibility."
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 228 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, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Sentry vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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