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 most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"The feature that we use the most is the correlation search engine within ES."
"The consolidated overview of all the events that come in through our environment and an easy-to-access interface for all our end users are valuable."
"The technical support has been very good. They are very responsive and have been helpful."
"This solution helps us increase our productivity."
"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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The metrics and trends that Splunk Enterprise Security generates using all the data points we send allow customers to understand better what their users are doing."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"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."
"The price could be lowered."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"One issue is that we are getting a lot of false positives. We are trying to reduce them by customizing the default rules, changing thresholds, and using white-listing and black-listing. It's getting better and better as a result. But they need to build components that would reduce the false positives."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
"There are a lot of competitive products that are doing better than what Splunk is doing on the analytics side."
"The analytics of Splunk could be improved."
"Features related to content management must be improved."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 235 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 AWS X-Ray, 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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