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 stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"The product performs well."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 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, Dynatrace and Observe. See our Sentry vs. Splunk APM report.
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