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 is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The product performs well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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 stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Splunk Enterprise Security comes with 300 pre-deployed use cases that can be easily customized to meet the specific needs of our organization, without the need to purchase additional tools."
"The product has a good security posture."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it helps with our use cases to detect anomalies in our data and it is important to my company since we have a lot of data on different logs on the systems."
"The integration is seamless with many devices and operating systems."
"We can ingest and correlate data from virtually any type of system."
"The data representation options in the dashboards are excellent."
"You can integrate Splunk with third-party security automation solutions and set rules for automatic response."
"Splunk has machine learning which is a valuable feature."
"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."
"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."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"Our two main complaints are about the difficulty of the initial setup and the licensing model."
"Splunk could improve its default machine-learning models. Also, Splunk Enterprise's native threat intelligence isn't that good. I prefer a custom threat intelligence model."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
"Free-floating panels in the dashboards are like a glass table."
"DMC should be a little more intuitive with better dashboarding. Seeing the cause of data flow can be tough to track down."
"We were inundated with the amount of alerts and alarms that we could get out of it. It is also a resource hog and we didn't have the resources to support it on-prem so we're taking it offline now."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"Splunk could have more built-in use case presets that customers can build on and customize."
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 240 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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