We performed a comparison between Instana Dynamic APM and Sentry based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Instana Dynamic APM offers real-time data generation and quick implementation. Sentry excels in accuracy and seamlessly integrates with different tools. Instana primarily focuses on monitoring and detection, whereas Sentry prioritizes error management and comprehensive context tracking.
Instana Dynamic APM has room for improvement in terms of integration with plugins or an open API, synthetic monitoring, AI-based anomaly detection, API and end-user experience monitoring, and issue detailing and history playback. Sentry could enhance its issue creation process, tracking capabilities, integration with other platforms, pricing, event customization, alert policies and conditions, administrator settings, role registration feature, cloud platform integration, and debugging and end-to-end tracing capabilities.
Service and Support: The customer service of Instana Dynamic APM receives varying feedback, with some customers expressing concerns about support. Sentry's customer service is not frequently mentioned, however, customers appreciate their helpful community support forums and documentation.
Ease of Deployment: Users find Sentry's initial setup to be uncomplicated and flexible, offering both standard and customized options. Conversely, the setup process for Instana Dynamic APM is praised for its speed, simplicity, and efficiency, featuring automated dashboards that are instantly accessible upon installation.
Pricing: Sentry provides a free plan for initial projects, and users appreciate the reasonable pricing, especially given the features in the open-source version. In contrast, Instana Dynamic APM's pricing is generally competitive, although some users find it slightly higher compared to other vendors.
ROI: Instana Dynamic APM and Sentry have both demonstrated positive financial gains and offer value to users. That said, they differ in terms of outcomes and benefits provided.
Comparison Results: Instana Dynamic APM is the preferred choice over Sentry. Instana is praised for its quick and simple setup process, real-time data generation, user-friendly interface, and comprehensive monitoring abilities. Users recommend improvements such as better integration, additional synthetic monitoring and anomaly detection features, and enhancements to API and end-user experience monitoring.
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The product performs well."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Sentry is more accurate than some other tools such as Datadog because it has more integration with Slack, GitLab, Jira, or other ticketing tools."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"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."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"To deal with its shortcomings, Sentry needs to continuously improve in areas like the user interface and documentation, apart from its other features."
"Its debugging feature needs to be faster."
"It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"We cannot restrict particular columns on particular data. It would be helpful if that feature was improved."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Sentry is ranked 8th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while Sentry is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sentry writes "An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic and Elastic Observability, whereas Sentry is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. Sentry report.
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