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Sentry vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Sentry
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Debugging (1st)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th), Container Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Sentry is 6.4%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Abdullah Baig - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing
Sentry was easy to learn compared to New Relic and Azure Monitor. I saw some valuable input. It took us the least amount of time to see how Sentry is valuable. It took just a few minutes. Session Replay provides a replay of the recorded errors. It is a good feature. Azure Monitor does not have this feature. The error reporting is straightforward. We can see everything that we need to see. The dashboard seems pretty fine. The product performs well. We can see the user's IP addresses.
Lakshmi Padaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection
Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The vibrant dashboards are valuable."
"Once configured correctly, the analysis reporting the Splunk APM provides is better than that of the other APM tools."
"Splunk's GUI and dashboard capacity are the most valuable features of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring."
 

Cons

"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"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."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"They do not have all the features that I expect right now."
"It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
"The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We can adjust the price a little bit based on our needs."
"We are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service."
"Currently, we are in the production phase of our project and we are on free plans to use Sentry. Once we go live we will have to be on a subscription-based plan."
"I am currently using a self-hosted open version."
"The solution's pricing is costly."
"It is expensive."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."
"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."
"The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."
"The pricing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sentry?
The product costs $26 a month if we choose a yearly subscription. Code coverage can be added for an additional $29 per month. The Team plan is the cheapest package available. We can make our own bu...
What needs improvement with Sentry?
It would be nice if the product provided a map showing the users’ geographic location.
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts. The custom detector could be m...
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
The main purpose of using Splunk APM is to optimize our application. We use Splunk APM primarily to understand how the application works, how it uses resources, and its response time in connection ...
 

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
 

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Sample Customers

Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber
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