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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
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
12
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 (9th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th), Container Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Sentry is 7.0%, up from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.0%, 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

"The product performs well."
"Sentry is a pretty stable product... Sentry's documentation is pretty straightforward and neat."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I would rate the stability of Sentry as eight out of ten."
"Great for capturing application performance metrics and error logs."
"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."
"The solution monitors attacks or unauthorized access to the information we want to protect."
"Once configured correctly, the analysis reporting the Splunk APM provides is better than that of the other APM tools."
"It supports proactive management, enhances security, and improves operational efficiency."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"I have primarily used it to go back into the past and understand why something happened. It provides enough information to do research and figure things out."
"The product's deployment phase is good and very easy because it is done with OpenTelemetry for most of the parts."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
 

Cons

"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"The settings for an administrator are complex."
"The price could be lowered."
"The log centralization and analysis could be improved in Sentry."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"I have not worked with Sentry long enough to provide advice for improvements. I need more experience and time."
"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."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"There is not a lot of support for the tool's on-premises version, especially since everything is on the cloud."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service."
"I am currently using a self-hosted open version."
"We can adjust the price a little bit based on our needs."
"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."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."
"This is an expensive solution."
"It is expensive."
"The price of Splunk APM is less than some of its competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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?
I have not worked with Sentry long enough to provide advice for improvements. I need more experience and time.
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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Sample Customers

Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber
Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara
Find out what your peers are saying about Sentry vs. Splunk Observability Cloud and other solutions. Updated: April 2025.
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