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.
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"It is a stable solution."
"The detailing of our application behavior and user experience is most valuable. In case there is an issue, we typically use Instana to figure it out. We can drill down to the application and figure out what's going on and where the issue is."
"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."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"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 most valuable feature is the ability to create and assign rules and give access to particular users."
"It's a great visibility tool for the developer team."
"Its initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The most valuable feature we have found with Sentry is the security that it provides."
"The product performs well."
"The stability is very good for Sentry and in general works well."
"Sentry breaks everything down in real time."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"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."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"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."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"It should be easier to integrate Sentry with other tools, and the end-to-end tracing capabilities could be improved."
"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."
"Lacks user metric tracking and the ability to create more dashboards."
"I would like to see a role registration feature added."
"I would like to have alert policies and alert conditions enhanced in the next release."
"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 23rd 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, Elastic Observability and Grafana, 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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