Nevatech Sentinet Reviews

Numerous businesses often need to establish connections with external vendors, resulting in a lack of control over the web services they utilize and the incoming data. In such situations, the conventional approach requires the development of custom code to handle this data. However, with the introduction of Sentinet, the need for custom code becomes obsolete. Sentinet empowers users to swiftly make the required adjustments within its platform, eliminating the necessity for extensive coding. By leveraging Sentinet, businesses can save valuable time, reduce costs, and mitigate potential future complications, providing a hassle-free solution.

The application becomes a bit slow to retrieve the tracking data once the database gets over 1 terabyte in size.

The tool does everything that it is advertised to do and much much more.

+ completely based on .Net

+ highly extendable

+ perfect support from Nevatech

+ easy to use

+ easy to install and to configure

+ very good documented

Nothing found so far, the product is quite perfect

Exposing APIs to the outside world like (PSD2 (openbanking))

+ completely based on .Net

+ highly extendable

+ perfect support from Nevatech

+ easy to use

+ easy to install and to configure

+ very good documented

Nothing found so far, the product is quite perfect

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

What I love with Sentinet is that you get from zero to hero in no time. Installation and set up is very easy, admin console too. The whole GUI experience is very easy to understand.

Day to day work with Sentinet is easy. If you have a WSDL or a swagger you have the API up and running in minutes with all bells and whistles.

The Sentinet environment is robust and hardly (if ever) has any errors. I've worked with Sentinet for approx 6 years and I have never had any problems with the runtime environment. A great product which have helped my client a lot.

The only negative view from me would be that the installation account needs to be part of the sysadmin role on SQL server.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

What I love with Sentinet is that you get from zero to hero in no time. Installation and set up is very easy, admin console too. The whole GUI experience is very easy to understand.

Day to day work with Sentinet is easy. If you have a WSDL or a swagger you have the API up and running in minutes with all bells and whistles.

The Sentinet environment is robust and hardly (if ever) has any errors. I've worked with Sentinet for approx 6 years and I have never had any problems with the runtime environment. A great product which have helped my client a lot.

The only negative view from me would be that the installation account needs to be part of the sysadmin role on SQL server.

API traffic within the organisation and to and from internet

Provides an easy way to manage and secure your API's. You no longer have to build in some sort of security mechanism into the API code itself. Just let Sentinet handle that overhead via some configuration. It has also been extremely useful in creating custom APIs "in front of" existing APIs that would not normally be exposed to the public. It allows for reusing those internal APIs in such a way that we can save time and money reusing them.

Migrating through environments (dev, qa, staging and production) is not as easy as it could be (or maybe there is something I do not know about).

Ask for a trial to ensure the product meets your specific needs.

Core benefits for us have been managing (sometimes multiple versions) and securing our APIs. We have also been able to leverage some customization features within Sentinet to provide NetSuite authentication to avoid having to build that into our APIs. This saves lots of extra code sitting in the APIs that really doesn't need to be there. The API can focus on what it should be doing and not the overhead stuff that is not really needed within an API. Lastly, the interface is easy to use and the typical dev ops person can pick it up very quickly. This has helped allow devops to manage deployments instead of getting the developers always involved in the process. Overall this saves the company money and also spreads the knowledge so a couple of people are never the bottleneck.

The UI is incredibly intuitive and powerful, an excellent combination when managing APIs for a large complex organization. We have also been impressed by the depth and breadth of the technical support provided by Nevatech. The tool allows an incredible level of flexibility due to the ability to develop custom components that can be easily deployed and executed within the tool.

Need more robust version controls and a way to include pipeline component configuration changes in version control. Need better full-text search functionality.

Sentinet provides one central location for API management and rapid service development and testing. Sentinet has also allowed us to leverage OAuth authentication from vendors with minor binding configurations. This greatly simplified development.

Easy to monitor webservices when needing to check the state of individual request to help our internal customers with problems with their requests.

Userfriendly interface even though its Silverlight. :)

Based on .NET and WCF, it suits our Microsoft enviroment very well.

Great at establishing better security for webservices lacking proper security on thier own.

Provides an good and update catalog of webservices

GUI based on Silverlight, but as it is to be removed in the coming 5.0 version that will no longer be a issue. :)

A quicker, cheaper and secure way to publish webservices to external partners.

Better understanding of how we use our webservices

The best thing about Sentinet so far has been the company behind it. Nevatech has been very responsive to our questions, concerns, and requests for adjustments to the product.

There are a number of features of the Sentinet product that stand out. The first is how simple it is to set up and configure. There's a small learning curve to understand the terminology used in the product and relate that back to your own view of the world, but once that's achieved then everything just "makes sense" and setting up APIs to work through Sentint is a breeze.

Sentinet is itself an API-first product. So it is also easy to establish some automation in your deployment pipeline to provision new and updated API services as well as API clients (Access Rules). We have achieved a "0-touch" model where our applications are released, Sentinet is kept current, and there is no manual intervention required.

The gateway (Node) component of the Sentinet product is also designed to support High-Availability in that the gateway can be load balanced AND it will continue to function even when the backing repository or database becomes unavailable. Because of this, we have created an automated process to deploy (and upgrade) the ENTIRE Sentinet platform in a Highly-Available manner where the entire platform in production can be upgraded in <10 minutes with ZERO downtime.

Another feature of Sentinet that we have leveraged is the ability to aggregate multiple APIs into, what appears to the client, as 1 API. This enables us to separate the physical deployments of endpoints so resources like /cars, /cars/{carId}, and /cars/{carId}/tires can appear to the client as 1 cohesive API while in reality those 3 endpionts are hosted by 3 different backing services.

There are a few quirks with Sentinet that we have had to work around although none of them have been show stoppers. And, all of our major concerns have either been already addressed with a newer version or are in Nevatech's development pipeline to be addressed.

After having used Sentinet for just over a year, and having evaluated other gateway products, if your technology stack includes Microsoft and .NET, then Sentinet is a no-brainer.

If you do not leverage .NET, Sentinet may still be a great solution for you based on Nevatech's licensing model and the ability to tie into the product via it's APIs.

The main business problem we have set out to address is the overall management of our API portfolio.

This includes having a centralized location where APIs can be discovered & attributes about each API can be maintained, we can track the usage of all of our endpoints by the client consuming them, we have a simplified approach to debugging problems in higher environments (not everyone has to log everything), and we can centralize all the high-level logging and correlation tracking in one place (again, so we don't have to keep rewriting that logic). We have already realized these benefits using the Sentinet product.

We plan to continue leveraging more features of Sentinet to help us better govern the APIs that we manage (spike arrets, quotas, SLAs, etc.) but have not gotten to that yet.

Sentinet's easy-setup saved up a lot of our time on configuring it and get it up and running. It was done as quick as in just half a day. The user interface is so intuitive that we do not need to reference to the documentation all the time. Support response is fast and can understand our issues and questions rapidly.

I was wondering why Sentinet was not on the Gartner MQ so that other users could know about its capabilities.

Look at the functions that you need now, no need to chase after those features that will never use.

A right-sized API management tool that provides all functions we need with very simple setup and maintenance effort.