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What is SolarWinds SQL Sentry?
SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help data professionals optimize SQL Server database performance in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. SQL Sentry delivers metrics to help users find and fix database performance problems and provides scalability, boasting demonstrated success monitoring 800+ SQL Server…
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- Performance dashboard (102)9.292%
- Top SQL (102)8.686%
- Historical trend data (100)8.686%
- Intelligent alerting (96)7.979%
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Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)
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SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database
$161
On Premise
Per year per database (annual subscription)
SQL Sentry
1,450
On Premise
Per year per instance (annual subscription)
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- No setup fee
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What is SolarWinds SQL Sentry?
SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help data professionals optimize SQL Server database performance in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. SQL Sentry delivers metrics to help users find and fix database performance problems and provides scalability, boasting demonstrated success monitoring 800+ SQL Server instances with one monitoring database.
With SQL Sentry, the user can monitor:
- SQL Server
- Azure SQL Database
- SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
- SQL Server on Hyper-V or VMware VMs (including host)
- SQL Server on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- SQL Server on Amazon RDS
- SQL Server on Amazon EC2
- SQL Server on Linux
Although a SQL Sentry license can be used to monitor Azure SQL Database in a hybrid environment, dedicated licensing is available for large Azure SQL Database environments.
SolarWinds SQL Sentry Features
SQL Performance Monitoring Features
- Supported: Performance dashboard
- Supported: Intelligent alerting
- Supported: Top SQL
- Supported: Historical trend data
- Supported: Virtualization support
Additional Features
- Supported: Query plan analysis
- Supported: Blocking and deadlock analysis
- Supported: Event Calendar
- Supported: Advisory Conditions
- Supported: AlwaysOn Availability Groups monitoring
- Supported: Index analysis
- Supported: Storage Forecasting
- Supported: SQL Sentry Portal (installed SQL Sentry web interface)
- Supported: Environment Health Overview
- Supported: Tempdb analysis
- Supported: SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) monitoring
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SolarWinds SQL Sentry Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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April 21, 2021
Why Switch to SQL Sentry?
4
Our SQL Sentry installation is realitively complex. We monitor over 250 instances using multiple monitors hosted on multiple hosts providing access into various firewalled networks. In general SQL Sentry requires little support on a day to day bases other than backups of the repositroy. Upgrades are a different story and require a person with database administration skills, basic networking skills and the abiltiy to work with services on a windows operating system. We spend about 8 manhours on an upgrade. That said Sentry One's latest release has an automated upgrade feature, I hope it works as designed.
If you want to make use of the custom alerting capabilities then be prepared for a steep learning curve.
If you want to make use of the custom alerting capabilities then be prepared for a steep learning curve.
May 23, 2020
Sql Sentry, a power tool for DBAs
5
Database administrators and data developers get the most benefit out of Sentry One. In the absence of a network operations center, the light, fairly complete trace allow for us to know what happened while we weren't watching. Understanding the information presented and why it is important require an understanding of SQL server and Azure databases
May 02, 2020
SQL Sentry provides Insight to SQL Server
1
Advanced understanding of SQL Server, from logic to physical aspects.
1
Just me
May 01, 2020
SQL Sentry Performance Advisor
3
dba/dev/ops
May 01, 2020
SQL Sentry - Best of Breed
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
1
I am the database administrator who has been to conference sessions with SentryOne. I have also had personalized training with the product.
May 01, 2020
Force Multiplier
10
SQL Sentry provides significantly detailed help and information resources, which enables non SQL Server DBAs and Management the ability to review the platform and cross reference metrics, enabling a better understanding of the SQL Server platform.
April 29, 2020
Great Performance Engineering Tool
5
The support requirements to keep this tool running are extremely low. The minimum required footprint is really just one server depending on the load and number of servers being monitored. Our DevOps team is able to handle this within their team. They perform the initial installation and handle upgrades as well as license expansion.
April 28, 2020
Lives up to the hype
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
3
Database Administrators, need to understand servers and software
April 28, 2020
SentryOne Product Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
2
My L3 Database Administrator handles the main installation and configuration of SQL Sentry. We run mainly with out-of-box features which don't take a lot of skills to implement. Where I see a higher level of skill needed is configuring and setting up custom alerts where you need a better understanding of events being triggered an how to resolve them when they're triggered.
April 28, 2020
Essential for any production server
5
Other than installing it and making sure that it has a well provisioned server, SQL Sentry doesnt require much support; they have their own team that helps with any questions, the few times we've needed them, they've been very responsive and helpful.
1
Not a lot is necessary, just experience with the product to provide quick guidance when necessary.
November 19, 2019
It's not Just a Good Choice. It's the Only Complete SQL Performance Analysis Tool Out There
November 18, 2019
SentryOne worked for us!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
March 15, 2019
SQL Sentry Review
1
From our experience, sqlsentry can be used from junior to very senior sql server users. The more you know about sql server the more you'll get from the product
August 01, 2016
SQL Sentry Business Use Case
4
Database and System Admins. Devops.
February 19, 2016
It just works.
2
DBA, ETL developers