Catchpoint vs SolarWinds SQL Sentry | TrustRadius

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Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 7 reviews and ratings

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 151 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Catchpoint

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Performance dashboard

Intelligent alerting

Top SQL

Historical trend data

Virtualization support

Pros

Reporting
Customized scripts

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Provides a fantastic review capability for historic data, collating data in a far more efficient, presentable way than you can with default tools. You know that if a customer experienced even the slightest performance dip overnight, you can review that to the finest detail later.
A highly customisable monitoring system, providing rock solid information which you can drill down to the smallest detail.
An outstanding Support Team, which continues to go above and beyond any expectations.
The perfect SQL Server monitoring platform.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Would like Catchpoint to replace awful canned scheduled reports with customized ad-hoc reports built from the Performance tab.
Pricing for Catchpoint Points is too high. Limits the number of tests we use.

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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The presentation of SQL server waits needs work. A large value on a throw away wait like cxpacket will change the scale such that an important wait like sos_schedular _yield is not readable. I have been told this is being addressed in the next release.
Installation of the client requires sysadmin access on the repository server for the initial install. Once the install is complete sysadmin can be removed.
There is a web interface but this does not have much of the functionality yet.
I have not found a way to view page splits over time.

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Associate Director of Database Architecture

MerkleincMarketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 8.9

Based on 16 answers

This tool is invaluable within our organization. With the recent financial impacts to businesses across the globe related to Covid-19, we were asked if we could reduce licenses to cut costs. When we pointed out the business value that the tool brings and the risks that would be taken by not having the tool, the decision was clear. We looked elsewhere to makes cuts.

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Senior application architect

AonInsurance, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Catchpoint 7.0

Based on 1 answer

It's hard to find the functionalities that I am looking for in the application. Even if I did something in the past, after a time I have to re-learn again where the functionalities are. This is a powerful tool, but not user-friendly. Texts in the buttons and menus are not always meaningful or easily comprehensible.

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Analyst in Quality Assurance

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 9.2

Based on 12 answers

I don't know how we survived before without this tool, the added value that you get from it to do deep dive performance analysis, reactive problem solving and proactive monitoring and alerting is limitless. We have only scratched the surface of what we can do with this tool at my company. The support and ROI that SentryOne provide is exceptional and one of my favourite vendors to deal with.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 7.1

Based on 4 answers

The system is working perfectly in capturing data, but we do experience issues with SQL Timeout when viewing results in the remote clients. This may be due to the fact that our monitoring service is consuming most of the CPU, and it is the same server that is hosting the SQL Repository. We could probably fix the issue by separating the SQL instance from the monitoring service.

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Senior application architect

AonInsurance, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

No score

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 7.1

Based on 4 answers

In most cases the pages load very quickly. In our particular case, we need to do some movement of services to separate our monitoring service to separate infrastructure from the repository. When we first started with SQL Sentry on 5 licenses, we did not have any issues. Since we have now grown that to 25, we are experiencing some challenges. We do not believe this to be a tool problem

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Senior application architect

AonInsurance, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Catchpoint 8.9

Based on 6 answers

Whenever asked for, the representatives would jump onto a call and help us out with ongoing issues without any trouble.

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Employee in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 9.9

Based on 19 answers

The main platform is very well supported. Requests for help with customizing alerts and monitors have been rapidly and thoroughly responded to. Our use of the chain feature seems to be out of the ordinary and our defect reports there while understood and taken seriously, tend to be lower priority than defects in the main platform. They will work diligently to give us a workaround but correction in the standard release is a little slower in the chain feature.

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Kevin Dickover, PMP

Manager Application Development and Database Services

Breakthru Beverage GroupWine and Spirits, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 8.0

Based on 1 answer

sql sentry expert came onsight to review the performance of installation and gave us a good insight to using the tool

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Technician in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 8.5

Based on 18 answers

Was suggested that we install the process monitors on a dev or qa database server, but we found it more useful to create an IT db server and put it there (along with a few other apps that we use for monitoring).

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Employee in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We are an ex-Keynote customer and an ex-Gomez customer. Catchpoint is better than both of those platforms.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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SQL Sentry offers more features and is customize-able to fit our business needs. It has more centralized management and support. The company's technical support is also top notch. It is also worth mentioning that SentryOne Team Blog is an excellent source. One can find lots of valuable troubleshooting skills on the blog site - very educational and informational.

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Database Administrator

J. Spargo & AssociatesEvents Services, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

No score

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry 7.0

Based on 1 answer

We are running 25 instances through a single monitoring service and it is able to keep up. We are finding that this many instances in our environment is about as many as can be handled. We will need to deploy additional monitoring services. Luckily, there is no additional licensing costs to deploy additional monitoring services. For us, it's just an additional Azure VM.

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Senior application architect

AonInsurance, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

It's very helpful to run tests after a deployment or release, so we can quickly see at the results before investing time on testing manually or running other tools.
It provides alerts, so we can be aware of errors even during the weekends (when our engineering team is not usually looking at the application).

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Analyst in Quality Assurance

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Better customer service as it alerts me automatically to loss of service issues so I can react and either get things fixed before it impacts the customers or to let my management know as soon as possible
It helps me find expensive SQL so our customers get better performance and we make better use of our resources

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Senior Database Administrator

EJ WardOil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Catchpoint Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Editions & Modules

Edition

SQL Sentry	$1,450¹
Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)	$0²
SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database	$161³

Per year per instance (annual subscription)
Free
Per year per database (annual subscription)

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