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SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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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
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SQL Server
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Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)
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SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database
$161
Per year per database (annual subscription)
SQL Sentry
1,450
Per year per instance (annual subscription)
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The SQL Sentry sales reps and technical employees have been wonderful to work with. They have taken the extra time to educate us on the product, and they have made sure we are using it to its fullest potential. I have had a wonderful experience as a user of this tool. …
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Database Administrator in Information Technology at J. Spargo & Associates (Events Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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 …
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SQL Server DBA and Developer in Information Technology at Oblate Missions (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Just watching SQLSentry.tv videos and how user friendly it was, made the decision less difficult. When Brent Ozar recommended it, the blurriness went away!
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Much better alerting and more comprehensive diagnostic tool set.
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Database Administrator / Email Marketing Developer in Information Technology at FragranceNet.com (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
We used to use DBTuna. DBTuna recorded every query, but did not record server health statistics. I believe Performance Advisor was able to deliver more information about our system, and have lower impact. When I introduced the tool to our CTO and a lot of our programmers, I was …
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The service and support with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor has been excellent and much better than any of the competitors' products I have tried. The ability to make a query anonymous and submit to the SQL Sentry community is also a great feature I had never seen before in a …
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Lead Engineer, Database Engineering | Data Sciences in Information Technology at Ticketmaster (Entertainment, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
I was an Idera user. It sometimes felt very complicated to deal with the information delivered by that tool. I started to do some research and found SQL Sentry. After evaluating the product for a couple of weeks, and showing upper management what SQL Sentry was able to do, we …
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Database Administration in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Airlines/Aviation, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
I was searching for a lot of tools that have more functionality like monitoring the historical queries and other stuff. In face I came to know most of the tools. Monitoring SQL Server, is one is the best.
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Integration Support Specialist in Information Technology at Copesan (Facilities Services, 201-500 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
I have not looked at other products as of yet, but I am going to be reviewing SQL 2016 soon to see if it could be a replacement to SQL Sentry. SQL 2016 has a new Query Store function that saves the execution plans and history of previously executed queries. Currently, this is …
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Verified User
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
As a whole Sentry offers the most complete SQL Server monitoring package.
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Senior Data Architect in Information Technology at KFC UK & Ireland (Food & Beverages, 10,001+ employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
I selected this tool over SQL Monitor as it provided the all round package, it seemed to dig deeper into the server that SQL Monitor and the interface is so much nicer to use,
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Manager of Database Administration in Information Technology at UnitedLex Corporation (Legal Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
We evaluated couple of product on certain parameters like global view, performance tuning recommendations, analysis, expensive/long running queries, IO information, alerts, dashboard, reports, licensing model and pricing etc. We decided to select SQL Sentry Performance Advisor …
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Verified User
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SQL Sentry PA was much easier, faster to implement and quicker to get the data we were looking for out of it.
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Lead, Relational Database Team in Information Technology at CDK Global (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
I have tried SQL optimizer and Idera's diagnostic manager. Of the three, SQL Sentry is my favorite. I like the dashboard, the tab layout, the interface.
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In our opinion SQL Sentry Performance Advisor was a more complete mature tool with a great dashboard view where MANY critical elements of SQL Server performance are brought together in a single place. The historical view of data is immensely valuable. The visualization of …
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Database Administrator I in Information Technology at GreatAmerica Financial Services (Financial Services, 201-500 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
SQL Sentry Performance Advisor has been used since before I became a DBA here, and it works so well, we have never had a need to evaluate any other products.
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Databases and Security Administrator in Information Technology at GAS Supply Company (Oil & Energy, 201-500 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Sentry is more centralized and wide open. It has abilities to "dive" into deepest SQL aspects providing details that other products are just unable to do. It is not just a quick monitoring, alerting tool. It has the unique ability to "teach" or "remind" you (throughout policies …
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Nordic CTO in Corporate at Santander Consumer Bank AS (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Because of previous experience with the tool, we did a short analysis of other tools and chose SQL Sentry Performance Adviser because of price, functionality, support and high expertise.
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Senior Database Developer in Information Technology at EnableComp (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)
Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
The former company I worked for had such an extremely large and high volume transaction volume. Idera's SQL Diagnostic Manager just could not keep up with the pace of the transactions. The main SQL server cluster was running between 25,000 to 50,000 transactions per second (24 …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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Great for standard web application performance monitoring, analytics and error reporting. Shows line level code errors, gives insight into performance issues (plugins, API issues, etc.). Automation and scheduled scanning in production gives client visibility into 'after deployment' value. Also lets a relatively small number of developers keep tabs on a handful of different site/applications without needing a bunch of tools. The UI is pretty complicated and can be overwhelming for new users. Documentation could be better for the learning curve,
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This solution is perfect for a team with a large server count and, at least, moderate experience supporting a SQL Server environment. If the environment is smaller or the team has less experience working with SQL Server performance tuning methodologies, then the tool may be overwhelming for the users.
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Great web interface. Lots of data available in a really clean format, with filtering options and more.
Per-user exception tracking. User is complaining about something being broken? Look up their account ID in Sentry and you can see if they've run into any exceptions (with device information included, of course).
Source map uploading. Took a little while to figure this out but now we have our deploy script upload sourcemaps to Sentry on each deployment, meaning we get to see stack traces that aren't obfuscated!
Very generous free tier – 10,000 events per month. We're nowhere near that yet.
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The Top SQL functionality has been extremely useful for identifying poorly performing queries by resource consumption.
The flexibility of creating your own Advisory Conditions has allowed us to integrate our custom internal alerts into a centralized dashboard and alerting platform.
Being able to highlight any chart on the dashboard and then tool-matching that window across all the other charts makes it much easier to correlate the different performance metrics against each other.
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Tuning advice: With all the graphs and data available, it's not always easy to determine the best thing to do. I'd like to see SentryOne provide some best practice analysis based on the historical information collected for the server being looked at.
They could add help tips or links to help documents, when you select a graph on the dashboard. Inexperienced users tend to put blinders on and focus on one thing when they see a high counter or something out of the ordinary. It would be very useful to include a link that provides underlying help. The link would provide an explanation of the counter in detail and offer possible explanations as to why the counter is off.
Absolutely. SQL Sentry is an absolute must have for any company with a SQL Server estate. It provides a force multiplier to effectively manage SQL Server, and the feature sets are second to none. The support and expertise at SentryOne is incredible. They are very supportive of both the platform users and helping your business with the product
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Its incredibly versatile, but that leads to complexity for the uninitiated, which can be intimidating. Nevertheless its a well polished product, in our case leading to only using it for a focus on frontend is still more cost effective than buying a one-to-rule-them-all tool...
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I accept that the flexibility of the alerting comes at a price. Other than the alerting SQL Sentry's interface is intuitive. Connecting to a new SQL instance, given that all the needed ports are open in your firewalls is straight forward. Reviewing the performance and queries for an instance is available in with a right click. As you dig in new tabs are created to present the detailed data. I find the ability to filter and rollup metrics on a query very helpful in dealing with the "it's running slow". You can easily compare the metrics of run times for the same query to let the user know, it's probably data your doing a billion reads instead of the usual 100 thousand.
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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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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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From their infancy as a smaller company to now as a global player they have always kept focus on prioritising he customer. They know their product and the technology it supports and are easily accessible for both resolving problems with the product all the way to adding value through additional training and assisting with getting return on investment through utilisation of the many features the product provides.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
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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It is cheaper and offers better support for front-end applications for enterprise large environments with more then 30 scrum teams and hundreds of micro frontend applications. The configuration options, both with the agent and from the user interface, are superior to other tools, and the documentation is also very easy to use.
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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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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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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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