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SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Overview

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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While expensive SQL Sentry is the most complete proactive monitoring and reactive troubleshooting tool I've used for SQL Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 27, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I manage the department that is responsible for all of the company's databases. We use SolarWinds SQL Sentry for monitoring our SQL servers proactively as well as reactive tro...
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Andrew Gould
Manager - Information Technology
Manager of Data Services
Integrated DNA Technologies

Sentry One a comprehensive monitoring tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 22, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sentry one is used to profile anomalies in the SQL Server like blockings, deadlocks and high CPU usage.
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Prashant BHolane
Engineer - Information Technology
Software Engineer
Prime TSR
SolarWinds SQL Sentry1 year of experience

Why Switch to SQL Sentry?

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 21, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
SQL Sentry is being used to monitor 260 SQL instances across or enterprise. We are in the process of integrating the alerting capabilities with SCOM via SNMP. Along with alert...
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Mark Lessard
Director - Information Technology
Associate Director of Database Architecture
Merkleinc
SolarWinds SQL Sentry1 year of experience

SQL Sentry - Best of Breed

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 1, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Currently, we use SQL Sentry to monitor database performance and debug issues as they arise. I open up the dashboard for our production environment at the start of each day. W...
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Derek Knutsen
Administrator - Information Technology
Database Administrator
American Health Network
SolarWinds SQL Sentry1 year of experience

SentryOne Product Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 28, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
My team uses SentryOne to monitor our production SQL environment. They will use it as a first tool to verify system health when pulled into production issues. If SQL is determ...
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Kevin R. Zakoski
Team Lead - Information Technology
Database Engineer III
LTCG
SolarWinds SQL Sentry5 years of experience
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Pricing

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Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)

$0

On Premise
Free

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)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.sqlsentry.com/portal/store

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

SQL Sentry - Live Demo

YouTube
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Features

SQL Performance Monitoring

SQL Performance Monitoring software is designed to monitor the database at all times

8.4
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

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

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Screenshots

Screenshot of SQL Sentry DeadlocksScreenshot of SQL Sentry Top SQL

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Integrations

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Competitors

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

Quest are common alternatives for SolarWinds SQL Sentry.

Reviewers rate Performance dashboard highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of SolarWinds SQL Sentry are Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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While expensive SQL Sentry is the most complete proactive monitoring and reactive troubleshooting tool I've used for SQL Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 27, 2021
AG
Andrew Gould
Manager of Data Services
Integrated DNA Technologies (Biotechnology, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Alternatives Considered
We chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry because it met more of our requirements than any other single tool. Proactive monitoring, quick collection times (every few seconds vs minutes), flexible custom alerting as well as in-depth data for performance analysis (Top SQL is by far my favorite feature).

Why Switch to SQL Sentry?

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 21, 2021
ML
Mark Lessard
Associate Director of Database Architecture
Merkleinc (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds SQL Sentry
1 year of experience
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Alternatives Considered
  • Diagnostic Manager
Diagnostic Manager has a better interface to view waits. This is an issue for me. SQL Sentry does a better job with showing SQL statments, rolling up the metrics, providing the code and is able to show the SQL plans. The alerting in SQL Sentry is easier to use. We are having issues with integrating SQL Sentry with SCOM via SNMP, SQL Sentry is working on this.

The big difference in these products is support. Both of these products have bugs and in some cases stop functioning. You can rollback to prior versions but all of this is time spent on the tool as opposed to doing the job. The support provided by SQL Sentry is magnitudes better than the support we got from Diagnostic Manager.

Sentry One a comprehensive monitoring tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 22, 2021
PB
Prashant BHolane
Software Engineer
Prime TSR (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds SQL Sentry
1 year of experience
Alternatives Considered
Detailed presentation of problems with details and graphs. This was lacking in the profiler. SQL Server has its canned reports, but not as useful as Sentry One. More variety of problem detection. For all Servers at one place. All affected servers in red are shown a one stop shop to see all affected servers.

SQL Sentry - Best of Breed

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 01, 2020
DK
Derek Knutsen
Database Administrator
American Health Network (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds SQL Sentry
1 year of experience
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Alternatives Considered
Redgate is what we historically used. It is a great simple tool. However, with our complex environment, we needed something more robust. I will miss the multiple baseline graph overlays that I have only seen in Redgate.
Idera was a very close contender. We had it installed and running against our production environment. The suite of tools is very robust. But their monitoring tool hit our CPU. Their engineers and we were never able to identify the cause of the issue.

SentryOne Product Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 28, 2020
Alternatives Considered
With 100+ production servers to monitor, cost was the main reason we were able to switch from Idera to SentryOne. Both tools had comparable features but I was able to get more from SentryOne becasue sales reps were willing to work with us and make it a more cost effective solution.
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