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…
[SolarWinds SQL Sentry] in a Nutshell
SolarWinds SQL Sentry to monitor, identify the blocker, and fix the problem in no time
SQL Sentry is a must if you have Microsoft SQL databases
SentryOne review
Great performance tool for the experienced DBA
While expensive SQL Sentry is the most complete proactive monitoring and reactive troubleshooting tool I've used for SQL Server
Sentry One a comprehensive monitoring tool
The closest thing to time travel you will experience in SQL Server
SQL Sentry makes my job easier
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SQL Sentry to keep an eye on things
Great Performance Monitoring Tool
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Popular Features
- Performance dashboard (102)9.292%
- Top SQL (102)8.686%
- Historical trend data (100)8.686%
- Intelligent alerting (96)7.979%
Pricing
Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)
$0
SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database
$161
SQL Sentry
1,450
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
SQL Sentry - Live Demo
Features
SQL Performance Monitoring
SQL Performance Monitoring software is designed to monitor the database at all times
- 9.2Performance dashboard(102) Ratings
Dashboard displays consolidated data with drill-down capability
- 7.9Intelligent alerting(96) Ratings
Customizable alerts and reports indicating outlier values from baseline
- 8.6Top SQL(102) Ratings
Details about any long-running or high impact statements
- 8.6Historical trend data(100) Ratings
Historical trends and anomalies for SQL tuning
- 8.7Virtualization support(64) Ratings
Root cause analysis for virtual platforms like VMWare or Hyper-V
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Tech Details
- Downloadables
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
SolarWinds SQL Sentry Integrations
SolarWinds SQL Sentry Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
SolarWinds SQL Sentry Downloadables
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Reviews and Ratings
(162)Attribute Ratings
- 8.8Likelihood to Renew16 ratings
- 7.1Availability2 ratings
- 7.1Performance2 ratings
- 9Usability12 ratings
- 7.5Support Rating14 ratings
- 8In-Person Training1 rating
- 8.8Implementation Rating8 ratings
- 7.9Configurability2 ratings
- 7Product Scalability1 rating
- 5Ease of integration1 rating
- 8.5Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 8.5Vendor post-sale2 ratings
Reviews
(1-2 of 2)SQL Sentry Performance Advisor
- In-depth monitoring
- Vast array of customisation
- support
- Documentation of customization
- Configuration
- explain what is being monitored and default alert values
- Performance dashboard
- 80%8.0
- Intelligent alerting
- 50%5.0
- Top SQL
- 70%7.0
- Historical trend data
- 90%9.0
- Virtualization support
- 70%7.0
- shared knowledge
- indepth monitoring
- cusotmization
- alerting of sql server performance issues
- review history of sql server performance
- large collection of logs collected against sql server to give an overview of current or passed events
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- check install is following best practices
- allows all teams to share and review the same performance issues
- covering more environments
- Implemented in-house
- customized configuration
- changing default settings
- alerting
- in-person training
- Drill down and up from event manager to top sql,
- Customized events,
- email
- slack
- File import/export
- new features for new versions of sql server
- new features for new sql server featueres
Great Performance Engineering Tool
- I like the way that the graphs on the dashboard can be selected and synchronize to show how each are related.
- The ease at which problematic SQL can be identified by spikes on the dashboard make this tool invaluable to a Performance Engineering team.
- We have a number of installations across different environments and solution lines. The tool needs to be able to switch between them within the tree view instead of needing to connect to a different installation from the file menu
- We receive frequent timeouts when looking at the Top SQL tab on our busiest SQL servers with a lot of history. Something needs to be done on large repositories
- Performance dashboard
- 100%10.0
- Intelligent alerting
- N/AN/A
- Top SQL
- 90%9.0
- Historical trend data
- 90%9.0
- Virtualization support
- N/AN/A
- Application Performance Tuning/Engineering
- Performance Test Monitoring
- Deadlock analysis
- Blocking Monitoring and Alerting
- We needed to use the tool to provide additional evidence of unauthorized access
- We have used the tool to provide historical evidence of long running backups when our SQL Agent History is purged.
- We are considering of Extracting the Performance data from the tool into our Reporting and Analytics repositories for predictive analytics on server capacity as well as failure.
- Faster root cause analysis during production outages
- Better platform stability when developers proactively look at poor performing queries in lower life cycles.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Implemented in-house
- Firewall Rules in some cases that were blocking WMI
- Group Policy pulling service accounts out of local admin groups
- Putting too many targets into a single installation without the right number of monitoring services.
- no training
They explained what we would need to change if we wanted to capture more or all of the calls. They were also very forthcoming in telling us that lowering the number could have negative impacts on the monitoring service.
- It is very easy to spot times when performance issues were occurring
- The "highlighting" of data in multiple graphs within a selection makes it easy to correlate information
- Fixing deadlocks is so much easier using this tool.
- It is sometimes difficult to hover over certain lines in a graph to see the values. (i.e. Memory)
- It is sometimes difficult to see results over long periods of time. We frequently run into SQL Timeouts and no data if our data range is too wide
- None yet
- App Dynamics
- New Relic
- In one case an upgrade was done to fix a known bug
- Some fixes are to address performance.
- Would love to see the client interface function more like SSMS when connecting to sites. (i.e. Allow multiple sites connected at once)
- Would love to see forward and backward compatibility with the Sentry One client