Best tool to monitor SQL Server
August 28, 2017

Best tool to monitor SQL Server

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry

It's being used by a department. It addresses the quick pinpoint and resolution of any spike in resource utilization and there by avoiding impact to customer response time.

Pros

  • Professional graphical interface.
  • Zoom into deep dive into issues.
  • Ability to create a baseline and generate alerts on baseline deviation.

Cons

  • Check historical information on specific SQL
  • Give overall advice post installation on tools on low hanging fruits which can be fixed right away
  • Zoom in for deep dive on any spike of resources
  • Professional dashboard with coverage of OS and DB components in one page.
  • Ease in creating a baseline.
  • Week over week analysis.
  • Auto gathering of baseline.
Across all the tools available in the market for SQL server, I would SentryOne is head of the competitors.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

SQL Performance Monitoring
9.0
Performance dashboard
10
Intelligent alerting
8
Top SQL
9
Historical trend data
9
Virtualization support
Not Rated

Comments

  • Jason Hall | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Jason Hall
    (Vendor Representative) commented 8 years ago
    Thanks for the great review, You may be happy to hear that we've got a release coming very soon that will help you analyze query history much more effectively!

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