Use Sentry One and get to spend more time at the beach.
June 01, 2019

Use Sentry One and get to spend more time at the beach.

Steve Lomicka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry

We use SQL Sentry to manage in-house production and development databases as well as production databases of our clients. SQL Sentry allows us to effectively, efficiently manage many databases in our high volume, highly transactional system. This tool allows us to help us keep our system running smoothly and proactively fend off possible problems, greatly reducing and even eliminating the dreaded "the system seems slow today" phone call.

Pros

  • Determine the root cause in seconds. Determining the root cause of SQL Server issues can be a time suck in a black hole. This tool eliminates that.
  • Historical Perspective. SQL Sentry provides an easy way to review performance intuitively over time.
  • Indexes. The Query Plan Explorer almost makes tuning indexes fun.

Cons

  • UI Response Time. At times the UI is sluggish. This somewhat understandable when you realize what the tool is doing. The 2-3 UI response is not an issue though when compared with the amount of time that it saves you troubleshooting.
There are a lot of choices in this area, a few leaders. The entire process from pre-sales, to sales, training and finally using S1 daily has been smooth. The combination of all aspects of the company and product leads to a "you can't go wrong with S1" recommendation.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

SQL Performance Monitoring
9.8
Performance dashboard
10
Intelligent alerting
9
Top SQL
10
Historical trend data
10
Virtualization support
10

Comments

  • Patrick Kelley | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Patrick Kelley
    commented 5 years ago
    Hey Steve, Thank you for providing insight into how SentryOne helps you monitor your SQL Server environment. I see your note on having some performance issues loading data. I will reach out directly to set up a session to perform a health check on the SentryOne database, as this certainly not be the case.

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