SQL Sentry Review
December 11, 2019

SQL Sentry Review

Justin Randolph | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry

SQL Sentry is being utilized to monitor our current SQL environment. The product has provided insight and a new form of analytics to help push maintenance in a positive direction. The department is the only current user for this monitoring software. It helps prevent failure across the whole organization. Some business problems that are addressed is the new form of communication. Having a solid reporting platform has pushed the standard for other monitoring software in our environment.

Pros

  • The reporting features and amounts of diversified emails are astonishing.
  • The program is able to drill down on granular issues that plague DB's.

Cons

  • The software does have some issues with false positives.
  • The alerting for build updates could be more detailed.
SQL Sentry is affordable and allows for more custom fields and criteria to be pushed into the program for monitoring. Azure wasn't effective for the size of our shop currently.
SQL Sentry is great for shops that are implementing more than one SQL box, but monitoring just one server that isn't traffic-intensive can be very underwhelming for new DBA's.

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

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