SQL Sentry Performance Advisor Review
February 17, 2016

SQL Sentry Performance Advisor Review

Leonardo Velez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor

Because we provide internal and external to different clients (6000 clients); the idea was to centralize the monitoring to one dedicated server, receive the alerts and take actions. Even thought there was already one in place; having a SQL dedicated one makes the DBA task way more easy.

People used to complained a lot of the issues of the solutions we provide was due to the SQL; after SQL Sentry I can show the stats and numbers speaks by themself - they were mostly code issues.
  • Saving the SQL stats and showing them in an easy and graphical manner
  • I can easily do a report on SQL stats
  • I can actually see what user or application caused deadlocks or is blocking the DB
  • From version to version SQL Sentry changes the way it collects data; that can cause some misreadings or incorrect stats.
  • When you first see the stats from Performance Advisor you need to expend a lot of time until you have an idea of what they mean.
  • The documentation is not easy to understand.
  • TOAD, IDERA and QBS
It is easy to install; not intrusive and most importantly does not try to replace the SQL Management Studio, it works with it.
If you want a centralized monitoring tool, SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is one of the best choices; it does not try to replace the SSMS but it works with it. Other tools want to do everything and they excel in none. SQL Sentry actually excels in collecting the stats from the SQL environment.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

Performance dashboard
10
Intelligent alerting
9
Top SQL
8
Historical trend data
10
Virtualization support
8