SQL Sentry Review
April 27, 2016

SQL Sentry Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor

We purpose SQL Sentry Performance Advisor to monitor our mission critical in-house and vendor SQL Server databases. The two major uses for Sentry are: 1. Monitor these databases in real-time. 2. Analysis on historical metrics which are used for app issues and resource consumption.

Pros

  • GUI Interface
  • Reporting
  • Metrics

Cons

  • Web client interface
  • More alert\notification features
As a whole Sentry offers the most complete SQL Server monitoring package.
The key feature for SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is that it can be used for almost all issues.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

Performance dashboard
7
Intelligent alerting
6
Top SQL
8
Historical trend data
9
Virtualization support
8

Comments

  • Rachel Siragusa | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Hello, Thank you for taking the time to rate and review SQL Sentry. We have started working on a web interface that will offer additional functionality beyond what is currently available through our Cloud feature. Given your comment on alerting, my guess is that you are currently only utilizing Performance Advisor, as Event Manager is our core alerting product. While Performance Advisor does have less out of the box alerting than Event Manager, you still have Custom Conditions that you can utilize. These can be used to alert on almost any situation. If you ever have questions about Custom Conditions, please do not hesitate to contact our Support team (support@sqlsentry.com). Just in case, I have supplied some links that you may find helpful. -http://blogs.sqlsentry.com/greggonzalez/sql-sentry-v8-intelligent-alerting-redefined/ -http://blogs.sqlsentry.com/melissaconnors/sql-sentry-custom-conditions-logic/ Thank you for being a valued SQL Sentry customer!

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