Item: SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 and Cons

Pros

GUI Interface
Reporting
Metrics

Cons

Web client interface
More alert\notification features

Alternatives Considered

As a whole Sentry offers the most complete SQL Server monitoring package.

Other Software Used

Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server, Dell Spotlight

Likelihood to Recommend

The key feature for SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is that it can be used for almost all issues.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

Comments

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Rachel Siragusa
(Vendor Representative) commented 9 years ago
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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