Essential for any production server
Updated April 28, 2020

Essential for any production server

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

Overall Satisfaction with SQL Sentry

Performance Advisory allows you to quickly know what the overall performance of the servers looks like. From the dashboard you can deep dive right away to any specific area that may require attention. It contains the KPIS and data of almost all aspects of the SQL Server.
  • Excellent presentation of KPIs
  • Allows you to deep dive on counters with a click of a button
  • Lets you easily move from one time frame to another
  • To allow users to configure raw data retention before it is aggregated
  • Reporting
  • To use algorithms that alert when a relevant or critical KPI is behaving abnormally
Every resource has a different way of allowing users to access performance data and events, I simply think that SQL Sentry does it the best by displaying a dashboard that allows seeing the data in angles that no other has.
I think it is well suited for all scenarios where an SQL Server is involved. Given the costs perhaps I wouldn't spend money paying for licensing on Development environments.

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Feature Ratings

Performance dashboard
10
Top SQL
10
Historical trend data
9
Virtualization support
10

Using SQL Sentry

10 - DevOps team members who are interested in seeing SQL Servers' performance
5 - Other than installing it and making sure that it has a well provisioned server, SQL Sentry doesnt require much support; they have their own team that helps with any questions, the few times we've needed them, they've been very responsive and helpful.
  • Database Performance Tunning
  • Database Monitoring
  • Database Capacity Planning
  • Better customer satisfaction
  • Better resource utilization
  • Better capacity planning
SQL Sentry is a key component to monitor our databases, we do not foresee replacing it at all