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Overview

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

4.7

(16)

Pricing

Starting at $1,500.00 per year

About SolarWinds SQL Sentry

SQL Sentry is a cloud-based database monitoring solution designed to help small to large businesses track and identify performance issues across SQL servers. Key features include troubleshooting, workflow creation, index analysis, auto-responders and query optimization.

This application enables administrators to monitor SQL server environment's health through an analytics dashboard, generating graphical representations of server activity and prioritizing diagnosis. The tool helps professionals track problematic queries or processes via execution plan diagrams and query history. It also allows administrators to replay queries and identify users adding maximum load and slowing down the performance of the system.

SQL Sentry comes with an event calendar feature that lets supervisors resolve potential event conflicts by monitoring scheduled tasks and jobs in a visual format.

The solution is available on a monthly subscription basis. Support is provided via phone, email and documentation.

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,500.00 per year

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$1,500.00

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry Features

Popular features found in Database Monitoring
Alerts/Notifications
Anomaly Detection
Historical Trend Analysis
Prioritization
More features of SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Escalation
Application-Level Analysis
Capacity Planning
CPU Monitoring
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Database Monitoring
Data Migration
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Diagnostic Tools
Event Logs
Monitoring
Multitenancy
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Predictive Analytics
Query Analysis
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Optimization
Scheduling
Server Monitoring
Troubleshooting
User Management
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Visual Analytics
Workflow Management

SolarWinds SQL Sentry Integrations

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Power BI

Slack

Tableau

SolarWinds SQL Sentry User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

75%

19%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.5

Derek K.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

SQLSentry is the monitoring tool for SQL Server.

Whenever we have had any performance problems, SQLSentry has allowed me to get ahead of the problem and assisted in solving it quickly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The dashboard gives a good overall view of each instance. I have been able to identify problems before helpdesk notified us. The Top SQL allows me to quickly identify which query/application is having a problem. The event chain, while rudimentary, still makes maintenance easier. Overall, this is the best monitoring tool I have seen for a DBMS.

Cons:

The advisory conditions are difficult to manage. There is a steep learning curve in how to set them up and manage them. The event chains need some enhancements.

Eric R.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Great tool, limited active funtionality

I do like the product and have used it to find issues on many occasions. Originally it was my go-to to find all the issues. Now I tend to query the DB directly and turn to SS when I am not finding what I am looking for.... In some cases where I have an idea what the issue is I will confirm first with SS. I do wish it had more "active" functionality. Active doesnt have to run anything, but providing a script to run to dig deeper would be more helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It helps find issues on your databases (across all databases you are licenced for). It can be helpful with new code to see how it will impact the database performance.

Cons:

There are errors or warnings that are posted that are transient. The overall score can be impacted negatively by transient states.... not that I know how to get arround that. There are errors reported and when you try to get more information the details are a little cryptic. In some cases the issue being reported is inconsequential. There are some errors that are reported, but the source of the error is not easily found... it requires additional queries in SSMS to find the underlying issue. In some cases, it would be helpfull to have a drop down menu or a debug box to look into some of the more common issues.

Ranula G.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

SQL sentry for Database Server Management and Database Management

I can recommend this tool as a productive tool and also as a effective investment for a company for server management and database management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As a PHP Laravel developer I am using SQL server management tools daily, fortunately I found this interesting software tool SQL sentry. As a tool this provide details of queries and also it would make easy to join tables and other db operations with increasing efficiency. When it comes to querying I highly recommend this tool to software developers, It would helpful for junior developers and also for seniors. For Server management this will provide a feature to monitor the performances with graphs.

Cons:

This tool will spend a much CPU memory, Most of the personal laptops will getting slow when using, some times that may cause to decrease productivity.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

What a change

3 years aliens involved in an evaluation of SQL Sentry. We found the product to be quite lacking. Fast forward to 12 months ago, I decided to give Sentryone another chance. I was SUPER pleased with the turnaround. Along with the performance of the product, SenteyOne customer service moved us to purchase this product!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The customization and ease of mining the data. The senteyone team is willing to share all that they can to make this product your own. The ability to add custom alerts removed the need for my team to start rolling their own solutions for data gathering. I also,like the way that I can give access to my development teams to see history of jobs and queries allowing my team to focus on other pressing matters.

Cons:

The software could seam daunting to get started. The fact that it is so customizable could give some user trepidation in using the software. Maybe different editions of the software could ease smaller shops into using the product.

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Rest API alone was worth it

Overall it has been good working with them. CSR at the company is hands down a great resource and extremely helpful when I had an issue or just needed help getting something to work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We decided to go with SentryOne mainly for the RestSource API connector. This allowed us to automate pulling down Google Adwords and Transaction data across our clients for Analytics purposes. In the past we would have a bunch of reports emailed to us where we would need to drop them manually to a folder and then run a package to import and create our final tables.

Cons:

This con is not really about the software itself but more of the documentation on how best to use all of the components. It's hard to find good documentation so that you can go forward and ,work on all the components on your own.

Peter P.

Verified reviewer

Construction

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

SQL Sentry for when you need it

Overall we're a satisfied customer of Sentry one. It features a great toolset for troubleshooting issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The amount of detail it logs in the features it provides to do a deep dive analysis of performance issues in a SQL Database

Cons:

It can be a bit overwhelming. The user interface could benefit from an update so that users can navigate their way more easily around the application.

Reasons for choosing SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Amount of features

Blake M.

Chemicals

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Great tool with great support.

I am extremely happy with my experience using SentryOne even with some of our holdups. This tool has proven useful time and time again. It has helped us troubleshoot active issues and find resolutions quickly. The value it has provided greatly outweighs its pitfalls.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SentryOne provides both useful information about our environment as well as accurate alerting for critical issues. The tool collects a lot of information from the servers that we use daily to troubleshoot issues and correct problem areas. The Conditions and Alerts allows us to respond to critical issues quickly by allowing multiple response options to a number of conditions.

Cons:

Our group has had some issues with implementing SentryOne. The environment we support is very large and spread throughout the globe. Sometimes in very remote regions. This has caused us some issues with having all of our sites being monitored efficiently. However, SentryOne's support team worked with us to get these sites monitored and continue to work with us to improve the tools performance.

Kris S.

Verified reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

SQL Sentry

SQL Sentry saves alot of time, and nicely organises pertinant information for SQL Server performance. I can find poor performing queries faster than using my own sql scripts. It helps me with monitoring the general health of the SQL server, trends of performance and finding which procedures need work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A quick way to find performance problems, and the software provides lots of information to solve them too.

Cons:

This is a difficult question, i had to dig deep. The mouse scroll button does not always work within some forms.

Verified

Reviewer

Chemicals

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

SQL Server monitoring leader

SQL Sentry is now our go-to platform for monitoring SQL Server and troubleshooting SQL Server performance. Our developers use the SQL Sentry client as well and are able to investigate issues on their own without always having to rely on our Database Administrators.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SQL Sentry provides the most comprehensive view of SQL Server performance available. It allows us to very quickly identify performance issues and identify a root cause.

Cons:

SQL Sentry can be challenging to set up for very large enterprises.

Rob G.

Verified reviewer

Construction

5001-10000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Specifically, Plan Explorer

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It's free, it provides a ton of extra information (in a much easier to read format), and it integrates super cleanly with SSMS. It doesn't require Management Studio, but it's seamless to open a plan in SSMS and then view the details in Plan Explorer

Cons:

It would be nice if it more closely integrated with the metadata in SQL. If I open a SSMS query plan in Plan Explorer, it won't give me index information unless I create the estimated plan in Explorer also. It makes you copy the query text over. Minor complaint, especially because it's an incredible value for the money. No reason NOT to use it.

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