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Foglight vs. SolarWinds SQL Sentry

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Foglight

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AFoglight is a database performance management suite from Quest, with modules to perform cloud analytics, network performance monitoring and virtualization management, scaling to a broad, cloud / virtualization focused IT infrastructure monitoring solution.N/A

    SolarWinds SQL Sentry

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help data professionals optimize SQL Server database performance in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. SQL Sentry delivers metrics to help users find and fix database performance problems and provides scalability, boasting demonstrated success monitoring 800+ SQL Server instances with one monitoring database. With SQL Sentry, the user can monitor: SQL Server Azure SQL Database SQL Server Analysis…

    $0

    Free

    Pricing
    FoglightSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)
    $0
    Free
    SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database
    $161
    Per year per database (annual subscription)
    SQL Sentry
    1,450
    Per year per instance (annual subscription)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FoglightSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    FoglightSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Considered Both Products
    Quest Software
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    I like SQL Sentry the best. Foglight was a long time ago and way more comprehensive tool than I needed at the time. Diagnostic Manager has some good features but I had some capacity and performance issues at times with it. SQL Sentry has been consistent and effective at …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Sentry seemed to answer these scenarios better than competitors:

    1."Death by a thousand cuts" - an execution plan now takes 1.2 seconds that used to take .2 seconds to run. The underlying query is run thousands of times per hour and the load on the server has more than …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    • Zoom in for deep dive on any spike of resources
    • Professional dashboard with coverage of OS and DB components in one page.
    • Ease in creating a baseline.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    I've not considered any other monitoring solutions for SQL Server since I feel SQL Sentry has been most useful when compared to Foglight.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FoglightSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Foglight and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Foglight
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    8.4
    102 Ratings
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings9.1102 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings7.996 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings8.6102 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings8.6100 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings8.764 Ratings
    User Ratings
    FoglightSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)