IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server vs. SolarWinds SQL Sentry

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

15 Reviews and Ratings

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

162 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server	Score9 out of 10	N/A	SQL Diagnostic Manager for Microsoft SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix Microsoft SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy Microsoft SQL Server and…	$1,996 per instance with first year maintenance included
SolarWinds SQL Sentry	Score9 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds 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

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Standard via eCommerce: 1,996.00
per instance with first year maintenance included

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)

Pricing Offerings
IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Considered Both Products	IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company) Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA DBA / Sr. Data Analyst in Information Technology at Boostability (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server All the toolsets we looked at have the same basic feature sets. We felt like IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server had more features (SQL Doctor features) and better historical features. More toolsets now have a lot of these features, but for eight years, IDERA SQL … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry It provided a much better feature set Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry has a LOT more information in it than the SolarWinds DPA product. Its reporting tool isn't as good either. The IDERA product isn't as reliable as SQL Sentry and its reporting isn't nearly as good. The IDERA UI is a resource hog and isn't as intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Gould Manager of Data Services in Information Technology at Integrated DNA Technologies (Biotechnology, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry because it met more of our requirements than any other single tool. Proactive monitoring, quick collection times (every few seconds vs minutes), flexible custom alerting as well as in-depth data for performance analysis (Top SQL is by far my … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I have used tools from Idera, redgate, and also Solarwinds. SQL Sentry is one of the better tools out on the market in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry It has been a while now since using the Idera product, but SQL Sentry seems to provide greater configuration and alerting options. SQL Sentry offers 12 different options, all of which are configurable individually for each alert. It can be done at the global level as well as by … Incentivized Helpful? Adrian Sullivan Senior SQL Engineer in Information Technology at Lexel Systems Limited (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Both tools cover what you'd expect from an enterprise-grade SQL monitoring tool. Performance monitoring, alerting and diagnostics on both the tools are excellent and I cannot fault either on technical capabilities and feature offerings. For SQL Managed Services providers, SQL … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Wheetly Lead, Relational Database Team in Information Technology at CDK Global (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I have tried SQL optimizer and Idera's diagnostic manager. Of the three, SQL Sentry is my favorite. I like the dashboard, the tab layout, the interface. Incentivized Helpful? Vasilis Papamichael Databases and Security Administrator in Information Technology at GAS Supply Company (Oil & Energy, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Sentry is more centralized and wide open. It has abilities to "dive" into deepest SQL aspects providing details that other products are just unable to do. It is not just a quick monitoring, alerting tool. It has the unique ability to "teach" or "remind" you (throughout policies … Incentivized Helpful? terry anthony Senior Database Developer in Information Technology at EnableComp (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry The former company I worked for had such an extremely large and high volume transaction volume. Idera's SQL Diagnostic Manager just could not keep up with the pace of the transactions. The main SQL server cluster was running between 25,000 to 50,000 transactions per second (24 … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Howell Software Developer, DBA in Information Technology at USLI (Insurance, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We selected Performance Advisor primarily due to the intuitive primary display, drill-down ability, ease of use and low overhead. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Dickover, PMP Manager Application Development and Database Services in Information Technology at Breakthru Beverage Group (Wine and Spirits, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Other tools in the SQL Sentry Suite helped determine the purchasing decision. In particular the SQL Sentry Event manager product allowed us to easily connect and visualize the overnight process. Previously the overnight process was schedule driven and prone to fail as a result … Incentivized Helpful? David Klee Founder and Chief Architect in Information Technology at Heraflux Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry PA has the lightest monitoring footprint of any of the other third-party applications out there. The featureset of PA includes things such as virtualization monitoring, top SQL statements, and granular historical trending that other products miss or gloss over. The sheer amount … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry was just a more slick application to use versus Idera. Visually it was easier to navigate and manage, and the ability to move licenses about to Instances was a benefit. Incentivized Helpful? Timothy Ford Team Lead: Database Administration in Information Technology at SurveyMonkey (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry The sheer amount of information, ability to tune almost all areas of alerting and thresholds, and the low impact of monitoring as well as transparency into how their monitoring processes may impact performance gives them the advantage over these others. In some cases their … Incentivized Helpful? Chuck Schweiger SQL DBA in Information Technology at Wonderbox Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We actually use both tools. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Heaivilin SQL Sever DBA Team Lead in Information Technology at Epiq Systems (Legal Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry For us, there were 3 big items that swung SQL Sentry. 1) customization of alerts and notification 2) polers in other domains allow for a more secure deployment. In addition, the polers allow for redundancy, ensuring we are spending time fighting fires, not fixing the fire … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Feature	IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server 8.0 4 Ratings	SolarWinds SQL Sentry 8.4 102 Ratings
Performance dashboard	9.04 Ratings	9.1102 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	8.04 Ratings	7.996 Ratings
Top SQL	9.04 Ratings	8.6102 Ratings
Historical trend data	9.04 Ratings	8.6100 Ratings
Virtualization support	5.04 Ratings	8.764 Ratings

User Ratings
	IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (4 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)