New Relic vs. SolarWinds SQL Sentry

New Relic

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
New Relic	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.	$0 No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
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

New Relic

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Free (Forever): $0
No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
Telemetry Data Platform: $0.25
per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
Incident Intelligence: $0.50
per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
Standard: $99
per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
Pro: Contact sales team
Enterprise: Contact sales team

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
New Relic	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	New Relic	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Considered Both Products	New Relic No answer on this topic	SolarWinds Jun Tang Database Administrator in Information Technology at J. Spargo & Associates (Events Services, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry offers more features and is customize-able to fit our business needs. It has more centralized management and support. The company's technical support is also top notch. It is also worth mentioning that SentryOne Team Blog is an excellent source. One can find lots of … Incentivized Helpful?
	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

New Relic

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of New Relic and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Feature	New Relic - Ratings	SolarWinds SQL Sentry 8.4 102 Ratings
Performance dashboard	00 Ratings	9.1102 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	00 Ratings	7.996 Ratings
Top SQL	00 Ratings	8.6102 Ratings
Historical trend data	00 Ratings	8.6100 Ratings
Virtualization support	00 Ratings	8.764 Ratings