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 Redgate Monitor | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | Redgate’s SQL Monitor helps teams looking after SQL servers be more proactive. SQL Monitor enables monitoring environments custom to the user’s SQL server to recognize issues before they impact users. It supports monitoring on-premises and cloud-based servers from a single interface. | $1,164 per year per server |
 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 |
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| Considered Both Products | Chose Redgate Monitor I personally prefer SQL Sentry due to the flexibility in the custom metrics/monitoring but this is still a great product!! Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info | 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I evaluated both and thought that SQL Sentry was a much more mature and complete product for approximately the same cost. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I felt they were all comparable to each other. SolarWinds DPA had the best interface but we chose SQL Sentry due to the difference in cost. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I found SQL Sentry to be the best bang for the buck by a good margin. Redgate makes great software too, so that is a big compliment in my book. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry For me it is it's simplicity. For example, highlight a spike in CPU, right click and view top SQL!!!! Awesome!!! Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I selected this tool over SQL Monitor as it provided the all round package, it seemed to dig deeper into the server that SQL Monitor and the interface is so much nicer to use, Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We evaluated couple of product on certain parameters like global view, performance tuning recommendations, analysis, expensive/long running queries, IO information, alerts, dashboard, reports, licensing model and pricing etc. We decided to select SQL Sentry Performance Advisor … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry It came as part of SQL Sentry, otherwise both products are almost the same Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry is more powerful and simpler to use than those products. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We selected Performance Advisor primarily due to the intuitive primary display, drill-down ability, ease of use and low overhead. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 8.6 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.8 |
| Usability | 7.0 | 9.0 |
| Availability | - | 7.1 |
| Performance | - | 7.1 |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | 7.5 |
| In-Person Training | - | 8.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.8 |
| Configurability | - | 7.9 |
| Ease of integration | - | 5.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 7.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 8.5 |
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