Sentry vs. SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Sentry

54 Reviews and Ratings

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

162 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Sentry	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Sentry provides engineering teams with tools to detect and solve user-impacting bugs and other issues.	$26 per month
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

Sentry

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Team: $26
per month
Business: $80
per month
Developer: Free
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
Sentry	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Sentry	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Considered Both Products	Sentry No answer on this topic	SolarWinds Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry The SQL Sentry sales reps and technical employees have been wonderful to work with. They have taken the extra time to educate us on the product, and they have made sure we are using it to its fullest potential. I have had a wonderful experience as a user of this tool. … Incentivized Helpful? 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? Roland Gayatin SQL Server DBA and Developer in Information Technology at Oblate Missions (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Just watching SQLSentry.tv videos and how user friendly it was, made the decision less difficult. When Brent Ozar recommended it, the blurriness went away! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Much better alerting and more comprehensive diagnostic tool set. Incentivized Helpful? Hiram Amador Database Administrator / Email Marketing Developer in Information Technology at FragranceNet.com (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We used to use DBTuna. DBTuna recorded every query, but did not record server health statistics. I believe Performance Advisor was able to deliver more information about our system, and have lower impact. When I introduced the tool to our CTO and a lot of our programmers, I was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry The service and support with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor has been excellent and much better than any of the competitors' products I have tried. The ability to make a query anonymous and submit to the SQL Sentry community is also a great feature I had never seen before in a … Incentivized Helpful? Andreas Eriksson Servers and Infrastructure in Information Technology at Sandvik IT Services (Machinery, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry We have not tried any other product. We were recommended to buy this from our SQL Consultant. Incentivized Helpful? Aron Feldman Lead Engineer, Database Engineering \| Data Sciences in Information Technology at Ticketmaster (Entertainment, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I was an Idera user. It sometimes felt very complicated to deal with the information delivered by that tool. I started to do some research and found SQL Sentry. After evaluating the product for a couple of weeks, and showing upper management what SQL Sentry was able to do, we … Incentivized Helpful? karthikeyan Thangaraju Database Administration in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Airlines/Aviation, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I was searching for a lot of tools that have more functionality like monitoring the historical queries and other stuff. In face I came to know most of the tools. Monitoring SQL Server, is one is the best. Incentivized Helpful? ARTHUR ARBUCKLE Database Administrator and Developer in Information Technology at Isagenix (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Much more organized and easier to use than Profiler and Activity Monitor. Job failure monitoring is critical. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Snow Integration Support Specialist in Information Technology at Copesan (Facilities Services, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry I have not looked at other products as of yet, but I am going to be reviewing SQL 2016 soon to see if it could be a replacement to SQL Sentry. SQL 2016 has a new Query Store function that saves the execution plans and history of previously executed queries. Currently, this is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry As a whole Sentry offers the most complete SQL Server monitoring package. Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Parsonage Senior Data Architect in Information Technology at KFC UK & Ireland (Food & Beverages, 10,001+ employees) 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, Incentivized Helpful? Ashish Upadhyay Manager of Database Administration in Information Technology at UnitedLex Corporation (Legal Services, 1001-5000 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry PA was much easier, faster to implement and quicker to get the data we were looking for out of it. 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? Marin Kostadinovic Senior Database Administrator in Information Technology at CHC Helicopter (Airlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry It came as part of SQL Sentry, otherwise both products are almost the same Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry In our opinion SQL Sentry Performance Advisor was a more complete mature tool with a great dashboard view where MANY critical elements of SQL Server performance are brought together in a single place. The historical view of data is immensely valuable. The visualization of … Incentivized Helpful? Chuck Hieber Database Administrator I in Information Technology at GreatAmerica Financial Services (Financial Services, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry Performance Advisor has been used since before I became a DBA here, and it works so well, we have never had a need to evaluate any other products. 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? Geir V. Berglind Nordic CTO in Corporate at Santander Consumer Bank AS (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry Because of previous experience with the tool, we did a short analysis of other tools and chose SQL Sentry Performance Adviser because of price, functionality, support and high expertise. 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? Alvaro Costa Sr. Database Analyst in Information Technology at White & Case LLP (Law Practice, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry was the best option that we found for SSAS monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Steve Gouin DBA SQL Server Sr in Information Technology at COGIWEB (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry SQL Sentry is more powerful and simpler to use than those products. 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

Sentry

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Sentry and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Feature	Sentry - 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

User Ratings
	Sentry	SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (12 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)