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    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…

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    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Editions & Modules
    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)
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    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    It provided a much better feature set
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    [SolarWinds] SQL Sentry was tested against multiple monitoring systems, but [it] topped them all as [it] was a monitoring tool that was created to pinpoint SQL Server and nothing else. It has features that a lot of other monitoring systems don't have and are not even developing …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    I wasn't involved in the decision-making for SQL Sentry, but having previously used PlanExplorer, I felt confident that SQL Sentry would be a good fit to monitor our Microsoft SQL Instances. I would recommend this platform to others that have Microsoft SQL that is in need of …
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Detailed presentation of problems with details and graphs. This was lacking in the profiler. SQL Server has its canned reports, but not as useful as Sentry One. More variety of problem detection. For all Servers at one place. All affected servers in red are shown a one stop …
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    For our use, SQL Sentry is just a better fit. It's faster to implement and easier to find the data we wanted to see.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    I personally haven't looked at others although some other departments have used Idera solution and then switched to SQL Sentry.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    AppDynamics strength lies in showing how the tiers of an application are performing. It shows some things that are good at a macro level for SQL, but it lacks the ability to dig into root cause as well as SQL Sentry. Spotlight and Foglight are also good tools in the space. …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Sentry is affordable and allows for more custom fields and criteria to be pushed into the program for monitoring. Azure wasn't effective for the size of our shop currently.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    With 100+ production servers to monitor, cost was the main reason we were able to switch from Idera to SentryOne. Both tools had comparable features but I was able to get more from SentryOne becasue sales reps were willing to work with us and make it a more cost effective …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    We evaluated several monitoring tools before choosing SQL Sentry:
    Solarwinds
    DataDog
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    None, I've used SQL Sentry at another job in the past and recommended it to be used at my current job.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    I use Toad and SolarWinds. Spotlight used too much of a server's resources. Sequel Pro was not as well-rounded for SQL reviews.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Sentry gives a more complete view of the environment with the advantage of making recommendations of fixes to performance issues.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    We demoed almost all of the major players in SQL Server monitoring and it was easily the winner for all DBAs
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Sentry provided 24/7 indepth visibility and on a feature to feature comparison, simply outweighted other options available. The expertise at SentryOne is incredible, and it is reflected in their passion for the product, and the development and constant engagement with the …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Every resource has a different way of allowing users to access performance data and events, I simply think that SQL Sentry does it the best by displaying a dashboard that allows seeing the data in angles that no other has.
    Incentivized
    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 …
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    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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    Features
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    8.4
    102 Ratings
    Performance dashboard9.1102 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting7.996 Ratings
    Top SQL8.6102 Ratings
    Historical trend data8.6100 Ratings
    Virtualization support8.764 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.5
    (2 ratings)