What is SolarWinds SQL Sentry?
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 Services (SSAS)
- SQL Server on Hyper-V or VMware VMs (including host)
- SQL Server on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- SQL Server on Amazon RDS
- SQL Server on Amazon EC2
- SQL Server on Linux
Although a SQL Sentry license can be used to monitor Azure SQL Database in a hybrid environment, dedicated licensing is available for large Azure SQL Database environments.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Performance dashboard
Dashboard displays consolidated data with drill-down capability
Category average: 9
Virtualization support
Root cause analysis for virtual platforms like VMWare or Hyper-V
Category average: 8.3
Top SQL
Details about any long-running or high impact statements
Category average: 8.6
Areas for Improvement
Historical trend data
Historical trends and anomalies for SQL tuning
Category average: 8.6
Intelligent alerting
Customizable alerts and reports indicating outlier values from baseline
Category average: 7.9
