SolarWinds SQL Sentry for SQL Server Performance Tuning

By: Jeremy Kadlec   |   Updated: 2022-02-11   |   Comments   |   Related: More > Performance Tuning

SolarWinds SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt. A complete SQL Server monitoring tool that’s used to monitor, diagnose, and optimize. SQL Sentry collects and retains historical data; allowing for real-time troubleshooting and investigating long-term patterns and changes

SolarWinds SQL Sentry provides full visibility into your SQL Server performance, including:

• At-a-glance view of database environment health
• Proactive alerting and response system
• Find and fix high-impact queries
• SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) monitoring
• Deadlock monitoring, with a visual look at the locked resources.
• Manage scheduled events and identify resource contention in an Outlook-style calendar
• Storage forecasting powered by predictive analytics
• Identify contributing problems in the OS and virtual environment
• Scale with your environment with the ability to monitor hundreds of instances per SQL Sentry install

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Jeremy Kadlec is a Co-Founder, Editor and Author at MSSQLTips.com with more than 300 contributions. He is also the CTO @ Edgewood Solutions and a six-time SQL Server MVP. Jeremy brings 20+ years of SQL Server DBA and Developer experience to the community after earning a bachelor’s degree from SSU and master’s from UMBC.

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