Recently Released in SQL Sentry
- New Portal experience, featuring a responsive interface, improved information delivery using drawers, dark vs light mode, and more.
- Leverage SolarWinds AI in the AI Query Assist feature, providing query rewrite suggestions to optimize the query’s performance. Releases in 2025.2 as part of a tech preview.
- Flexible licensing. You can use the new DBSH (Database Self-Hosted, supports all DBMS targets) and DBSHDS (for Azure SQL DB) licenses on either DPA or SQL Sentry. This provides the flexibility to choose which product you want to use without trading out licenses.
- Better insight into the health of your database estate. In addition to an overall health score, you now see health for individual targets, as well as health at the site and group levels. SQL Sentry also shows a trend of health scores over time.
- Top SQL now provides wait analytics for completed queries. That is, you now see a breakdown of wait events for a given query over a chosen time frame.
- SQL Sentry’s Portal provides visibility into your AlwaysOn environment.
- Enhancing dashboarding capabilities, the Custom Templates feature allows users to design and save reusable dashboard configurations that can be applied across multiple monitored targets.
- Integrations with ServiceNow and PagerDuty for alert notifications have been simplified via SQL Sentry’s Platform Connect.
- Audit logging of Portal access.
What We’re Working On
- Expose Linux OS metrics for SQL Server running on Linux.
- Continue to improve AI Query Assist outputs by adding inputs to the prompt, such as existing indexes, table size and column cardinality.
- Support for contained availability groups (CAGs), which will show CAG jobs on the event calendar.
- Portal enhancements, including features that currently live only in the desktop client, such as:
- Running Queries
- Calendar
- Distributed AGs
- etc.
- Addition of Data Loss metrics for Availability Groups
- Easier onboarding
- Alerts notifications (via Platform Connect) to SolarWinds' products: SquadCast and Service Desk
** The order the features are listed in does not indicate priority.
** The above list indicates what we are currently working on or considering but does not guarantee when or even if these features will be delivered.
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Release Announcements
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