Recently Released in SQL Sentry
- View SSAS MDX and Tabular instances in Portal, providing a consistent performance view without switching to the desktop client.
- Support for Azure Entra password authentication for monitoring SQL Server targets, including Azure SQL Managed Instances.
- Export Portal grid data to a csv file, either as a complete dataset or as currently displayed.
- New Portal experience, featuring a responsive interface, improved information delivery using drawers, dark vs light mode, and more.
- Addition of Data Loss metrics for Availability Groups.
- Show contained availability groups (CAG) jobs on the event calendar.
- OAuth 2.0 support to send email to Microsoft Exchange Online.
- Leverage SolarWinds AI in the AI Query Assist feature, providing query rewrite suggestions to optimize the query’s performance.
- 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.
What We’re Working On
- Target-based Licensing, allowing you to explicitly choose which targets are licensed. This will enable the AI Query Assist feature to be used in SQL Sentry installs that have a combination of DBSH and legacy licenses.
- AI “copilot” for an assistive experience, allowing users to ask natural language questions to find, interpret and resolve performance issues.
- Username/password authentication, allowing guest users and users in untrusted domains to use SQL Sentry.
- Running Queries option to show idle sessions, allowing any user session to be killed. This supports idle root blocker use cases, which users may want to kill.
- Improved formatting for SQL Sentry alerts.
- Portal timeout for idle web sessions.
- Smooth chart refresh in Portal, where charts update without a full web page refresh.
- Microsoft Entra Service Principal & Managed Identity authentication.
- 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.
- Alerts notifications (via Platform Connect) to SolarWinds' products: SquadCast and Service Desk
- Portal enhancements, including features that currently live only in the desktop client, such as:
- Calendar
- Distributed AGs
- Portal Config Utility
- Settings
- etc.
** 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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