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We’re excited to announce SolarWinds® SQL Sentry® 2024.4, which is officially available. You can find it on the web site as a download as well as in your customer portal. As with all our updates, this release brings new features,...

One of the biggest challenges in IT management is ensuring critical alerts are promptly addressed. This is why we’re thrilled to unveil our latest integrations for SQL Sentry and Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) with ServiceNow and PagerDuty...

As always, we’re excited about what we’re working on for SQL Sentry! Your comments and feedback are vital. They help ensure our product efforts align with the problems you need to solve. Please feel free to ask us anything about our plans...

In part one, I covered step one: Narrow Your Focus. Now, let's dive into step two. Note: The following section discusses troubleshooting but skips many steps in our recommended methodology. If you’ve never performed troubleshooting or perf...

Anyone who’s spent much time on a PC has inevitably encountered a situation where they have to kill an errant app or find out which process has suddenly pegged the CPU and Disk at 100%. Whenever this happens, most of us know to invoke Task Mana...

We're thrilled to unveil the latest release of Plan Explorer, packed with new features and enhancements to streamline your SQL Server performance analysis. Plan Explorer is a query optimization tool for SQL Server with index analysis, query perfo...

One of the most common reasons our customers customize the SQL Server Waits Chart is to break down the Other category into something more specific.    Up until SQL Sentry 8.4, the SQL Server Waits chart presented waits in fixed...

The new SQL Sentry 2023.4 focuses on enhancing your database management experience and delivering more value to customers. This update continues the work started in Q2, with improvements aimed at making the Portal more user-friendly and reducing the ...

We’re pleased to announce the release of SolarWinds® SQL Sentry® 2023.4 is available on the SolarWinds website and in your customer portal.    As with all versions, there are several updates, including bug fixes, code refactor...

2020 may have been a year to forget for a lot of us, but it did bring us one amazing thing:  The SentryOne Portal.  Now branded SQL Sentry Portal, this was an evolution of the web front-end for SolarWinds SQL Sentry.  Suril Jasani put...

We’re pleased to announce the release of SolarWinds® SQL Sentry® 2023.3 is available on the SolarWinds website and in your customer portal.   As with all versions, there are several updates, including bug fixes, code refactori...

We are delighted to announce our new public-facing demo site for SQL Sentry is now live.   SolarWinds® SQL Sentry® helps empower Microsoft Data Professionals to achieve breakthrough performance across physical, virtual, and cloud...

Since the acquisition of SentryOne by SolarWinds, a lot of development work has gone into SQL Sentry ® . SQL Sentry is well known in the SQL Server community as a popular monitoring tool for DBAs. With each release, we aim to continue empowering ...

We're pleased to announce the SQL Sentry® Early Access Program, a new program that gives our customers and business partners a chance to use and test new product features in the development cycle. This program provides a preview of features...

When SQL Sentry is first deployed and begins to alert on the conditions that are shipped with the product, you can get a lot alert emails that can be at times overwhelming.  This short post is all about tuning those noisy alert conditions.&nbsp...

I find it amazing how much opportunity and flexibility cloud environments are creating for organizations of all sizes. I’m seeing more and more companies experimenting with open-source software (OSS) relational database systems, which years ag...

As organizations adopt cloud technologies and modernize their applications, the data they generate and ingest often grows exponentially, leaving them with difficult choices for storing and using this data. Customers are beginning to explore moving aw...

You finally got approval for SQL® Sentry, and it’s purchased and installed. Now begins the arduous task of manually adding all the targets to be monitored. If you are in a medium to large shop, this can be hundreds to thousands of servers....

One of my favorite consulting questions to ask when dealing with a scalability problem is, “If you could change the system design with the knowledge you have today, what would/wouldn’t you change and why?” Sometimes it’s best ...

At a previous DBA gig before joining SolarWinds, I investigated why TempDB grew so large on my production servers. I found that our main production databases were using Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI). This isolation level ch...

Having the ability to set up your monitoring tool to enable polling for multiple clients is essential for managed service providers (MSPs). In this first of two blogs, we’ll look at how SolarWinds SQL Sentry can be deployed in a multi-tenant way and why SQL Sentry provides best-in-class tools for monitoring the Microsoft data platform.

When I first became a dad in the early 1990s, there were few things in this world I enjoyed more than reading to my kids. Naturally, Dr. Seuss and Curious George were a big part of that, but so were a lot of timeless fables, parables, and fairy tale...

As a customer success engineer, I hear directly from customers about what issues they need help solving with SolarWinds SQL Sentry. This insight first motivated me to create posts for the SQL Sentry Tips & Tricks series, which explains how to get...

How do you know your SQL Server system is running well? Is it the simple method of noting no one is complaining? (Sadly, in many businesses, this is exactly how it's done.) The fact is, if you're not monitoring SQL Server performance, you do...

Ideally, database queries use the fewest possible resources: time, memory, bandwidth, etc. Lower resource consumption maps to better query performance. To find relevant data in a table, a database query relies on lookup operations, and a table index ...