Azure SQL Performance Monitoring Tool
Monitor, analyze, and optimize Azure SQL performance.
Monitor Azure SQL Database
Whether you're using Microsoft Azure SQL Database for your software as a service (SaaS) business, enterprise production, or development and testing, under- or over-provisioning resources can mean either a poor user experience or wasted budget.
SolarWinds® SQL Sentry® helps you monitor performance metrics—including database transaction unit (DTU) usage—and notifies you of events occurring on your system.
SQL Sentry gives you the ability to distinguish consistent performance patterns from anomalies, which is critical to ensuring your data platform delivers optimal performance for end users.
Find and fix high-impact queries in Azure SQL Database
Identifying and resolving query performance bottlenecks is often a time-consuming and frustrating task, but it doesn't have to be. The Top SQL view in SQL Sentry provides the detailed information you need to easily troubleshoot query performance problems in Azure SQL Database. The Top SQL view helps you do the following:
- View top T-SQL batches, stored remote procedure calls (RPCs) , and statements for the current date range
- Easily drill into problem queries and analyze query plans with the integrated Plan Explorer®
- Quickly find top queries by client, application, database, or login
Performance management for Azure SQL Managed Instance
SQL Sentry provides visibility into Azure SQL Managed Instance performance, helping ensure monitoring continuity as you transition workloads to the cloud. Get detailed information about Azure SQL Managed Instance performance so you can find and fix problems.
- Ensure monitoring continuity as you transition on-premises database workloads to Azure SQL
- Display key SQL Server engine metrics, including wait stats, database file I/O, and memory utilization
- Provide top SQL stats, including query plans, blocking, and deadlocks
- Display index management information—including index usage and fragmentation levels—so you can perform index maintenance operations
- Simplify your cloud migration by covering each Azure SQL instance with one SQL Sentry license—as you move SQL Server instances to Managed Instance, you can shift licenses accordingly
Optimize Azure SQL Database
When you pay for the data system resources you use, overestimating usage and under-provisioning it aren’t viable options. SQL Sentry helps you optimize performance by providing metrics you can use to better forecast resource allocation based on use.
Using SQL Sentry to monitor Azure SQL Database gives you the ability to see transactions per second, diagnose performance problems with Top SQL, and optimize the data platform with Plan Explorer. You can also visualize how specific activities might impact others and jump to run-time performance graphs, which show specific query performance trends and activity details.
Hybrid Deployment Options
As more databases are deployed in the cloud, you need a solution built to allow you to seamlessly monitor on-premises and cloud workloads.
SQL Sentry gives you everything you need to keep Azure SQL Database running at peak performance. Advanced scalability options ensure we can grow with you as your environment expands.
SQL Sentry has flexible deployment options and can be deployed in your on-premises data center, from the Azure marketplace, or on a cloud VM.
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Frequently asked questions
How does SQL Sentry find issues impacting Azure SQL Database performance?
Using big data analytics, SQL Sentry provides valuable insights into your database and system performance, helping you focus your troubleshooting efforts. The analytics platform uses advanced techniques such as regression analysis and queueing theory to deliver insight into the relationship between queries and system resources. Before and after comparisons, newly introduced queries, and tag functionality also help speed problem resolution.
How does SQL Sentry find issues impacting Azure SQL Database performance?
Using big data analytics, SQL Sentry provides valuable insights into your database and system performance, helping you focus your troubleshooting efforts. The analytics platform uses advanced techniques such as regression analysis and queueing theory to deliver insight into the relationship between queries and system resources. Before and after comparisons, newly introduced queries, and tag functionality also help speed problem resolution.
Monitor Azure SQL Database in Real Time
SolarWinds SQL Sentry
Monitor changes in database performance and the most important metrics
Work on Azure SQL analysis and optimization using a SaaS tool
Easily work in DevOps groups with Azure SQL Database performance analysis views