Using SQL Sentry Portal
Overview & Navigation
SQL Sentry Portal is a self-hosted feature for SQL Sentry which has a similar UI experience. See the Getting Started with SQL Sentry Portal article for information on accessing it.
Default Home View
When you first log in to SQL Sentry Portal, the home view displays the overall health of the monitored environment.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Navigation bar | Options for navigating between Inventory, Dashboards, and User Management pages. A multi-tenant drop-down selector that lets you jump between your tenants. Click the vertical ellipsis options menu to see options for a dark/light mode toggle, documentation link, SolarWinds support link, feature request link, and the SQL Sentry Portal version number. Full details are provided under the Navigation Bar section below. |
| 2. Sidebar | The Inventory sidebar has areas for monitored Targets and a search bar filtering specific targets. Full details are provided under the Sidebar section below. |
| 3. Health Overview |
Health Overview is the default view when opening SQL Sentry Portal.
See Health for more information. |
| 4. Alerts |
A table of the most recent alerts that have been triggered across the monitored environment. See Alerts for more information. |
Navigation Bar
This is the default view for the navigation bar:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Inventory | The Inventory view is the default screen that displays health and alerts data for all of your monitored targets in SQL Sentry Portal. From the Health Overview, you can drill down into individual group or target views. |
| 2. Dashboards | Click Dashboards to view, create, and edit all of your existing dashboards, custom charts, and templates in SQL Sentry Portal. See Custom Charts for more information. |
| 3. User Management | Click User Management to manage permissions in SQL Sentry Portal. |
| 4. Platform Connect | Click Platform Connect to open Platform Connect configuration options. Platform Connect for SQL Sentry Portal integrates SQL Sentry Portal with SolarWinds Observability to access SolarWinds Platform Cloud Notification Services. See Platform Connect. |
| 5. SQL Sentry Tenant drop-down | If you have a multi-tentant SQL Sentry environment, use the tenant drop-down to change the selected tenant. |
| 6. Documentation |
Click the vertical ellipsis button to open expanded menu options:
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Sidebar
The sidebarcontains the following.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Targets Filtering Options |
Start typing a target name in the filter to get to a filtered list of targets or a specific target. Note: The target filtering option only appears when there are five or more targets. |
| 2. Targets |
Targets provides a list of all targets in your monitored environment. Unwatched Servers are displayed in light grey in the target list. Unwatched servers are targets that are not currently being monitored by SQL Sentry. See the Unwatched Servers section below for more details. |
Unwatched Servers
Unwatched servers are not currently being monitored by SQL Sentry. Unwatched servers are greyed out in the side navigation menu. Use the SQL Sentry client to watch a target (you may need to purchase additional licenses).
Note: A banner appears an individual unwatched targets across the SQL Sentry Portal views.
Feature Menu
When you select a target from the sidebar, the target Health view opens by default. From a target view like Health, the Navigation Bar toggles to a feature menu.
The following options are available for individual targets:
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Performance Analysis is available in SQL Sentry Portal for VMware targets.
Distributed Databases
If you are using SQL Sentry Portal for SQL Sentry and have multiple SQL Sentry databases, you can configure your portal to display information for all your SQL Sentry databases through a single service. See the Distributed Databases article for more information.