The Agenda

John will talk about all the recent and upcoming exciting events happening at SentryOne. Get an inside look at what's happening with the company as well as our entire product line.

SentryOne Plan Explorer has become the tool of choice for tens of thousands of SQL Server professionals working to improve query performance through execution plan analysis. The upcoming release of Plan Explorer brings more of what we love, and marks the evolution of Plan Explorer into a comprehensive platform that will help us address even more performance problems, as well as prevent them in the future.

In this session, we will take a deep dive into the advanced features and options available in SentryOne’s alerting system. We will cover how to have your alerts follow a call schedule, filtering alerts to allow automated response to very specific situations, making the most of response rulesets, and crafting our own alerts with Custom Conditions. For those that already have alerting in place, we will discuss tips and tricks for reducing alert noise. We’ll conclude with a discussion of alerting best practices, and Q&A.

While SentryOne software continues to evolve with more complete and complex features, the core functionality still provides countless opportunities for monitoring, diagnosing and optimizing SQL Server. This session will be a deep dive into many of the features you may know, but aren’t using as completely as possible.

Every SQL Server instance has its own performance profile based on available resources, workload, and other factors. Yet many performance issues share root cause and performance metric patterns. In this session, we will demonstrate how to recognize these patterns and identify the root cause for 5 common performance issues using SentryOne Performance Advisor.

The SentryOne platform provides a lot of capability to monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot server performance issues. But there is a lot more that you can do to gain deeper insight on how your environment is performing. In this session, we will discuss mining additional data directly from the SentryOne repository database. Looking at how and where data is held in the repository database. Using this to then build Advisory Conditions within the SentryOne solution, or creating your own custom reports.

Get your SentryOne environment configured and organized for the best results. We will focus on installation, retention thresholds, site configuration, SentryOne Client preferences, and integration with other tools (SCOM and ticketing).

Ask us anything! Due to the interest level at past Bootcamps, we have expanded this session. Interact with the entire team to find out answers to all your questions about anything SentryOne related. This will be an open Q&A session, feedback opportunity, and chance to learn anything we don't cover in the sessions.