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 into SQL Sentry Portal, the home view displays the overall health of the monitored environment.
| Option | Description |
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| 1. Navigation bar | Options for expanding the sidebar, selecting your alert timeframe, providing feedback, accessing documentation, and accessing user profile information. Full details are provided under the Navigation Bar section below. |
| 2. Sidebar | The sidebar has areas for overview options (Health Overview & Alerts) and the monitored Targets. Full details are provided under the Sidebar section below. |
| 3. Health Overview | Health Overview is the default view when opening SQL Sentry Portal.
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| 4. Alerts | A table of the most recent alerts that have been triggered across the monitored environment. |
Navigation Bar
This is the default view for the navigation bar:
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| 1. Sidebar toggle | The bars (or hamburger) button toggles the visibility of the left sidebar (the overview options and targets information) | ||||||||
| 2. SolarWinds SQL Sentry logo | Selecting the SQL Sentry logo returns you to the home (Health Overview) view. | ||||||||
| 3. Time Slicer | The Time Slicer is available on the Health Overview at the Global (All Targets) and individual Target levels. The Time Slicer allows you to organize the alerting events displayed on the Health Overview by the time frame in which they occurred (within the last 24 hour interval). Display events that occurred in the last 24 hours (the default setting) or narrow the displayed events to the last few hours, or minutes to identify more recent issues. The following time frames can be selected:
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| 4. Feedback | Select the feedback button to submit ideas about any issues, features you'd like to see, or suggested changes. | ||||||||
| 5. Documentation | Select the documentation button to open the Monitor documentation in SentryOne Docs. | ||||||||
| 6. Permissions | Select the Permissions button to manage permissions in SQL Sentry Portal. |
Sidebar
The sidebar has five main areas:
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Unwatched Servers
Applies to the following products and features: The on-premises SQL Sentry Portal feature for SQL Sentry. See the Getting Started with SQL Sentry Portal article for more details.
In SQL Sentry Portal, the bottom of the sidebar contains a group for Unwatched Servers (similar to Inventory view). Unwatched servers are not currently being monitored by SQL Sentry. 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.
Error Details
The Error Details chart displays a detailed log for the chart that failed to load properly. Select Error Details to display the log information. 
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.
Feature Menu
The following options are available for individual targets:
- Health
- Performance
- Performance Analysis is available in SQL Sentry Portal for VMware targets with Version 2022.3.
- Storage
- Top SQL
- Blocking (SQL Sentry Portal only)
- Deadlocks (SQL Sentry Portal only)
- TempDB (SQL Sentry Portal only)
Distributed Databases
Applies to the following products and features: The on-premises SQL Sentry Portal feature for SQL Sentry. See the Getting Started with SQL Sentry Portal article for more details.
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.
