Using SentryOne Monitor

Overview & Navigation

SentryOne Monitor is accessed through a browser at monitor.sentryone.com.

When you first log into SentryOne Monitor, the home view displays the overall health of the monitored environment.

SentryOne Monitor Default Home View

Option	Description
1. Navigation bar	Options for products, date selector, providing feedback, accessing documentation, and user profile information. Full details are provided under the Navigation Bar section below.
2. Sidebar	The sidebar has areas for feature navigation (Health, Top SQL, Alerts, and Dashboards) and the monitored targets. Full details are provided under the Sidebar section below.
3. Health Score	Health Score shows a summary of overall health scores for the monitored environment. Alerts by Severity breaks them into Critical, High, Medium, or Low (with a count for the number of alerts in each severity category). Alerts by Tag breaks them into categories such as Network, CPU, Memory, Disk, or Other (with a count for the number of alerts in each tag).
4. Alerts	A table of the top 10 most recent alerts that have been triggered across the monitored environment.

This is the default view for the navigation bar:

SentryOne Monitor Navigation Bar

Option	Description
1. Sidebar toggle	The bars (or hamburger) button toggles the visibility of the left sidebar (the feature navigation and targets information)
2. SentryOne logo	Selecting the SentryOne logo returns you to the home view.
3. Product drop-down	The SentryOne product drop-down allows you to switch between Monitor, Test, and Document. Each product has their own licensing requirements.
4. Date Selector	This is disabled on the default home view. On other views, such as Dashboards, it allows you to select a time frame for which to display data on the view: Note: Use to pause live data, to jump to current data, and to view live data where applicable.
5. Feedback	Select the feedback button to submit ideas about any issues, features you'd like to see, or suggested changes.
6. Documentation	Select the documentation button to open the Monitor documentation in SentryOne Docs.
7. Profile	Select the user profile button to change your password or log out of Monitor.

The sidebar has four main areas:

Option	Description
1. Feature navigation	Health displays information about events and their severity or tag for a variety of views, such as all server, targets, or groups. Top SQL provides a unified view of collected SQL statements for the monitored environment. Alerts displays a log of alerts that have been triggered in your environment as well as some configuration options for email. Dashboards contains the performance charts for the monitored target or instance, and allows you to create customized dashboards.
2. Target filter (by name)	Start typing a target name in the filter to get to a filtered list of targets or a specific target.
3. Target filter (by type)	Choose All SQL Servers or All Windows Servers to get a health overview of those target types.
4. Targets	Targets provides a list of all targets in your monitored environment.