Using SentryOne Monitor & Portal

Overview & Navigation

• SentryOne Monitor is accessed through a browser at monitor.sentryone.com.
• SentryOne Portal is a self-hosted feature for SQL Sentry which has a similar UI experience. See the Getting Started with SentryOne Portal article for information on accessing it.

Default Home View

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

Navigation Bar

This is the default view for the navigation bar:

Option	Description
1. Sidebar toggle	The bars (or hamburger) button toggles the visibility of the left sidebar (the overview options and targets information)
2. SentryOne logo	Selecting the SentryOne logo returns you to the home (Health Overview) view.
3. Product drop-down	The SentryOne product drop-down allows you to switch between Monitor, Test, and Document. Note:  Each product has their own licensing requirements.
4. Date Selector	This is disabled on the default home view due to the nature of the health score calculation. 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.

Sidebar

The sidebar has five main areas:

Sidebar Example

Option Description 1. Overview Options Health displays information about events and their severity or tag for a variety of views, such as all server, targets, or groups. Alerts displays a log of alerts that have been triggered in your environment as well as some configuration options for email. 2. Targets Filtering Options Start typing a target name in the filter to get to a filtered list of targets or a specific target. Use the Show Hierarchy switch to toggle the list of targets between an alphabetically ordered flat list and a list grouped by sites. Note:  The target filtering option only appears when there are 5 or more targets. 3. Targets Targets provides a list of all targets in your monitored environment. 4. Unwatched Servers Unwatched servers are targets that are not currently being monitored by SentryOne. See the Unwatched Servers section below for more details. 5. Version The current version of SentryOne Monitor published to monitor.sentryone.com (or installed for SentryOne Portal). See the Release Notes article for more details.

Unwatched Servers

In SentryOne Portal, the bottom of the sidebar contains a group for Unwatched Servers (similar to Inventory view). Unwatched servers are not currently being monitored by SentryOne. Use the SentryOne client to watch a target (you may need to purchase additional licenses).

Unwatched Servers in sidebar

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:

1. Health
2. Dashboards
   • Dashboards has a drop-down menu to make additional selections. Performance Analysis is the default dashboard view. Any dashboards listed below Performance Analysis are Custom Dashboards. An option to add a new custom dashboard is also available from this menu.
3. Top SQL
4. Blocking (SentryOne Portal only)
5. Deadlocks (SentryOne Portal only)

Distributed Databases

If you are using SentryOne Portal for SQL Sentry and have multiple SentryOne databases, you can configure your portal to display information for all your SentryOne databases through a single service. See the Distributed Databases article for more information.