SQLTriage · free Community Edition

One finding.
Two conversations.

SQLTriage runs 500+ checks across your SQL Server and writes it up two ways — a DBA handoff with the fixes, and a board-ready governance view. One assessment, two audiences.

The diagnostic work has been free for years — sp_Blitz, Erik Darling, Ola Hallengren, dbatools. SQLTriage is the governance translation layer on top: compliance mappings, risk scoring, and a summary a board can act on.

Get it free on GitHub See a sample report
500+checks per assessment
10compliance frameworks mapped
Read-onlyno writes, no production impact
Freeall checks unlocked, open source
Why two write-ups

The DBA and the board never read the same report.

A backup gap reads as "restore-test this" to a DBA and "we can't prove our data is recoverable" to an auditor. SQLTriage produces both reports from one scan.

The DBA voice

What it is, why it matters, and the T-SQL to fix it. Written for the person with their hands on the server.

The governance voice

What the finding means to the business: the compliance framework it maps to, and the risk level it carries. Written for the person who answers to the board.

What it produces

A graded report, not a wall of red.

Every estate gets one governance score on a Bronze→Platinum scale, the top findings ranked by severity, each mapped to the framework it satisfies, and a remediation plan with effort against it. The kind of thing that walks into a board meeting and survives it.

Sample SQLTriage governance report — Silver 63/100, top findings mapped to compliance frameworks
What's inside

The engine behind every assessment we run.

500+ checks

Backups, recoverability, security, access, patching, configuration, performance and licensing — well past the usual scripts.

10 compliance frameworks

Every finding cross-referenced to the controls it satisfies — CIS, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA and more.

Bronze → Platinum score

One governance number a board can act on, with a clear path from where you are to where you need to be.

Gated, reversible auto-fix

Config-level fixes apply through a gated, reversible, audited path — with your approval, never a surprise, with rollback if a check fails. We are expanding what is safe to auto-fix.

Built on the community's work

SQLTriage doesn't reinvent the diagnostics.

These are the diagnostic layer the SQL Server community has given away for years. SQLTriage stands on them and adds the governance translation — every source attributed, in the tool and in every report.

Brent Ozar's First Responder Kit

sp_Blitz and friends have surfaced findings like these for years, for free. SQLTriage imports sp_Blitz output directly.

Erik Darling's tools

Catch performance problems that would take hours to find by hand.

Ola Hallengren's maintenance

Running on more SQL Server estates than anyone can count.

dbatools

Made DBA automation reachable for people who would never have got there otherwise.

Community Edition

Free. All checks. No licence key.

Every check is unlocked. There's no paid tier and no upsell inside the tool. The framework is open source — inspect it, run it air-gapped, send a pull request. Check corrections come in as GitHub issues, with credit, and we fold the accepted ones into the curated set.

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# SQLTriage --health-check --read-only
Scanning estate …
✓ 500+ checks run · 10 frameworks mapped
! 3 critical · backups untested, sa enabled, no DR
~ licensing: est. 20–40% recoverable · config fixes gated for safe apply
report → Bronze…Platinum · evidence → audit/
Where the tool meets the practice

The tool is free. The hard problems are where we come in.

SQLTriage finds what's wrong and tells you what it costs. Most of it you can fix yourself with the report in hand. When the report surfaces something that needs a human in the room — a stalled migration, a licensing liability, a recovery that has to work first time — that's sqldba, the SQL Server practice behind the tool. Run the engine first. Bring us in if you need to.

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