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What are Database Monitoring Tools?
Database monitoring tools help businesses and IT teams track, analyze, and optimize the performance of their databases to ensure smooth operation, prevent downtime, and maintain data integrity. These tools typically provide features for real-time monitoring of database metrics such as query performance, response times, CPU and memory usage, and disk space utilization. Database monitoring software often includes alerting mechanisms for detecting issues such as slow queries or resource bottlenecks, as well as detailed reporting and analytics to improve database efficiency and scalability. By using these tools, organizations can proactively manage database health, troubleshoot problems, and optimize system performance. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Monitoring tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Site24x7
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.Starting Price: $9.00/month -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.Starting Price: $0 -
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Datadog
Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.Starting Price: $15.00/host/month -
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Dynatrace
Dynatrace
The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.Starting Price: $11 per month -
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SolarWinds
Quickly pinpoint performance issues with SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) while providing expert advice with tuning advisors. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning allows DBAs to proactively optimize databases before small issues become big problems. Real-time analysis with 24/7 monitoring and automated alerts provides the time an error occurred instead of just knowing it was “sometime last week.” DPA helps ease the use of more than 20 cross-platform databases in hybrid, on-premises and cloud environments. -
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Netreo
Netreo
Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.Starting Price: $5/resource/mo -
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IBM Instana
IBM
IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify. With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn. IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need. Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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dbForge Monitor
Devart
dbForge Monitor is a free solution designed to provide comprehensive information about SQL Server performance in real time. It delivers detailed statistics on all essential parameters and specific information for quick identifying and resolving problems. Key Features: - Real-time monitoring for all SQL Server activities, including currently logged users and their applications - Analytical dashboard with a rich collection of metrics - Detecting and optimizing the most expensive queries - Heavy query display, including query text and profiling information - Backup process tracing with key statistics - Detailed statistics about data input/output operations - Summary statistics for all SQL Server databases with essential metrics - Quick identification of resources that are slowing down the server The goal of tool is to provide a comprehensive overview of all servers, databases, and queries, thereby saving many hours of manual work for database specialists.Starting Price: $0 -
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SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy SQL Server and Windows.Starting Price: $1,996 per instance -
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Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate Software
SQL Monitor helps you and your team find issues – before they become problems: Alerting – Discover issues before they have an impact Diagnosis – Uncover obstacles and find root causes Performance – See what has the biggest impact on your system Overview – View your SQL Server estate at a glance Reporting – Share tailored reports about your servers' healthStarting Price: $1,565 -
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SQL Sentry
SolarWinds
Stop wasting time trying to fix SQL Server performance problems. Are you constantly fighting database performance fires, looking in vain for the root cause of SQL Server slowdowns? Without the right information, you could waste valuable time looking in the wrong places for the answers to your performance problems. You need accurate, actionable, detailed metrics to quickly identify and address database problems. With SQL Sentry, you can effectively monitor, diagnose, and optimize your entire database environment. SQL Sentry helps you get out of fire-fighting mode so you can keep your databases running continuously at peak performance. SQL Sentry gives you the level of detail you need to find and fix SQL Server performance problems. SQL Sentry is the flagship product in the SentryOne monitoring solutions set, and was built by SQL Server experts to help you save time and frustration in troubleshooting database performance problems.Starting Price: $1,628 -
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Atatus
NamLabs Technologies
NamLabs Technologies is an Indian software company that publishes a software suite called Atatus. Atatus is a SaaS software & a full stack observability platform. It provides a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Application Performance Monitoring, Real-User Monitoring/ End User Monitoring/ Browser Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs Monitoring, and API Analytics. Analyze the performance of your application for performance issues such as slow transactions, database queries, website availability, uptime, latency, response time, and throughput, much more. 24x7 customer support is guaranteed.Starting Price: $49.00/month -
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Thundra
Thundra
Thundra is a developer platform company that empowers application teams to develop, debug, test, and monitor modern microservices on the cloud. By offering everything from automated instrumentation to cloud debugging and test optimization in a single platform, Thundra eliminates the need for multiple tools for pre-production and production environmentsStarting Price: $90 per month -
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SQL Defrag Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Automatically find and fix database index fragmentation. Database administrators for SQL Server need to maintain the high availability and performance of their databases. Key areas that dramatically affect the performance of SQL Server are indexes that are fragmented and out of cluster. SQL Defrag Manager is a unique solution for defragmenting indexes for SQL Server. It automates the time-consuming process of finding fragmented indexes based on policies for the targeted databases.Starting Price: $1,196 per instance -
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SQL Doctor
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Doctor helps database administrators to tune SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competitors, it provides display health of all SQL Servers, generation of ready-to-run SQL scripts to optimize and undo optimization, limiting of analysis to specified databases, applications, and performance categories, and real-time, as-needed, and scheduled checkups.Starting Price: $500 per user -
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SQL Enterprise Job Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Enterprise Job Manager helps database administrators to simplify the monitoring and management of SQL Server agent jobs across SQL Servers in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides chaining of jobs to create automated workflows, configurable alert notifications for success and failure of jobs, automation of job scheduling, familiar calendar layout, predefined and custom filters to find specific jobs for analysis, and drill down to see alert settings, upcoming jobs, and history details.Starting Price: $796 per instance -
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SQL Inventory Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Inventory Manager helps database administrators to manage SQL Server inventory and assets in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides automatic discovery of SQL Server instances, databases, and analysis services in the network, protection against back level versions and missing security patches, confirmation that instance growth meets your license commitments, quick display of server details to determine license cost, monitor instance health, gathering of hardware, operating system, instance and database configuration details, pre-defined and customizable licensing, inventory, chargeback and health reports, and tags and filters to simplify organization of instances and databases.Starting Price: $2,556 for 10 instances -
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SQL Query Tuner
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Query Tuner helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code for SQL Server. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.Starting Price: $400 per instance -
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SQL Secure
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Secure helps database administrators to manage SQL Server security in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competition, it provides configurable data collection, customizable templates to satisfy audits for multiple regulatory guidelines, extensive security checks and audit rules, automated server registration process, and server group tagging.Starting Price: $1,036 per instance -
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SQL Workload Analysis
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Monitor and diagnose detailed database wait states and application transactions. Problematic SQL queries can severely reduce the performance of SQL Server and the business-critical applications that it supports. With the SQL Workload Analysis add-on, continuously monitor and analyze server workload, leverage the simple user interface that focuses on wait states and application performance, and troubleshoot problematic SQL code from changes made to database applications. Perform real-time analysis with continuous SQL sampling intervals. Know instantly where databases are spending time. Quickly isolate slow SQL statements and drill down for actionable advice. Investigate historical query plan trends. Utilize automatic recommendations to improve query performance.Starting Price: $400 per instance -
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DB Optimizer
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
DB Optimizer helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code across database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.Starting Price: $572 per user (workstation_ -
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DBA xPress
SolarWinds
Managing large data estates is challenging. It’s hard to track the dependencies among your databases, particularly if your data estate is constantly changing through growth or acquisitions. Common problems include difficulties understanding the differences among databases, inadequate solutions for comparing data schema, and the inability to track dependencies and connections so that you can successfully manage data, users, and security. DBA xPress simplifies managing large data estates by providing solutions for comparing data schema and browsing through database content: compare databases and synchronize schema and data within them, analyze dependencies and connections among tables, users, functions, and security policies, browse content of SQL Server databases, access the scripts for each object, and export them into an XML file. Automating repetitive tasks can save you time, reduce the risk of human error, and streamline processes.Starting Price: $325 per year -
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IDERA Precise for Databases
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Precise for Databases helps database administrators to find and fix database performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides deep database optimization, isolation of problems and causes, scalable deployment, what-if analysis for changes, and history, trending, and planning. Precise for Databases ensures that databases perform at peak efficiency. It captures, measures, and correlates performance metrics from all critical components of the system. It then detects and corrects the root cause of database and transaction performance problems before they become noticeable for databases and their related applications. Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, and SAP Sybase ASE. For each of these database platforms, the interface of Precise looks and behaves the same to minimize the learning curve. Precise for Databases samples the monitored databases once per second or more frequently, has low overhead (typically 1%). -
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Epsagon
Epsagon
Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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Togglr
Togglr
We provide business insights and expertise from our business consultants, through our core capabilities of cloud-using technology, to help your organizations make better-informed decisions for productive and profitable results. Our digital services data platform incorporates continuous intelligence that uses real-time context data to migrate, modernize and manage multi-cloud for their organization. Allows you to easily migrate physical, virtual, and cloud workloads to and from any environment with minimal risk and near-zero downtime with finely tuned automation at every stage of the process. Automatically and securely copies data Backup your all files or capture changes to one of our cloud storage data centers. Enables and manages two-speed information technology consumption, DevOps, and monitoring with cloud transparency around AWS, Google, and IBM across asset usage and costs. Certified experts across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM) and next-generation tools.Starting Price: $1,000 one-time payment
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