Best Database Monitoring Tools

Compare the Top Database Monitoring Tools as of June 2025

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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    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, best-of-breed, open source database monitoring and management solution. It helps enterprises reduce complexity and simplify management, while optimizing performance and improving the security of your business-critical database environments, no matter where they are located - on-premises or in the cloud. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible. PMM allows you to identify the issues that impact your business, fast! Our single platform simplifies management and reduces complexity. It helps you optimize your database by allowing you to easily find, fix, and prevent issues with scaling, bottlenecks and potential outages. Our innovative tools improve data security and reduce your risk of data exposure. PMM is used by thousands of organizations around the globe to manage their complex database environments.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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    Sematext Cloud

    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.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Datadog

    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.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    eG Enterprise

    eG Enterprise

    eG Innovations

    IT performance monitoring is not about monitoring CPU, memory and network resources any more. eG Enterprise makes user experience the centerpiece of your IT monitoring and management strategy. With eG Enterprise, you can measure the digital experience of your users, get deep visibility into the performance the entire application delivery stack — from code to user experience, and data center to cloud — from a single pane of glass, correlate performance across domains and pinpoint the root-cause of problems proactively. Machine learning and analytics capabilities embedded in eG Enterprise enable IT teams make intelligent decisions regarding right-sizing, optimization and planning for future growth. The result: happy users, enhanced productivity, improved IT efficiency and tangible business ROI. eG Enterprise is available for installation on-premise and as a SaaS solution. Start a free trial today.
    Starting Price: $1,000 per month
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    ScaleGrid

    ScaleGrid

    ScaleGrid

    ScaleGrid is a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform that helps you automate your time-consuming database administration tasks both in the cloud and on-premises. Easily provision, monitor, backup and scale your open source databases with high availability, advanced security, full superuser and SSH access, query analysis, and troubleshooting support to improve the performance of your deployments. Supported databases include: - MySQL - PostgreSQL - Redis™ - MongoDB® database - Greenplum™ (coming soon) The ScaleGrid platform supports both public and private clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DigitalOcean, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), VMware and OpenStack. Used by thousands of developers, startups, and enterprise customers including Atlassian, Meteor, and Accenture, ScaleGrid handles all your database operations at any scale so you can focus on your application performance.
    Starting Price: $8 per month
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    SQL Planner

    SQL Planner

    SQL Planner

    Access SQL Planner application from any device, anywhere and manage your SQL server (Automation of SQL health analysis, monitoring, alerts, backup and validation, index de-fragmentation, stats maintenance, automation) with ease. SQL Planner can be installed on your local machine having Microsoft windows operating system, and provide SQL server credential (ensure it has Server view state permission or higher privilege, preferably Sysadmin) which has to be monitored or analyzed for health. SQL Planner starts collecting performance and server usage data very efficiently, ensuring your SQL runs smoothly, it also alerts you by email on several critical factor when encountered such as continuous high CPU, RAM, disk usage, database or drive space usage etc. SQL Planner instance can be used from browser (Firefox Mozilla preferred).
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    SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
    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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    InsightCat

    InsightCat

    InsightCat

    Full-stack monitoring platform for your software and hardware. InsightCat is a full-stack infrastructure monitoring solution to search, analyze, and aggregate system metrics in one place. The solution was developed to be intuitive and cover the most vital requests of DevOps, System administrators, SecOps, and IT specialists related to infrastructure monitoring, security, log management, etc. The solution allows you to perform: Infrastructure monitoring. Detect anomalies within your infrastructure to eliminate them as quickly as possible and prevent the system from repeating similar issues. Synthetic monitoring. Monitor your web services around the clock and be aware in advance of the critical downtimes if they occur. Log management. Work with your log data and keep up with the root cause of any software error, within one place. Smart alerting and escalation. Set up the flexible alerting system to keep the team informed if any spikes, errors or unordinary behavior.
    Starting Price: $1.99
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    Netreo

    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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    Avantra

    Avantra

    Avantra

    With nearly 20 years experience helping Enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) globally to better manage their SAP and cloud landscapes, we know what it takes to deliver better service, productivity, innovation and compliance to businesses who rely on SAP. Founded in Switzerland with global presence in UK, USA, Germany and Australia we are well placed to support the largest SAP customers and Managed Service Providers.
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    Foglight

    Foglight

    Quest Software

    Optimize performance across your databases and virtual infrastructure. Go beyond basic performance monitoring with Foglight® to quickly identify and resolve performance issues across your physical, virtual and cloud environments. Foglight products easily integrate with your existing tools, so you can monitor and analyze data from almost any source across your infrastructure and view it through a single interface. And with our fully customizable dashboards, you’re able to zero in on what matters most to your organization and view data in ways that are relevant to your business, giving you the database visibility you need while boosting overall productivity. With Foglight, you’re able to proactively detect, monitor, manage and resolve performance issues before they impact the business.
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    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

    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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    Nagios XI

    Nagios XI

    Nagios Enterprises, LLC

    Provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party addons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house applications, services, and systems. Provides a central view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. Powerful dashboards provide at-a-glance access to powerful monitoring information and third-party data. Views provide users with quick access to the information they find most useful. Automated, integrated trending and capacity planning graphs allow organizations to plan for infrastructure upgrades before outdated systems catch them by surprise. Alerts are sent to IT staff, business stakeholders, and end-users via email or mobile text messages, providing them with outage details so they can start resolving issues immediately.
    Starting Price: $1995.00/one-time
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    Epsagon

    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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    ExtraHop RevealX

    ExtraHop RevealX

    ExtraHop Networks

    Fight advanced threats with a covert defense. ExtraHop eliminates blindspots and detects threats that other tools miss. ExtraHop gives you the perspective you need to understand your hybrid attack surface from the inside out. Our industry-leading network detection and response platform is purpose-built to help you rise above the noise of alerts, silos, and runaway technology so you can secure your future in the cloud.
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