What are Database Monitoring Tools for Windows?

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 for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler GmbH

    Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring software solution developed by Paessler. Equipped with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with a cutting-edge monitoring engine, PRTG optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs). The solution is packed with specialized monitoring features that include flexible alerting, cluster failover solution, distributed monitoring, in-depth reporting, maps and dashboards, and more. PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure. All important technologies are supported: • SNMP: ready-to-use and custom options • WMI and Windows Performance Counters • SSH: for Linux/Unix and macOS systems • Traffic analysis using flow protocols or packet sniffing • HTTP requests • REST APIs returning XML or JSON • Ping, SQL, and many more
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    Starting Price: $2149 for PRTG 500
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    AdRem NetCrunch

    AdRem NetCrunch

    AdRem Software

    NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed.
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    Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes
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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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    AimBetter

    AimBetter

    AimBetter

    Ensure business continuity by proactively preventing and resolving outages and poor performance in core systems such as ERP, WMS, and others based on SQL Server/ Oracle. 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: Get the root cause of DB system issues in real-time, including queries, resources, and code analysis. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: Providing automatic DBA capabilities, AimBetter reduces dependency on specialized DBAs by 80% through automated analysis and actionable insights. 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: Centralized, easy-to-deploy solution suitable for businesses of all sizes. A 5-minute installation in one of the company's servers doesn't load the analyzed servers. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀: Notifies users of anomalies and potential issues before they impact users. 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽: Enables receiving alerts and taking critical actions like killing sessions from anywhere. Real-Time Problem Solving
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    Starting Price: Free
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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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    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).
    Starting Price: 0
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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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    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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    dbForge Monitor
    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

    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 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' health
    Starting Price: $1,565
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    DymaxIO

    DymaxIO

    Condusiv Technologies

    DymaxIO is fast data software. Whether on-premises or in the Cloud, DymaxIO returns 40%+ of your throughput that is being robbed due to I/O inefficiencies. It’s fast, easy, fully transparent, and automatic. Fix application slows, freezes, timeouts, slow SQL queries, reduce cloud compute costs, and more, at the source. Get your speed back now with new DymaxIO. Undelete recovers deleted files instantly with continuous data protection, eliminating time consuming restores from backup. Undelete protects local and network-share files ensuring every deleted file, or version of a file, can easily be restored. In just a few clicks, content that took hours to create is back in a moment! Fixes performance problems, such as application slows and freezes, at the source. No tuning required. See a 30%+ improvement, increasing the efficiency of your infrastructure and that of your users. Sweat your assets longer, don't overspend on expensive new hardware.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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    SQL Defrag Manager

    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

    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

    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

    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 Workload Analysis

    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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    IDERA Precise for Databases

    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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