Best Database Monitoring Tools for SQL Server
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This a list of Database Monitoring tools that integrate with SQL Server. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with SQL Server. View the products that work with SQL Server in the table below.
What are Database Monitoring Tools for SQL Server?
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 SQL Server currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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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.Starting Price: €90/month -
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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 SolvingStarting Price: Free -
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New Relic
New Relic
There are an estimated 25 million engineers in the world across dozens of distinct functions. As every company becomes a software company, engineers are using New Relic to gather real-time insights and trending data about the performance of their software so they can be more resilient and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only New Relic provides an all-in-one platform that is built and sold as a unified experience. With New Relic, customers get access to a secure telemetry cloud for all metrics, events, logs, and traces; powerful full-stack analysis tools; and simple, transparent usage-based pricing with only 2 key metrics. New Relic has also curated one of the industry’s largest ecosystems of open source integrations, making it easy for every engineer to get started with observability and use New Relic alongside their other favorite applications.Starting Price: Free -
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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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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 Compliance Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Compliance Manager helps database administrators to monitor, audit, and alert on SQL Server user activity and data changes. Unlike its competition, it provides quick configuration of audit settings, a broad list of regulatory guideline templates for audit settings and reports, before and after data values for both regulatory compliance and forensic data investigations, differentiation of data access and between regular and privileged users and applications, easy specification of and reporting on sensitive data columns access and changes, and extensive customization of audit settings for databases and servers.Starting Price: $3,036.00 per instance -
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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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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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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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Happy Apps
HappyApps
Setup and monitor a wide variety of checks within seconds that include website, ping, socket, databases, messaging queues, application servers, to custom checks. Setup alerts (SMS & Email) with ease. Unique noise reduction technology dramatically cuts unnecessary alerts by consolidating related incidents, muting systems with known issues, and minimizing false positives. Get status and real-time visibility across your Apps and Business Services. Clearly displays open incidents and issues that require your attention. Group and monitor multiple Apps and IT systems that include Databases, web servers, App servers, and messaging queues as a single App. Happy Apps delivers an overall status for the App along with status for each individual member of the group. Users also get to view dependency maps between individual IT systems and how they impact other Apps.Starting Price: $9.95 per month -
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EverSQL
EverSQL
EverSQL is the fastest way to optimize your PostgreSQL & MySQL databases automatically. It's used by over 100,000 engineers as a PostgreSQL & MySQL optimizer, to optimize SQL queries. Our customers report their queries are 25X faster on average, just minutes after getting started. Save your team 140 weekly hours on average by optimizing your SQL queries online for free. EverSQL is 100% non-intrusive, and doesn't access any of your databases' sensitive data. Choose your database type, the platform, and submit a query for optimization. Then, install the performance sensor for ongoing performance insights. Smart AI-based algorithms will optimize your PostgreSQL and MySQL queries by automatically re-writing and indexing them. EverSQL will tell you exactly what changed and how the magic works. EverSQL's non-intrusive sensor will monitor your PostgreSQL and MySQL databases performance on an ongoing basis, generate optimization insights that are quick and easy to understand and implement.Starting Price: $129 per month -
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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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DBmarlin
DBmarlin
DBmarlin includes an AI assistant which we call DBmarlin AI Co-pilot. It is available from any screen with a single click, which reveals a slide out panel where you can ask any question you like. We also have "Send to DBmarlin Co-pilot" buttons in various places throughout the product where you can get automatic recommendations for things such as wait events and how to reduce them, or for SQL Statements and how to tune them with recommendations including indexes, query rewrites, partitioning, materialized views, database parameter tuning and more. AI assistant provides automatic recommendations for database and SQL statement optimisation. The slide-out panel lets you access DBmarlin AI Co-pilot from any screen within the product. With a single click, DBmarlin AI Co-pilot can take your SQL Text and Execution Plan and within 30 seconds return a list of recommendations such as indexes (including the CREATE INDEX statement) and other suggestions.Starting Price: $1100 per year -
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dbWatch Control Center
dbWatch
dbWatch Control Center is a comprehensive database farm monitoring and management solution that enables fast and efficient monitoring and management of databases, streamlining workflows, automating actions, and creating custom reports within a single platform. It supports monitoring on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments. Key features include customizable dashboards, multi-site and hybrid cloud support, scalability, and security. It offers modules for onboarding, architecture, dashboards, integrations, management, monitoring, reports, secure access, automated maintenance, security and compliance, and SQL performance. Users can monitor all database instances in a single pane of glass, manage databases across all platforms from a single interface, and automate routine monitoring and maintenance tasks.Starting Price: $120 per month -
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Visual KPI
Transpara
Real-time operations monitoring and data visualization, including KPIs, dashboards, trends, analytics, hierarchy and alerts. Aggregates all of your data sources (industrial, IoT, business, external, etc.) on the fly without moving the data, and displays it in real-time with obvious context on any device. -
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Centreon
Centreon
Centreon is a global provider of business-aware IT monitoring for always-on operations and performance excellence. The company’s holistic, AIOps-ready platform is designed for today’s complex, distributed hybrid cloud infrastructures. Centreon monitors the complete IT Infrastructure from Cloud-to-Edge for a clear and comprehensive view. Centreon removes blind spots, monitoring all equipment, middleware and applications that are part of modern IT workflows, from on-premise legacy assets to private and public cloud environments, all the way to the edge of the network, where smart devices and customers combine to create business value. Centreon is constantly current, able to support the most dynamic environments. With auto-discovery capabilities it can keep track of Software-Defined Network (SDN) elements, AWS or Azure cloud assets, Wi-Fi access points or any other component of today’s agile IT infrastructure. -
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Insight PISO Manager
Insight Technology
Insight PISO is a database audit product that enhances database security. Addressing threats such as unauthorized access from an audit perspective and protecting the company's critical information assets without affecting the database. Acquire and conserve the logs available as audit trails to support various legal regulations such as the SOX Act and strengthen internal controls. Direct memory access, is a proprietary technology that directly monitors memory space. Therefore, obtain and maintain access logs at low load. Does not degrade database performance. Supports major databases such as Oracle Database, Microsoft SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Symfoware. Amazon All RDS DB engines can also manage audit information from the same Insight PISO Manager. Insight PISO implements the mining search function as a search and extraction function for access logs. You can search the recorded access logs under set conditions such as time of day, access users, and output them in various formats.
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