Redgate Monitor vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Redgate Monitor

32 Reviews and Ratings

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

229 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Redgate Monitor	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Redgate’s SQL Monitor helps teams looking after SQL servers be more proactive. SQL Monitor enables monitoring environments custom to the user’s SQL server to recognize issues before they impact users. It supports monitoring on-premises and cloud-based servers from a single interface.	$1,164 per year per server
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer	Score5.5 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning. What can you monitor with DPA? Oracle Oracle Exadata Oracle EBS Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database Managed Instance MySQL DB2 SAP ASE Aurora MariaDB DPA monitors physical, virtual,…	N/A

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Pricing Offerings
Redgate Monitor	SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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All prices are per server and include one year’s support and upgrades.

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	Redgate Monitor	SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Considered Both Products	Redgate Verified User Chose Redgate Monitor Redgate SQL Monitor is a lot cheaper than SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer. I prefer the SolarWinds' design and that it offers integration with other SolarWinds products we already use. SolarWinds supports more than SQL servers (Oracle, MySQL, Maria DB, IBM DB2) and the … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Taylor Director in Information Technology at Jarrin Consultancy Ltd. (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Redgate Monitor I personally prefer SQL Sentry due to the flexibility in the custom metrics/monitoring but this is still a great product!! Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Dave Cheng Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Interdev Technologies Inc. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Interface, presentation, wait time... We are more concerned with improving query performance than hardware/resource usage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer I'm used to Oracle Enterprise Manager and it is one of best for Oracle Enterprise Database. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer I have used Spotlight (for Oracle on RAC) but it has been several years. The dashboard was crisp, clean, and intuitive, but the tool had a significant overhead. However, no competitor made a tool that met our needs at the time. I have also used Idera's SQL Diagnostic Manager in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer At the time, we found SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to be easier to setup and to have a richer feature set than Redgate SQL Monitor, plus, from what I remember, the DPA pricing worked better for us over the course of a year. We're very happy with all the features DPA … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer At the time of evaluation, this product was similar in terms of cost but DPA was far better to access query performance issues which were the most important aspect for us. Redgate at the time was heavier on resource monitoring which was less important at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Brano Pajer Solutions Architect in Research & Development at InfoSoft NI Ltd (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer It was the only software that was able to reliably itself identify for us the SPs that have taken a long run time. The other tools were unable to identify this for us. So we have discontinued using them. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Saedi SENIOR SQL SERVER DBA / DATAWAREHOUSE DEVELOPER in Information Technology at Nortek (Machinery, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Overall DPA is the best tool that I have used because of its simple interface and ability to dig in within a few clicks to see the root of a performance issue, but Idera and SQL Sentry have some areas where they are better than DPA, such as blocking and deadlocks. I also feel … Incentivized Helpful? Johnny Garcia Sr. Database Administrator in Information Technology at CyberCoders (Staffing and Recruiting, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer DPA was the best bang for the buck since we already had Orion monitoring. So being able to integrate was a huge factor. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Redgate Monitor	SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (5 ratings)	8.9 (113 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (4 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.3 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)