BizTalk360 vs. IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager

In my experience, BizTalk360 was very helpful when exchanging and directing a Message to Multiple Endpoints including multiple educational platforms. I did not observe any major issues in the latency.

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If you have several SQL servers and don't have a lot of time or resources to constantly monitor them, SQLdm will be very helpful. For one or two servers, it might be overkill. All of our servers are virtual, so having a tool that can monitor host metrics as well as guest metrics is a plus as well.

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• Information flows.
• Mapping inputs and outputs.
• Connecting various subsystems.

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• SQLdm does a good job of providing information at a high level, but also allows me to drill down to specific queries and events if needed. I don't always need to sift through tons of details to get the information I need. It also gives a very wide range of information from SQL specific metrics, to OS metrics, to VM metrics, all the way up to host server metrics.
• I like how the alert and notification system can be customized. For example, if you know a certain server regularly has long-running queries, you can adjust the alert to not fire unless a query has been running for 30 minutes while the rest of the servers fire after 30 seconds. That is very helpful in not being bombarded at dinner with alerts from a server similar to, "I've been at 90% cpu for 26 milliseconds!!!!!!!...and now it's back down to 30%" Good information to know, but not something you need to literally lose sleep over.
• I like how you can configure different servers to be monitored differently. For example, you can have a group of servers called DEVELOPMENT that you can turn on heavier monitoring on so you can test how changes in applications might affect the SQL environment, but in the PRODUCTION group, you may only want to enable the heavier analysis and logging when performance issues are actively being reported.

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• It can take some time to figure out the best way to set up notifications.
• At times, it may seem like the dashboard is running slowly, however, this is largely down to the browser being used.
• Because the BizTalk360 interface doesn't appear to be responsive to mobile devices, viewing it has been difficult.

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• Windows client has some issues. When you have small time intervals for your data collection, it can cause the client to become unresponsive and require you to restart it.
• It takes more time to get the web client running than it does to get the windows client running.
• The visualizations have been the same for the last eight years--could use a little bit of a refresh.

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In our company, BizTalk360 is used extensively because of its simplicity and the fact that it gives practically everything you need to accomplish routine tasks without the need for a console. Additionally, alarms save a lot of time and keep items on the radar by alerting, monitoring, or a variety of other purposes.

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SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager works well with Microsoft products. It has several advanced features along with dashboards and alerts that can be configured to user's need.

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• It is possible to automate most of the data monitoring process.
• As a general diagnostic tool, BizTalk360 will tell you what's wrong with your system.
• To detect and correct problems, you don't even have to get inside the system.

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• Reduce development hours by locating the queries to be optimized.
• Reduce hardware cost by requiring fewer hardware resources by optimizing database queries.
• Provides a very complete scorecard.

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