BizTalk360 vs. IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager

Rather than having just one aspect that I appreciate the most, I've found that there are several that I enjoy the most. Customized overviews of your environment and precise breakdowns of key regions have proven highly useful. That way, I can free up some of my time to work on other things that benefit the company by handing off monitoring responsibilities to the business or other teams having a stake in these areas.

Incentivized

SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

JBoss is well suited and supports for Open Source Applications where I used to work with BizTalk360 mainly with Windows Servers. BizTalk360 performs pretty much well with Windows. BizTalk360 really performs well with middleware.

Incentivized

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL, Redgate SQL, and MonitorLogicMonitor are similar products to each other. We decided on IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL because our experience with locating heavy queries has been very good and it provides real-time monitoring of all servers and databases. It also allows you to have a large volume of historical data which allows you to analyze trends in the databases.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Allows us to quickly set up ETL processes as soon as we installed SQL Server.
• There's a lot of free/paid resources available online, decreasing development time.
• A tool with plenty of experienced developers.

Incentivized