Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Datadog
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.
$18
per month per host
IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
SQL Diagnostic Manager for Microsoft SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix Microsoft 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 Microsoft SQL Server and…
$1,996
per instance with first year maintenance included
SELECT
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
SELECT is a Snowflake cost and performance management solution committed to providing the most seamless experience for optimizing a Snowflake data warehouse. SELECT is a SaaS product that helps Snowflake customers lower their costs, save time, and optimize performance. SELECT automatically optimizes warehouse utilization and provides visibility into account cost drivers, down to the workload level.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Log Management
$1.27
per month (billed annually) per host
Infrastructure
$15.00
per month (billed annually) per host
Standard
$18
per month per host
Enterprise
$27
per month per host
DevSecOps Pro
$27
per month per host
APM
$31.00
per month (billed annually) per host
DevSecOps Enterprise
$41
per month per host
Standard via eCommerce
1,996.00
per instance with first year maintenance included
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
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Features
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SQL Performance Monitoring
Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
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Ratings
IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
8.0
7 Ratings
5% below category average
SELECT
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Ratings
Performance dashboard00 Ratings9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Intelligent alerting00 Ratings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Top SQL00 Ratings9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical trend data00 Ratings9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization support00 Ratings5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
InfluxDB
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Score 8.8 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Score 8.8 out of 10
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
Score 9.0 out of 10
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain Technologies
Score 9.2 out of 10
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
Score 9.0 out of 10
LogicMonitor
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
DatadogIDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerSELECT
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(55 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(34 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.9
(6 ratings)
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User Testimonials
DatadogIDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerSELECT
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
Datadog may be better suited for teams that have a more out-of-the-box infrastructure, on the primary platforms Datadog supports. You may also have better results if you have a bigger team dedicated to devops and/or a bigger budget. We found that trying to adapt it to our use case (small team, .NET on AWS Fargate) wasn't feasible. We continually ran into roadblocks that required us to dig through documentation (and at times, having to figure out some documentation was wrong), go back and forth with support, and in my opinion, waste money on excessive and unintended usages due to opaque pricing models and inaccurate usage reports, as well as broken/non-functional rate sampling controls.
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Idera, Inc.
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.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Pros
Datadog
  • The thing which Datadog does really well, one of them are its broad range of services integrations and features which makes it one step observability solution for all. We can monitor all types of our application, infrastructure, hosts, databases etc with Datadog.
  • Its custom dashboard feature which helps us to visualize the data in a better way . It supports different types of charts through those charts we can create our dashboard more attractive.
  • Its AI powered alerting capability though that we can easily identify the root cause and also it has a low noise alerting capability which means it correlated the similar type of issues.
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Idera, Inc.
  • 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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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Cons
Datadog
  • Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range)
  • I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer
  • I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame
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Idera, Inc.
  • 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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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Likelihood to Renew
Datadog
Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
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Idera, Inc.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Usability
Datadog
There are so many features that it can be hard to figure out where you need to go for your own use case. For example, RUM monitoring us buried in a "Digital Experience" sidebar setting when this is one of our key use cases that I sometimes struggle to find in the application. It appears that ECS + Fargate monitoring was recently released which is great because we had to build a lambda reporting solution for ephemeral task monitoring. But this new feature was never on my radar until I starting clicking around the application.
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Idera, Inc.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Support Rating
Datadog
The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.
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Idera, Inc.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Implementation Rating
Datadog
Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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Idera, Inc.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Alternatives Considered
Datadog
Our logs are very important, and Datadog manages them exceptionally well. We frequently use Datadog services for our investigations. Use case: Monitor your apps, infrastructure, APIs, and user experience.


Key features:


Logs, metrics, and APM (Application Performance Monitoring)


Real-time alerting and dashboards


Supports Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and other integrations


RUM (Real User Monitoring) and Synthetics





✅ Best for backend, server, and distributed systems monitoring.
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Idera, Inc.
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.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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Return on Investment
Datadog
  • Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
  • Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
  • Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.
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Idera, Inc.
  • 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.
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Select Labs, Inc (select.dev)
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ScreenShots

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager Screenshots

Screenshot of SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server