Fortra Robot Monitor vs. Redgate SQL Monitor

Redgate SQL Monitor

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Robot Monitor	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Robot Monitor from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) is presented as a comprehensive, in-depth monitoring solution available for Power Systems environments running IBM i alone or alongside VIOS, AIX, or Linux on Power.	N/A
Redgate SQL Monitor	Score 8.2 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.	N/A

Pricing

Fortra Robot Monitor

Redgate SQL Monitor

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Robot Monitor	Redgate SQL Monitor
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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All prices are per server and include one year’s support and upgrades. For clusters, each node requires a license. Virtual machines also require a license. You don't need to buy extra licenses for multiple SQL Server instances on a server.

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Community Pulse
	Fortra Robot Monitor	Redgate SQL Monitor
Top Pros	Pro Set up Pro Highly customizable	Pro Cpu usage Pro Sql servers Pro Quick results
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Custom metrics Minus Isn't the best Minus Performance issues

Features

Fortra Robot Monitor

Redgate SQL Monitor

SQL Performance Monitoring

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Fortra Robot Monitor - Ratings	Redgate SQL Monitor 9.8 5 Ratings 16% above category average
Performance dashboard	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Top SQL	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Historical trend data	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Virtualization support	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Fortra Robot Monitor	Redgate SQL Monitor
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	LogicMonitor Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	LogicMonitor Score 8.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Fortra Robot Monitor	Redgate SQL Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (2 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fortra Robot Monitor	Redgate SQL Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	Fortra Instantly drill down to show all the jobs consuming CPU, temporary storage, QTEMP, I/O, transactions, faulting rates, and other metrics, for faster problem resolution. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review	Redgate Redgate SQL Monitor is well suited for database administrators or companies who implement software that relies on SQL servers. It will help them test new changes and ensure this will not impact the performance of their software. It is a last resort for MSPs to use to get to the bottom of an ongoing performance issue with their SQL server. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Fortra Auto reply to the MSGW. Robot network GUI is place to monitor all the systems at one place. Based the MSG ID/JOBS, the alerts are set up to notify the concerned person/team. Incentivized Srikanth Doddapaneni Lead Consultant Read full review	Redgate It will tell you if your server is under attack. You can quickly see how your server is performing and which queries are taking the longest I gives you the feeling that you are in control of your database, that you know what is going on for when they users ring up and tell you that the server is slow Incentivized Doug Thompson 2016-17 Full Stack Solution Architect Read full review
Cons	Fortra It can have more customization More SQL features can be added Dashboard improvement Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review	Redgate Incremental releases can be buggy Isn't the best for pinpointing performance issues Web interface can be sluggish Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Fortra I found the Robot monitoring tool is more reliable for IBM i servers. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review	Redgate No answers on this topic
Usability	Fortra It is very easy to use and have lots of feature which makes our environment risk free. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review	Redgate Access to metrics is simple but I like easy access to top SQL Chris Taylor Director Read full review
Support Rating	Fortra Quiet active whenever there is any help required either on chat support or Contact. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review	Redgate Fast support responses from Redgate Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Fortra It's a best tool/product in the market and easy to use. It serves our purpose and saves a lot time of the resource from the manual task. The main and most important is, its support team. One of the best support team I have ever seen. Their dedicated product engineer have a good knowledge over the product and helps immediately. Incentivized Srikanth Doddapaneni Lead Consultant Read full review	Redgate 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 analysis seems to be much better. The Spiceworks SQL Server monitoring is a free tool and is ideal for monitoring small business SQL instances. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Fortra Can monitor the systems in a central view. It's easy to maintain with better security to the robo commands. Cost effectiveness. Incentivized Srikanth Doddapaneni Lead Consultant Read full review	Redgate The quality of the product and give a negative investment impression, on the plus side when it does work it is a god send. Day to day tasks as made simpler, and a feeling of security of realised. Just don't change anything. Incentivized Doug Thompson 2016-17 Full Stack Solution Architect Read full review
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