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Fortra Robot Monitor vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Robot Monitor
Score 8.5 out of 10
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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
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Score 8.9 out of 10
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VividCortex, acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019, provides database performance monitoring designed to increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings. The GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant platform offers visibility into major open-source databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis—for the engineering team at scale. Industry leaders like Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp rely on Database Performance Monitor for all-query monitoring and drill…N/A
Pricing
Fortra Robot MonitorSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Robot MonitorSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Fortra Robot MonitorSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Fortra Robot MonitorSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Fortra Robot MonitorSolarWinds Database Performance 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.
Nitish Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nitish Kumar
Consultant
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SolarWinds
Computing resources consumed by the DB instance, DPA queries & wait time, deadlock conditions, virtual infrastructure resources. The addition of NPM & DPA integration as well as cross-correlation in the identification of issues with the network or server or DB is all stupid-proof. Monitoring is more than just health and resource consumption, it's also performance. DB performance analysis is key to maintaining healthy DB instances.
Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Maner
Network Systems Engineer
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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.
Srikanth Doddapaneni | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds
  • Simple to use and very easy to learn.
  • The execution engines run in parallel, can execute any syntax or query.
  • DPN can run all queries for both Oracle and SQL with no additional support.
Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Maner
Network Systems Engineer
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Cons
Fortra
  • It can have more customization
  • More SQL features can be added
  • Dashboard improvement
Nitish Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nitish Kumar
Consultant
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SolarWinds
  • The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization.
Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Network Systems Engineer
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Likelihood to Renew
Fortra
I found the Robot monitoring tool is more reliable for IBM i servers.
Nitish Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Consultant
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SolarWinds
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Usability
Fortra
It is very easy to use and have lots of feature which makes our environment risk free.
Nitish Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds
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Support Rating
Fortra
Quiet active whenever there is any help required either on chat support or Contact.
Nitish Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nitish Kumar
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SolarWinds
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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.
Srikanth Doddapaneni | TrustRadius Reviewer
Srikanth Doddapaneni
Lead Consultant
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SolarWinds
DPM is less expensive and more feature-rich. Also, Oracle tech support is garbage, unless you can afford to spend a day getting assistance.
Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Maner
Network Systems Engineer
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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.
Srikanth Doddapaneni | TrustRadius Reviewer
Srikanth Doddapaneni
Lead Consultant
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SolarWinds
  • What is the cost of a downed DB instance? That's your ROI. DPM lets you see issues before they become critical.
Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Maner
Network Systems Engineer
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Screenshots

Screenshot of The Profiler Dashboard is a powerful, dynamic dashboard for ranking and filtering activity on your servers: It can instantly show you what needs attention and it provides a unified view of all your database types that VividCortex monitors. It enables you to view and understand your system by profiling it according to its most significant attributes—customized and selected by you.Screenshot of This dashboard displays a list of queries and allows you to filter them with powerful specificity. Filters can be set according to query text, host, and timeframe when the query was first seen / last active.Screenshot of VividCortex captures an enormous amount of data, and the Summary Dashboard helps users make sense of it, reducing their time-to-insight. It features widgets with automatic displays for Top 5 Queries by Total Time, Top 5 Queries by User CPU, Application Overview, Critical Events, and more.Screenshot of VividCortex monitors thousands of metrics in your system, and the Charts and Dashboard’s navigation pane allows you to toggle, customize, and enable various categories of generated charts. You can then easily navigate and examine the charts’ metrics with mouseover and zoom capabilities.