IBM Cloud Monitoring vs. Redgate SQL Monitor

Redgate SQL Monitor

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Monitoring	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Monitoring service is a fully managed monitoring service for administrators, DevOps teams and developers, offering deep container visibility and comprehensive metrics to help users reduce costs and better manage the software lifecycle.	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

IBM Cloud Monitoring

Redgate SQL Monitor

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Monitoring	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
	IBM Cloud Monitoring	Redgate SQL Monitor
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	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

IBM Cloud Monitoring

Redgate SQL Monitor

SQL Performance Monitoring

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Monitoring - 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
	IBM Cloud Monitoring	Redgate SQL Monitor
Small Businesses	Panda Systems Management Score 9.4 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 9.2 out of 10	LogicMonitor Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 9.2 out of 10	LogicMonitor Score 8.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Monitoring	Redgate SQL Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Monitoring	Redgate SQL Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM It is well suited for our use case, which is tracking load balancer data. We would also like to explore tracking other cloud resources, such as web and database servers John Reeve Co-founder, Lead developer, Lead designer 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	IBM Versatility. It can track more than just the load balancer data we collect. Custom dashboards can be created for our particular use cases John Reeve Co-founder, Lead developer, Lead designer 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	IBM It's versatility is also a weakness because it requires piecing together data sources. Would be nice if there a gallery of pre-built dashboards to choose from. Data sources aren't clearly labeled. Took some time to identify and isolate our load balancer data sources when creating dashboards. John Reeve Co-founder, Lead developer, Lead designer 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
Usability	IBM No answers on this topic	Redgate Access to metrics is simple but I like easy access to top SQL Chris Taylor Director Read full review
Support Rating	IBM No answers on this topic	Redgate Fast support responses from Redgate Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM No answers on this topic	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	IBM Allows us to monitor our resources at IBM instead of having to rely entirely on third party monitoring tools John Reeve Co-founder, Lead developer, Lead designer 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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