Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open-source database monitoring and management solution. It helps enterprises reduce complexity and simplify management, while optimizing performance and improving the security of business-critical database environments - on-premises or in the cloud. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB servers to ensure that data works as efficiently as possible. PMM allows users to identify the issues that…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
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Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree and open-source
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
Chose Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
Vividcortex is nice but is costly.
Datadog loses for me on the UI front and, of course, it will be a charged product.
Chose Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
1. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor is a good choice but has its own costly price. Percona Monitoring and Management is stacking up against it in managing hundreds of databases and storing them.
2.Datadog is also paid plus not Open source. PMM is free open source and …
Chose Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
VividCortex is really excellent when it comes to query analysis, but it's pricy and on-premises sample collection is more problematic. When you have hundreds of machines and you even need to store the monitoring metadata locally, PMM is an excellent choice. If you are mainly …
Chose Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
1. Datadog and VividCortex are Paid and ClosedSource.
2. No other solution provides deep dive in MySQL and integration with multiple data sources
3. PMM is easy to used (Build on top of Grafana and Prometheus )
SolarWinds 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
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(7 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(4 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.1
(3 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Percona
I suggest you try [Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)] at least once. Afterward, it
will make you feel relaxed. It really works and gives you more than your
expectations. It is equipped with multiple latest and advanced tools that will
fully satisfy you. So obviously there will be no need to concern other devices. It is
an excellent data management solution and also it is the best monitoring device than
any other.
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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.
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Pros
Percona
  • Measure the time and performance of queries made in a database
  • Integration with tools like Prometheus with the aim of storing information based on time
  • Monitor our databases in the cloud, as well as optimize the performance of the database, improving the usability of customer applications
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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.
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Cons
Percona
  • Sometimes it creates problems while serving a huge number of servers but I am sure its efficient team will overcome this problem soon and with its rapid advancements there will surely be more latest and advanced alerting options.
  • Truly speaking this is a great invention with very few shortcomings. I never face any dependency issues.
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SolarWinds
  • The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization.
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Usability
Percona
I am using PMM for a long time now and the Dashboard provides a great overview for general server health and law. You get to watch if there are many queries when you get a problem. Time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to confirm that your data works as efficiently as possible. We could improve database performance significantly.
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SolarWinds
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Support Rating
Percona
Percona has a history of being good at providing really informative materials in form of blog post, documentation, webinars or conference presentations. T is also true to the Percona Monitoring and Management, you can find excellent source of information on their site or on the forum. Support tickets are also handled well.
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SolarWinds
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Alternatives Considered
Percona
Vividcortex is nice but is costly.
Datadog loses for me on the UI front and, of course, it will be a charged product.
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has been best blend of technologies and is supported by the Percona community very well.
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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.
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Return on Investment
Percona
  • This is a matchless tool for keeping us alert with all amazing monitoring capabilities. Almost all of its features and functionalities help us in achieving our goals by enhancing success rates.
  • Customer support is responsible.
  • Its performance is mind-blowing.
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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.
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ScreenShots

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Screenshots

Screenshot of PMM Home DashboardScreenshot of PMM Query AnalyticsScreenshot of PMM PostgreSQLScreenshot of PMM MySQL Amazon Aurora Details

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.