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    Woodler SMT

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    SMT (SQL Monitoring & Tuning) is an advanced solution designed to help organizations reduce troubleshooting time and deliver consistently high SQL Server performance. Built by performance engineers, SMT provides deep visibility into SQL Server internals, enabling precise and data-driven decision-making. Key Capabilities Root Cause Analysis - Correlates query performance, wait statistics, I/O, and storage metrics to identify true…N/A

    Sumo Logic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

    $3

    Per GB Logs

    Pricing
    Woodler SMTSumo Logic
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Woodler SMTSumo Logic
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Woodler SMTSumo Logic
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    Woodler s.r.o.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Woodler SMTSumo Logic
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Woodler SMT and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Woodler SMT
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Sumo Logic
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    Ratings
    Performance dashboard8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Top SQL8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical trend data8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization support9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Woodler SMTSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    9.0
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    Professional Services
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    6.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Woodler SMTSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Woodler s.r.o.
    Woodler SMT is intended to be [a] specialized SQL Server monitoring tool. Unlike other monitoring systems, Woodler SMT does not take care [of] networks, AD, and other stuff along [with] company infrastructures. As for me, at least, this makes the Woodler SMT very strong in its area of expertise. If anybody is looking for [professional,] specialized SQL performance monitoring, the Woodler SMT would be the best choice. For general monitoring, this tool rather will not help.
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    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
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    Pros
    Woodler s.r.o.
    • It contains all the diagnostics information that you need for optimization of queries, deep analysis of SQL server state, and much more
    • Regular deployment of a new versions with minor fixes but mainly with the new features.
    • It helps to make operational decisions, how to improve the performance and also expansion of the whole environment.
    • Buying this also contains excellent service from the Woodler support.
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    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Cons
    Woodler s.r.o.
    • Sysadmin access to your system.
    • Consumes disk capacity on monitored server to store all the data.
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    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
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    Usability
    Woodler s.r.o.
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
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    Support Rating
    Woodler s.r.o.
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
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    Implementation Rating
    Woodler s.r.o.
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Woodler s.r.o.
    We like Woodler SMT because we can benefit from Woodler Support team to connect to our servers and help us with different issues.
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
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    Professional Services
    Woodler s.r.o.
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Return on Investment
    Woodler s.r.o.
    • It saves the time of troubleshooting
    • It increases user's satisfaction with products relaying on SQL Server's performance
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    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
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    ScreenShots

    Woodler SMT Screenshots

    Screenshot of Server Dashboard
For a comprehensive view of a server’s current state. Woodler SMT helps identify performance bottlenecks and drill down into specific areas with targeted exploratory reports.Screenshot of Per file storage metrics
One of the most comprehensive analyses in the tool, delivering deep insight into storage performance. Analyze read/write latency, throughput, I/O, and average block size with precise database file-level granularity.Screenshot of Per table index usage analysis.
This offers visibility into SQL Server by analyzing operational and usage metrics down to the index level, with up to 3 years of historical data. It can be used for uncovering suboptimal or unused indexes.Screenshot of Query performance analysis over time.
Detect plan changes instantly through visual indicators (different line color)
See real execution time (Last Duration), not misleading averagesScreenshot of Wait statistic analysis
Thread wait statistics are a baseline standard for performance analysis, and SMT goes beyond that. By including signal waits, spinlocks, and latches, it enables the viewer to detect and resolve the most complex thread synchronization issues.