IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager Reviews & Insights

We use IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager to help us monitor, manage and maintain our SQL Server environment. This helps us proactively instead of reactively deal with and manager our environment properly.

This tool is good is small to medium sql server footprint environments. Not sure if it is ideal for large scale environments

We are using the IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server in the Production department of the organization to detect erroneous or very heavy queries to the database. We are using this product to identify that consulting slowed down the performance of applications in the organization, achieving optimal performance after correcting said queries.

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server generates very visual graphs of the databases and servers that allow you to create a command me chart in an easy way, it is also capable of identifying the queries that penalize the database the most to correct it. It is not necessary to install any component in the databases to be monitored. As against, the installation of IDERA Dashboard can be complicated and does not detect database clusters well.

SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager was used by our organization to track SQL Server Bi Platforms (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) and collect performance related data. It was being used by our IT and Business Intelligence Department to improve performance for end users.

SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use.

We rely on IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server to monitor all of our production SQL server environment. This includes our standalone instances as well as our always-on-availability groups. IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server has allowed us to automate all of our monitoring as well as giving us a bonus of the predictive functionality to find issues before they cause problems.

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is well suited for monitoring your SQL server instances, either standalone, clustered or always-on-availability groups. I believe the best scenario is on production servers. For development instances, perhaps it is not as cost effective. There may be more cost-effective solutions in those types of scenarios.

We used BI Manager to develop and maintain all of our ETL packages.

BIDS works well if you're committed to using all MS products. It does take some serious consideration if you know you will end up working outside of that, such as working with AWS products.

We're using SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager to monitor our SQL Server BI platforms (analysis services, reporting services, and integration services). It's great at collecting metrics and KPIs regarding query execution and performance for SSAS in both standard and cube models, and also provides great insights for packages executed by SSIS.

MS SQL Server provides nice monitoring tools for its core SQL engine, but that's not the case with the BI components (SSAS, SSRS and SSIS). SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is great at filling this gap, providing valuable insights and alerts for these critical tools, and also great tuning capabilities for cubes.

I am the sole DBA of a company that has facilities in the US and in Europe. In order to effectively keep up with the health of our SQL servers (I manage about 20), I needed a tool that would let me quickly assess which servers needed my attention and which ones were behaving as expected. SQLdm provides me the information that I need to address any complaints about speed and connectivity from an interface that's easy to move around in.

If you have several SQL servers and don't have a lot of time or resources to constantly monitor them, SQLdm will be very helpful. For one or two servers, it might be overkill. All of our servers are virtual, so having a tool that can monitor host metrics as well as guest metrics is a plus as well.

We were using SQL Server BI Manager to monitor the health and availability of our entire SQL Server BI environment. This includes SSIS, SSRS and SSAS. The business problems that this addresses are all related to ensuring our customers get the best BI solutions available. Currently it is being used by our reporting department, but we assume it might spread shortly.

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is well suited for organizations with large scale BI deployments. When tracking all of your SSIS, SSAS and SSRS processes that are spread out and disjointed, this tool will enable one user to get a holistic view of the whole environment. If you want to be proactive in handling performance issues before they happen, then this tool is good too.