IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server fits the bill
Overall Satisfaction with IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
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.
Pros
- Ease of setup--agentless
- Flexible in terms of configuring alerts and thresholds
- Cost effective
Cons
- Windows client has some issues. When you have small time intervals for your data collection, it can cause the client to become unresponsive and require you to restart it.
- It takes more time to get the web client running than it does to get the windows client running.
- The visualizations have been the same for the last eight years--could use a little bit of a refresh.
- Quickly identify issues around deadlocks and blocking. Quickly allowing for resolution
- Quickly and easily enable automation around issues so we can reduce the amount of time it takes for resolution of issues
- Having built-in tools to view things such as index fragmentation--allows you to quickly find correlations in performance issues
All the toolsets we looked at have the same basic feature sets. We felt like IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server had more features (SQL Doctor features) and better historical features. More toolsets now have a lot of these features, but for eight years, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server led the pack in these areas.
Do you think IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server's feature set?
Yes
Did IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server again?
Yes
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