Best Database Monitoring Tools

Compare the Top Database Monitoring Tools as of July 2025

What are Database Monitoring Tools?

Database monitoring tools help businesses and IT teams track, analyze, and optimize the performance of their databases to ensure smooth operation, prevent downtime, and maintain data integrity. These tools typically provide features for real-time monitoring of database metrics such as query performance, response times, CPU and memory usage, and disk space utilization. Database monitoring software often includes alerting mechanisms for detecting issues such as slow queries or resource bottlenecks, as well as detailed reporting and analytics to improve database efficiency and scalability. By using these tools, organizations can proactively manage database health, troubleshoot problems, and optimize system performance. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Monitoring tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, best-of-breed, open source database monitoring and management solution. It helps enterprises reduce complexity and simplify management, while optimizing performance and improving the security of your business-critical database environments, no matter where they are located - on-premises or in the cloud. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible. PMM allows you to identify the issues that impact your business, fast! Our single platform simplifies management and reduces complexity. It helps you optimize your database by allowing you to easily find, fix, and prevent issues with scaling, bottlenecks and potential outages. Our innovative tools improve data security and reduce your risk of data exposure. PMM is used by thousands of organizations around the globe to manage their complex database environments.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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    AimBetter

    AimBetter

    AimBetter

    Ensure business continuity by proactively preventing and resolving outages and poor performance in core systems such as ERP, WMS, and others based on SQL Server/ Oracle. 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: Get the root cause of DB system issues in real-time, including queries, resources, and code analysis. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: Providing automatic DBA capabilities, AimBetter reduces dependency on specialized DBAs by 80% through automated analysis and actionable insights. 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: Centralized, easy-to-deploy solution suitable for businesses of all sizes. A 5-minute installation in one of the company's servers doesn't load the analyzed servers. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀: Notifies users of anomalies and potential issues before they impact users. 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽: Enables receiving alerts and taking critical actions like killing sessions from anywhere. Real-Time Problem Solving
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Group

    Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    eG Enterprise

    eG Enterprise

    eG Innovations

    IT performance monitoring is not about monitoring CPU, memory and network resources any more. eG Enterprise makes user experience the centerpiece of your IT monitoring and management strategy. With eG Enterprise, you can measure the digital experience of your users, get deep visibility into the performance the entire application delivery stack — from code to user experience, and data center to cloud — from a single pane of glass, correlate performance across domains and pinpoint the root-cause of problems proactively. Machine learning and analytics capabilities embedded in eG Enterprise enable IT teams make intelligent decisions regarding right-sizing, optimization and planning for future growth. The result: happy users, enhanced productivity, improved IT efficiency and tangible business ROI. eG Enterprise is available for installation on-premise and as a SaaS solution. Start a free trial today.
    Starting Price: $1,000 per month
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    ScaleGrid

    ScaleGrid

    ScaleGrid

    ScaleGrid is a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform that helps you automate your time-consuming database administration tasks both in the cloud and on-premises. Easily provision, monitor, backup and scale your open source databases with high availability, advanced security, full superuser and SSH access, query analysis, and troubleshooting support to improve the performance of your deployments. Supported databases include: - MySQL - PostgreSQL - Redis™ - MongoDB® database - Greenplum™ (coming soon) The ScaleGrid platform supports both public and private clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DigitalOcean, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), VMware and OpenStack. Used by thousands of developers, startups, and enterprise customers including Atlassian, Meteor, and Accenture, ScaleGrid handles all your database operations at any scale so you can focus on your application performance.
    Starting Price: $8 per month
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    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring
    Starting Price: $0/year
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    SQL Planner

    SQL Planner

    SQL Planner

    Access SQL Planner application from any device, anywhere and manage your SQL server (Automation of SQL health analysis, monitoring, alerts, backup and validation, index de-fragmentation, stats maintenance, automation) with ease. SQL Planner can be installed on your local machine having Microsoft windows operating system, and provide SQL server credential (ensure it has Server view state permission or higher privilege, preferably Sysadmin) which has to be monitored or analyzed for health. SQL Planner starts collecting performance and server usage data very efficiently, ensuring your SQL runs smoothly, it also alerts you by email on several critical factor when encountered such as continuous high CPU, RAM, disk usage, database or drive space usage etc. SQL Planner instance can be used from browser (Firefox Mozilla preferred).
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    openITCOCKPIT

    openITCOCKPIT

    it-novum GmbH

    Easy to use configuration web interface for Nagios and Naemon. The monitoring solution for corporations and SMEs From large data centers to critical IT services – monitor and manage all of your servers, applications and systems at a glance! openITCOCKPIT creates transparency by providing comprehensive monitoring of your entire IT landscape. Its modular design includes features such as reporting, event correlation and clustering capabilities – all in an intuitive web interface. And by using its supplied host and service templates, experienced administrators can save time and effort which will be better placed in other areas. The supplied REST API makes it easy to connect to external systems. With openITCOCKPIT, the classical division between monitoring and configuration is removed. After exporting the configuration to Naemon/Nagios, users can immediately see the status of the monitored hosts and services in the front end and then edit them directly.
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    SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
    Quickly pinpoint performance issues with SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) while providing expert advice with tuning advisors. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning allows DBAs to proactively optimize databases before small issues become big problems. Real-time analysis with 24/7 monitoring and automated alerts provides the time an error occurred instead of just knowing it was “sometime last week.” DPA helps ease the use of more than 20 cross-platform databases in hybrid, on-premises and cloud environments.
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    Navicat Monitor

    Navicat Monitor

    PremiumSoft CyberTech

    Navicat Monitor is a safe, simple and agentless remote server monitoring tool that is packed with powerful features to make your monitoring effective as possible. Monitored servers include MySQL, MariaDB and SQL Server, and compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Navicat Monitor includes a rich set of real-time and historical graphs that allow you to drill down into server statistic details. It gives you a detailed view of each server load and performance regarding its availability, disk usage, network I/O, table locks and more, which allows you to easily track the deviations and traffic among servers, as well as examine possible solutions and adjust your server settings. Collect metrics of multiple instances on the same chart to compare and analyze data at incredible speed. You can also save your chart as a high-quality PDF document with one click.
    Starting Price: $12.99 per month
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    Avantra

    Avantra

    Avantra

    With nearly 20 years experience helping Enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) globally to better manage their SAP and cloud landscapes, we know what it takes to deliver better service, productivity, innovation and compliance to businesses who rely on SAP. Founded in Switzerland with global presence in UK, USA, Germany and Australia we are well placed to support the largest SAP customers and Managed Service Providers.
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    Foglight

    Foglight

    Quest Software

    Optimize performance across your databases and virtual infrastructure. Go beyond basic performance monitoring with Foglight® to quickly identify and resolve performance issues across your physical, virtual and cloud environments. Foglight products easily integrate with your existing tools, so you can monitor and analyze data from almost any source across your infrastructure and view it through a single interface. And with our fully customizable dashboards, you’re able to zero in on what matters most to your organization and view data in ways that are relevant to your business, giving you the database visibility you need while boosting overall productivity. With Foglight, you’re able to proactively detect, monitor, manage and resolve performance issues before they impact the business.
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    SQL Compliance Manager

    SQL Compliance Manager

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Compliance Manager helps database administrators to monitor, audit, and alert on SQL Server user activity and data changes. Unlike its competition, it provides quick configuration of audit settings, a broad list of regulatory guideline templates for audit settings and reports, before and after data values for both regulatory compliance and forensic data investigations, differentiation of data access and between regular and privileged users and applications, easy specification of and reporting on sensitive data columns access and changes, and extensive customization of audit settings for databases and servers.
    Starting Price: $3,036.00 per instance
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    Compliance Builder
    Compliance Builder™ is a real-time monitoring solution designed to enable 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, providing data integrity across IT systems such as file systems, database systems, laboratory or manufacturing instruments. By generating an audit trail and enabling electronic signatures, Compliance Builder allows you to securely track changes across all IT subsystems including file systems, databases, laboratory or manufacturing process equipment. It can be configured to monitor any file-based system for changes, including additions, deletions, and file modifications.
    Starting Price: 25000.00
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    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy SQL Server and Windows.
    Starting Price: $1,996 per instance
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    Redgate SQL Monitor

    Redgate SQL Monitor

    Redgate Software

    SQL Monitor helps you and your team find issues – before they become problems: Alerting – Discover issues before they have an impact Diagnosis – Uncover obstacles and find root causes Performance – See what has the biggest impact on your system Overview – View your SQL Server estate at a glance Reporting – Share tailored reports about your servers' health
    Starting Price: $1,565
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    Sysgem Enterprise Manager
    Flexible and modular tools for monitoring and managing systems, administering user accounts and auditing security in one single screen - across Windows, UNIX/Linux, OpenVMS and IBM. SEM offers the three core application modules Sysgem System Manager (SSyM), Sysgem Account Manager (SAcM) and Sysgem File Synchronizer (SFiS) which all run via the SEM framework. Unite, simplify and integrate core system administration solutions across a multi-platform environment. Unify user account management across a multi-platform, multi-application environment. Manage the controlled distribution and deployment of configuration files across infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $200 per user per month
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    Thundra

    Thundra

    Thundra

    Thundra is a developer platform company that empowers application teams to develop, debug, test, and monitor modern microservices on the cloud. By offering everything from automated instrumentation to cloud debugging and test optimization in a single platform, Thundra eliminates the need for multiple tools for pre-production and production environments
    Starting Price: $90 per month
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    SQL Doctor

    SQL Doctor

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Doctor helps database administrators to tune SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competitors, it provides display health of all SQL Servers, generation of ready-to-run SQL scripts to optimize and undo optimization, limiting of analysis to specified databases, applications, and performance categories, and real-time, as-needed, and scheduled checkups.
    Starting Price: $500 per user
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    Nagios XI

    Nagios XI

    Nagios Enterprises, LLC

    Provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party addons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house applications, services, and systems. Provides a central view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. Powerful dashboards provide at-a-glance access to powerful monitoring information and third-party data. Views provide users with quick access to the information they find most useful. Automated, integrated trending and capacity planning graphs allow organizations to plan for infrastructure upgrades before outdated systems catch them by surprise. Alerts are sent to IT staff, business stakeholders, and end-users via email or mobile text messages, providing them with outage details so they can start resolving issues immediately.
    Starting Price: $1995.00/one-time
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    Visual KPI

    Visual KPI

    Transpara

    Real-time operations monitoring and data visualization, including KPIs, dashboards, trends, analytics, hierarchy and alerts. Aggregates all of your data sources (industrial, IoT, business, external, etc.) on the fly without moving the data, and displays it in real-time with obvious context on any device.
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