3rd party monitoring tools for sql

[kodaksmile]

Wondering if any of you out there use either NetIQ, HP OpenView or SCOM to monitor your sql databases? If so any comments? Our company is looking at those 3 (mostly to monitor other stuff) and I was wondering what your experiences may have been..... good or bad.

 

[mrdenny]

We currently use MOM and Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise for our monitoring.

I've used NetIQ in the past, and while it's pretty good it's very complex and very expensive.

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[ptheriault]

I use SQL diagnostics manager from Idera. It's not that expensive. it was very easy to set up and has some very good feature not offered in other products. Like most frequently run queries or worst performing queries.

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