We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"
"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"DX UIM is scalable."
"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."
"It is easy to implement."
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"Monitors and alerts on our mission critical instances in real-time on a 24/7 basis."
"The most valuable features are disk space projections for planning, and also the Snapshotting ability, to look back in time, to see what was going on the server at a particular time. It's basically the output of an sp_who2."
"The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature."
"The best part of SQL DM is the ability to customize alerts and counters. This allows our team to find an issue then alert on the issue at a granular level."
"SQL DM made troubleshooting much easier and allowed multiple people to look into an issue with confidence."
"We're able to diagnose issues prior to their actually becoming issues. Without the alerting, we wouldn't have a clue as to what was going to happen. With the alerting, it gives us a heads-up that a specific threshold has been met, and we need to take specific action."
"Memory and CPU utilization features are good."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"Stability."
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"The initial setup gives too many user rights to the server, so you have to put a user that is part administrator's group - that's the preferred way - on each server, which is kind of a risk. You want to do least privilege and you're not doing that."
"I'm going to do an upgrade which may resolve my issues, but one area for improvement is its ability to handle the amount of data that we collect with it. We're likely one of the largest installations, with over 300 servers being collected with this product, and sometimes there are gaps. That would really be my only concern, in terms of how the data is collected and stored, for consistency."
"I would absolutely love to create customized dashboards but, unfortunately, they don't provide me the information that I need to create the report. The report I need is the detail or the transaction detail that's happening on those Snapshots. I'd like to be able to go back through time and search for things. I don't have that functionality, which is very disappointing. That's pretty bad and frustrating because I could query it and find out so much information about what's hitting my environment and when, but instead, they want control over it and to not give me that information. So it's encrypted. I can't pull it out and that is really bothersome."
"It would helpful if SQL DM could mark when changes are made within the program."
"We don't find that it helps us with performance monitoring and diagnostics. We find that SentryOne does that better. Also, in terms of alerts, we had to customize them dramatically so that we didn't get alerted on every little thing."
"One thing I'd like to see is the ability to view the execution plan and have the system automatically recommend potential query optimizations, especially at the query level."
"They can improve checking the status of the CPU, memory, and IO utilization from each task."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 8 reviews while IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is ranked 9th in Database Development and Management with 1 review. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "A simple product that is easy to deploy and very easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server writes " Offers effective monitoring of resources but lacks the ability to connect to an AWS instance and write custom queries". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI, whereas IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Redgate SQL Toolbelt, Quest Spotlight, Quest Foglight for Databases and SQL Sentry. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server report.
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