G2 Vendor Directory

SQL Diagnostic Manager vs. Grafana Labs

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSQL Diagnostic Manager

by Idera, Inc.

Grafana Labs

by Grafana Labs

Overall rating4.14.5
Review count14220
Ease of use8.78.8
Ease of setup9.38.6
Quality of support8.68.6
Meets requirements9.29.1
NPS35.71428669.953052
Small Business14.3%28.6%
Mid-Market57.1%46.1%
Enterprise28.6%25.3%
Total page views1701,090
Total LLM citations23311,697

SQL Diagnostic Manager

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager (SQL DM) is a leading SQL Server performance monitoring, diagnostics, and optimization platform for database administrators managing on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Now in version 14, SQL Diagnostic Manager delivers enterprise-grade visibility into SQL Server health, availability, query performance, and resource utilization — with built-in AI-powered query and workload index optimization introduced in the latest release.

Pros

  • Reporting
  • SQL Queries
  • Issue Resolution
  • Installation Ease

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 3,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 1 million active instances of Grafana around the world.

Pros

  • Data Visualization
  • Ease of Use
  • Dashboard Usability
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Monitoring
  • Dashboards