Evanios vs IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server comparison

Evanios and IDERA are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. Evanios is ranked #17, while IDERA is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.0. Evanios holds a 0.6% mindshare in EM, compared to IDERA’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Evanios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of IDERA users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and Evanios are competing products in the database and IT operations management category. Based on the comparison, Evanios seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and broader operational scope.

Features: IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager provides real-time SQL server performance monitoring, alerting capabilities, and diagnostic insights. It allows for historical data analysis and customization of alerts and counters. Evanios offers an integrated platform for IT operations management, with capabilities like event correlation, system analytics, integration with various alert-generating systems, and a powerful rules engine for event processing.

Room for Improvement: IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager could benefit from enhanced support for newer dynamic management views and expanded non-SQL server functionalities. Improvements in user interface design and broader integration options would also be valuable. Evanios might enhance user training for its comprehensive features and streamline its setup process. Enhanced documentation and simplified rule creation for novice users are additional areas for improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager is known for its straightforward setup within SQL environments and a responsive support team. Evanios offers flexible cloud-based deployment options, providing adaptability for IT operations, alongside robust customer service. Evanios’s commitment to developing specific solutions for users adds a valuable layer of service.

Pricing and ROI: IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager is valued for its cost-effective pricing and favorable short-term ROI due to its SQL-focused features. The initial investment in Evanios is higher, but its extensive feature set can lead to substantial long-term ROI by streamlining broader IT operations. The differences highlight IDERA’s cost efficiency for SQL management and Evanios’s potential for enhancing IT operations.

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Categories and Ranking

Evanios

Ranking in Event Monitoring

17th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (69th), IT Operations Analytics (18th)

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manage...

Ranking in Event Monitoring

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of Evanios is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is 1.2%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Works at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The vendor is willing to work with us and develop solutions for products they did not already have an integration for.

As with any new software implementation, during the integration we found a couple of minor issues when integrating certain products (such as SCOM). However, each time this happened Evanios was very quick to identify the bug we were seeing, patch it and provide the new update set for us to install. Also, during the evaluation of Evanios we found that they already had integrations with most of our larger monitoring tools, however they also stated that they would be able to create update sets to integrate certain products we used that they did not currently support. This proved to be very valuable for us because they were able to become an even better fit for our organization by creating update sets\integrations for PRTG, Quest Foglight, TIBCO and Thousand Eyes as well.

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SeniorDB3550

Senior DBA Lead at a government with 10,001+ employees

Proactively alerts us on a wide variety of issues, but it has not scaled out well with our large environment

We get hundreds of alerts per day, because we manage so many different servers and databases, that alert us to disk space issues, query issues, a wide variety of things. We take that information and we're able to make proactive decisions as to what we need to do. In terms of the solution helping us with performance monitoring and diagnostics, sticking with the alerting feature, 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. Overall, it has allowed us to do more with database management and run more databases on a given server, because we're able to isolate issues quicker and take the proactive steps necessary to correct them. We were spread out with many servers running databases. We've consolidated some 80 servers down to just a handful. We're getting more bang for the buck out of the equipment that we have.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Provided up to a 90% noise reduction in some our noisy monitoring tools."

"The ability to manipulate events via JavaScript getting the exact data that we want."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with various alert-generating systems because you might have synthetic alerts or monitoring alerts for volume drops."

"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."

"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."

"Memory and CPU utilization features are good."

"Monitors and alerts on our mission critical instances in real-time on a 24/7 basis."

"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."

"SQL DM made troubleshooting much easier and allowed multiple people to look into an issue with confidence."

"The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature."

Cons

"The price could be cheaper."

"More complex correlation rules would be nice. The ability to clearly define a parent event in a correlation and nested correlations, specifically."

"We would like the ability to have an "exit" option for events when they are being processed."

"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."

"They can improve checking the status of the CPU, memory, and IO utilization from each task."

"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."

"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."

"It would helpful if SQL DM could mark when changes are made within the program."

"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 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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is reasonable, it's comparable with the competitors."

"We were upgraded to Premium Support without their actually asking us, when we were quoted. Then I asked for Standard Support and that they had to re-quote us that. But they don't do that by default. They upcharge you by default, which I didn't think was very nice, without even asking."

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What do you like most about IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server?

The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature.

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What needs improvement with IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server?

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. In future releases, I w...

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What is your primary use case for IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server?

We use it mainly for monitoring, including CPU, memory, and disk space, and for troubleshooting purposes.

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Overview

A key component of the Event Management process is consolidation of events from across the enterprise. By consolidating disparate events into a single solution, they can be de-duplicated and correlated. For example, network failure events can be correlated with system failures, and then prioritized based on service impact.

Reduce the noise

Evanios Integrations allows filtering and processing close to the event source, keeping the weight off of the ServiceNow system for increased performance. Filters are easily configured. EVA, the Evanios consolidation point also has built in event flood control features, to protect against unexpected event storms which can quickly overload traditional integrations.

Evanios

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.

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Sample Customers

Greenville Health System, Land O’Lakes, AstraZeneca

Padnos, University of Notre Dame, D4, Infeon Technologies, Chevron, LC Waikiki, Sisters of Saint Francis Health Services, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, CVE, Colorado State University, St. Charles, Chaucer PLC, 1-800-Flowers, Ancoris, Money Management, National Opinion Research Center, California Department of Health, Plexus; Aviva, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CBS, Comcast, Google, Merck, Regions Financial, Schneider Electric, Tata Consultancy Services, Verizon Communications, Zurich Financial Services

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