Senior DBA Lead at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 21, 2018
We use it to look at the overarching environment and, from there, we're able to pick and choose which servers and databases we want to view more closely. We manage over 300 servers, and 14,000 databases. We're constantly in the tool, utilizing it to drill down and determine what is going on with a specific database and query, or cache, etc.
Senior Manager, Data Operations at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Oct 2, 2018
Our primary use case is monitoring. We use the solution to get an overview of our entire environment and then drill down to view details. We look for issues that have happened in the past, that have been reported by users. We can then see what was going on, on the server, at that time, to cause such issues. The only people who are using it are eight DBAs. We did increase usage for lower environments rather than just production environments.
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IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is designed for real-time monitoring of crucial SQL Server instances, offering insights into server performance and enabling proactive management without coding complications.IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server provides comprehensive features for monitoring and managing SQL Server environments. It offers customizable alerts and disk space projections, as well as capabilities for snapshotting and historical data analysis to detect database...
We use it to look at the overarching environment and, from there, we're able to pick and choose which servers and databases we want to view more closely. We manage over 300 servers, and 14,000 databases. We're constantly in the tool, utilizing it to drill down and determine what is going on with a specific database and query, or cache, etc.
Our primary use case is monitoring. We use the solution to get an overview of our entire environment and then drill down to view details. We look for issues that have happened in the past, that have been reported by users. We can then see what was going on, on the server, at that time, to cause such issues. The only people who are using it are eight DBAs. We did increase usage for lower environments rather than just production environments.
We use it to look at performance.