AimBetter

The tool to fix your SQL

Pros:

Aimbetter ease of use and analysis of the SQL performance, keys, indexes and insight is the best. We have managed to optimize our software, monitoring the system is easier, the above helped us scale our system with ease of mind.

Cons:

Nothing, the current version is working amazing!

Complete monitoring portal, full of metrics for real time status check and historical investigation

Comments: Aimbetter console can be customized in alarm thresholds by You or Support Team to satisfy specific customer needs; this monitoring tool is quite complex and needs some time to clearly understand all metrics, but after a few hours of console utilization You have a complete and clear comprehension of what happens into Your databases: user activities, slow queries, deadlocks, blocking queries, bottlenecks, tempdb utilization, resource utilization, etc.
Agent sends all the metrics captured to a remote server in cloud that preserve them for a long time; this permits to monitor from console real time events or historical events, for example during night or weekend, batch or maintenance activity, and to compare the same metric between two different time sample to understand its time trend evolution.

Pros:

My team choosed this tool to monitor a complex environment made of more than one hundred of databases allocated on a few SQL Server clustered istances that suffered many problems at the beginning. This tool is based on a SaaS solution in Cloud, so one single Aimbetter agent was installed on a third machine to monitor all these instances. Just after a couple of days of Aimbetter monitoring we were in condition to identify and classify hundreds of problems into our databases: syntax errors, security issues, bottlenecks, tempdb overload, deadlocks, etc.; we divided them in groups and forwaded one part to developers, the other to Database Administrators. Solved inital problems, now we are able to monitor in real time our instances and to analyze, troubleshoot and solve emerging problems a few time after an alarm reported by this tool.

Cons:

Into the console You will find two main sections: one is a dashboard useful for monitoring health status with alert and alarms, the other goes deeply into many specific areas of investigation, collecting a lot of parameters and their evolution; a little more attention to a cross drill down between alarms and metrics analysis could help to investigate faster and more clear.

AimBetter Experience

Comments: Easy to use, very structured, long data loading times.

Pros:

I liked the organized structure, easy to use, user friendly - not complicated

Cons:

I didn't liked the performance. It takes a long time for the data to load.

The perfect system to help IT on DBA and infrastructure

Comments: Using this service for so many years give me peace of mind. Any person in my IT department is using the system for his needs. Easy to understand. Show you the problems and most of the time the cuase

Pros:

The information is very clear. You get the information alert to your mail and easyly log to the system and get a clear picture of the problem.

Cons:

The configuration of the allerts is not that easy.We have to get help from the support team.

System review frfom Team3 LTD

Comments: Data Base prformance monitoring
System resource monitoring
Detection of general problems (slowness, lack of memory, lack of storage space ..)

Pros:

User Friendly Identifying problems easily and quickly Clear dashboard

Cons:

Zoom in to the event directly from the dashboard