Best Database Performance Tuning Tools

Compare the Top Database Performance Tuning Tools as of April 2025

What are Database Performance Tuning Tools?

Database performance tuning tools are software tools that optimize database performance and efficiency. They analyze query execution, indexing, and resource utilization to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements. These tools often provide real-time monitoring, performance diagnostics, and automated recommendations to enhance speed and reduce latency. They support a wide range of databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and cloud-based systems, ensuring optimal resource usage. By using these tools, businesses can improve application responsiveness, reduce downtime, and maintain a high-performing data environment. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Performance Tuning tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    New Relic

    New Relic

    New Relic

    There are an estimated 25 million engineers in the world across dozens of distinct functions. As every company becomes a software company, engineers are using New Relic to gather real-time insights and trending data about the performance of their software so they can be more resilient and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only New Relic provides an all-in-one platform that is built and sold as a unified experience. With New Relic, customers get access to a secure telemetry cloud for all metrics, events, logs, and traces; powerful full-stack analysis tools; and simple, transparent usage-based pricing with only 2 key metrics. New Relic has also curated one of the industry’s largest ecosystems of open source integrations, making it easy for every engineer to get started with observability and use New Relic alongside their other favorite applications.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler GmbH

    Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring software solution developed by Paessler. Equipped with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with a cutting-edge monitoring engine, PRTG optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs). The solution is packed with specialized monitoring features that include flexible alerting, cluster failover solution, distributed monitoring, in-depth reporting, maps and dashboards, and more. PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure. All important technologies are supported: • SNMP: ready-to-use and custom options • WMI and Windows Performance Counters • SSH: for Linux/Unix and macOS systems • Traffic analysis using flow protocols or packet sniffing • HTTP requests • REST APIs returning XML or JSON • Ping, SQL, and many more
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    Starting Price: $2149 for PRTG 500
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    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, best-of-breed, open source database monitoring and management solution. It helps enterprises reduce complexity and simplify management, while optimizing performance and improving the security of your business-critical database environments, no matter where they are located - on-premises or in the cloud. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible. PMM allows you to identify the issues that impact your business, fast! Our single platform simplifies management and reduces complexity. It helps you optimize your database by allowing you to easily find, fix, and prevent issues with scaling, bottlenecks and potential outages. Our innovative tools improve data security and reduce your risk of data exposure. PMM is used by thousands of organizations around the globe to manage their complex database environments.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    ManageEngine Applications Manager
    ManageEngine Applications Manager is an enterprise-ready platform designed to monitor an entire application ecosystem of a business organization. Our platform helps IT and DevOps teams get visibility into all the dependent components within their application stack. With Applications Manager, it becomes easier to monitor the performance of mission-critical web applications, web servers, databases, cloud services, middleware, ERP systems, messaging components, and more. It has tons of features that fast-track the troubleshooting process and help reduce MTTR. This way, issues are fixed before application end-users are affected. Applications Manager has a fully functional dashboard that can be customized to get performance insights at a glance. By configuring alerts, it constantly keeps a lookout for performance issues within the application stack. Combining this with intelligent machine learning, Applications Manager helps turn performance data into actionable insights.
    Starting Price: $395.00/Year
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    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.
    Starting Price: $11 per month
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    SolarWinds Observability SaaS
    SaaS-delivered Observability built to extend visibility across cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid technology stacks. SolarWinds Observability SaaS delivers unified and comprehensive visibility for cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid custom and commercial applications to help ensure optimal service levels and user satisfaction with key business services. For internally written and commercial applications. Unified code-level troubleshooting with transaction tracing, code-profiling, and exception tracking combined with end user experience insights through synthetic and real user monitoring. Deep database performance monitoring. Increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings by offering full visibility into open-source databases including MySQL®, PostgreSQL®, MongoDB®, Azure® SQL, Amazon Aurora®, and Redis®.
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    IBM Instana
    IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify. With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn. IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need. Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.
    Starting Price: $75 per month
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    PawSQL

    PawSQL

    PawSQL

    PawSQL integrates the best practices of query optimization in database industry, provides advanced SQL rewrite optimization, and sophisticate index recommendation capabilities for slow queries. Based on the professional PawSQL optimization engine (used by more than 10,000 database practitioners around the world), it provides rich SQL optimization suggestions and intelligent index recommendations. PawSQL provides a comprehensive and balanced audit rule set for multiple databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, openGauss, Oracle, etc., providing enterprises with a consistent audit experience no matter how diverse their database environment is. Rule-based SQL review, covering potential correctness and performance optimization issues. Rich rewrite optimization, recommending semantically equivalent but more efficient SQL queries. Cost-based verification ensures that new solutions based on SQL rewrite and index recommendation have better performance. Intelligent index recommendation.
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    OtterTune

    OtterTune

    OtterTune

    Choosing from 100s of database tuning knobs is no problem for our AI. Let it do the work for you so you can have your life back. Monitor your database performance to gain insights and automatically adjust your configuration as workloads change. Built for today’s cloud databases, OtterTune doesn’t touch any user data, but fine-tunes your DBaaS operations behind the scenes. OtterTune is not just a fancy frontend to a few tools - but a revolutionary machine learning and machine training platform that makes the database backend run in the best possible scenario, now and in the future. OtterTune uses machine learning to actively tune your database. Simply select a target objective to optimize (e.g., throughput, latency, cost) and OtterTune automatically updates 100+ configuration settings to improve that target. Don't get surprised by outages or performance drops. OtterTune monitors your database and collects metrics about your workload.
    Starting Price: $550/per month
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    Releem

    Releem

    Releem

    Releem is an AI-powered MySQL performance monitoring tool that delivers consistent performance through continuous database profiling, configuration tuning, and SQL query optimization. Releem automates analysis, performance issues detection, configuration tuning, query optimization and schema control to save you time and improve MySQL performance. Here’s what makes us different from other database performance monitoring and management solutions: 📊 Quick and simple to use with all the metrics displayed on one page 🚀 Adaptive configuration tuning 🎯 Automatic SQL query optimization 🤘 Rapid identification of slow queries 🛡️ All databases data is safe, Releem Agent doesn’t use data from your databases 🔀 Releem supported all versions of MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona, whether installed on-premise or on AWS RDS 👐 Open-source Releem Agent with the code available on GitHub How does it work? It works like monitoring system with the active agent installed on the database server.
    Starting Price: Free
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    MongoDB Atlas
    The most innovative cloud database service on the market, with unmatched data distribution and mobility across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built-in automation for resource and workload optimization, and so much more. MongoDB Atlas is the global cloud database service for modern applications. Deploy fully managed MongoDB across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with best-in-class automation and proven practices that guarantee availability, scalability, and compliance with the most demanding data security and privacy standards. The best way to deploy, run, and scale MongoDB in the cloud. MongoDB Atlas offers built-in security controls for all your data. Enable enterprise-grade features to integrate with your existing security protocols and compliance standards. With MongoDB Atlas, your data is protected with preconfigured security features for authentication, authorization, encryption, and more.
    Starting Price: $0.08/hour
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    Redgate SQL Toolbelt
    The industry-standard tools for SQL Server development & deployment. Redgate's SQL Toolbelt contains 13 industry-standard products for SQL Server development, backup, and monitoring. Together, they make you productive, your team agile, and your data safe. Thousands of SQL Server professionals rely on the SQL Toolbelt every day, because it's reliable, easy to use, and plugs in to tools they already use for application development. View a full history of changes, including who changed what, when, and why. Explore changes made by your colleagues with SQL Compare Pro. Share changes with the rest of your team using SQL Source Control. View a full history of changes, including who changed what, when, and why. See the direct impact of your deployment on your SQL Server performance when using any of the deployment tools within the SQL Toolbelt. Releases with SQL Compare or SQL Change Automation are marked in SQL Monitor next to key performance metrics.
    Starting Price: $3665
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    EverSQL

    EverSQL

    EverSQL

    EverSQL is the fastest way to optimize your PostgreSQL & MySQL databases automatically. It's used by over 100,000 engineers as a PostgreSQL & MySQL optimizer, to optimize SQL queries. Our customers report their queries are 25X faster on average, just minutes after getting started. Save your team 140 weekly hours on average by optimizing your SQL queries online for free. EverSQL is 100% non-intrusive, and doesn't access any of your databases' sensitive data. Choose your database type, the platform, and submit a query for optimization. Then, install the performance sensor for ongoing performance insights. Smart AI-based algorithms will optimize your PostgreSQL and MySQL queries by automatically re-writing and indexing them. EverSQL will tell you exactly what changed and how the magic works. EverSQL's non-intrusive sensor will monitor your PostgreSQL and MySQL databases performance on an ongoing basis, generate optimization insights that are quick and easy to understand and implement.
    Starting Price: $129 per month
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