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Woodler SMT

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What is Woodler SMT?

  • SQL Server Monitoring & Performance Tuning tool designed by in-the-field performance tuners for administrators, developers, and tuners
  • Data-driven root cause analysis ideal for root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Interpretation of collected data with advanced descriptions and sharing options.
  • Offers a high-level overview and deep internal metrics allowing the resolution of the toughest challenges.
  • Recommended to use it during the deep-dive tuning phase
  • Accessible by Customer‘s internal team and Woodler team(optional)
  • Useful in the development/testing phase of the applications (A/B analysis)
  • Running in 7x24 always on mode
  • Automated alerting and notification
  • From a recording of tuning changes on the server to specialized tools for daily management and development.
  • Reports connecting different metrics into singular pieces for better troubleshooting overview
  • It enables users to compare and measure the impact of future changes and optimizations on the system
Where could SMT help?
  • Proper SQL Server configuration
  • Index consolidation: to speedup database modification operations and maintenance
  • Reconfiguration of index objects: to provide a more concurrent environment and less fragmented databases
  • Optimize database transaction logs: to speed up transaction processing
  • Leveraging baseline monitoring, users can:
  • Recommend new indexes to improve the overall performance of queries executed on the server
  • Perform query tuning for top intensive/resource-consuming operations on the server
  • Feature tuning for user most application exposed operations
  • Recommend database code refactoring if possible (depending on database and application type)
  • Further tuning of database maintenance operations based on historic runtime data

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Woodler SMT Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Woodler SMT has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Virtualization support

    Root cause analysis for virtual platforms like VMWare or Hyper-V

    Category average: 0

  • Historical trend data

    Historical trends and anomalies for SQL tuning

    Category average: 0

  • Performance dashboard

    Dashboard displays consolidated data with drill-down capability

    Category average: 0

Areas for Improvement

  • Top SQL

    Details about any long-running or high impact statements

    Category average: 0

  • Intelligent alerting

    Customizable alerts and reports indicating outlier values from baseline

    Category average: 0

Woodler SMT Reviews

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Woodler SMT review from SQL developer

Vladimír MužnýView profile
Owner, Developer at DROPMAN s.r.o. (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Very self-explainable user interface
  • 24/7 assistance from SQL professionals
  • Great insights into a behavior of each SQL Server instance in a company

Cons

  • Too [much] information for [inexperienced] users (but this is [a] very common issue with SQL Server and its monitoring)

Return on Investment

  • It saves the time of troubleshooting
  • It increases user's satisfaction with products relaying on SQL Server's performance

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Woodler SMT Review from User and Manager

Martin MervartView profile
IT Data Manager in Information Technology at Direct Parcel Distribution CZ s.r.o. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • It contains all the diagnostics information that you need for optimization of queries, deep analysis of SQL server state, and much more
  • Regular deployment of a new versions with minor fixes but mainly with the new features.
  • It helps to make operational decisions, how to improve the performance and also expansion of the whole environment.
  • Buying this also contains excellent service from the Woodler support.

Cons

  • There is a lot of information and if you want to exploit it for 100%, you need some basic SQL administration knowledge at least. Maybe some "Lite" version with KPI's and warnings for some smaller companies would be appreciated.
  • Some deep searching and some screens are a little bit confusing for the first time and you need to put the things into consequences to get the final result.

Return on Investment

  • Revealed many problems with third party applications and their databases.
  • Instead of buying new versions of an app, you can optimize it.
  • By using SMT, we have prevented many situations and outages in advance.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Impressive "deep dive" SQL monitor

Michal KubicaView profile
MS SQL Server / Data Platform Consultant in Information Technology at BOHEMIA ENERGY (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Web interface
  • Detailed performance metrics in time series graphs.
  • Logical groups of metrics, easy to find the metric you want.
  • Alerting system
  • Tuning tracking, tuning notes
  • Automatic actualization

Cons

  • Sysadmin access to your system.
  • Consumes disk capacity on monitored server to store all the data.

Return on Investment

  • Quick reactions on problems.
  • SQL performance problems root cause analysis.
  • Increased DBAs productivity in daily operations.
  • Time saver

Alternatives Considered

SQL Sentry, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and Redgate SQL Monitor

Other Software Used

System Center Operations Manager

Woodler SMT is a powerful tool for SQL Server

John Tecu
IT Operations Project Manager in Information Technology at Frontiers Media SA (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • SQL Server monitoring
  • SQL Server performance tuning
  • SQL Server root cause analysis
  • Assistance from SQL professionals

Cons

  • The date filters are working differently than other similar apps, but easy to use after understanding how it works

Return on Investment

  • Definitely it had a positive impact after identifying and solving some performance issue in some databases
  • Very good support from Woodler team

Alternatives Considered

SQL Sentry

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