--- title: "Database monitoring is US$0–142 a month; 54% of outages cost over US$100,000" summary: "Published list prices for four database-monitoring tools, set against Uptime Institute's and ITIC's outage-cost surveys, as of September 2026." url: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/database-monitoring-what-downtime-costs-india format: Note desk: "Cloud & DevOps" published: 2026-08-27 facts_checked: 2026-09-30 author: TechBag (The TechBag Journal) tags: ["database monitoring","SolarWinds","Datadog","Redgate","Percona","New Relic","downtime","pricing"] cover: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/covers/database-monitoring-what-downtime-costs-india.png --- # Database monitoring is US$0–142 a month; 54% of outages cost over US$100,000 *Published list prices for four database-monitoring tools, set against Uptime Institute's and ITIC's outage-cost surveys, as of September 2026.* Note · Cloud & DevOps · By TechBag · Published 2026-08-27 · Facts checked 2026-09-30 · Canonical: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/database-monitoring-what-downtime-costs-india Monitoring one production database costs between nothing and US$142 a month at list price, as of September 2026.[1] One significant outage cost more than US$100,000 for 54 per cent of the operators Uptime Institute surveyed for its 2025 outage report, and more than US$1 million for 20 per cent.[7] An earlier version of this piece told a Black Friday story and quoted three case studies nobody could check. Its question still stands for an Indian IT head signing next year’s budget: is the line item worth it, and which meter are you buying? ## Four meters, one free, and a US$142 ceiling The database-monitoring market prices four different ways, and the unit matters more than the number. SolarWinds’ pricing page puts its Database category, the card behind Database Performance Analyzer and SQL Sentry, at “from US$142 per database a month” on multi-year contracts billed annually; neither product carries a list price of its own.[1] Datadog Database Monitoring is US$70 per database host a month billed annually, or US$84 on demand, with 200 normalised queries allotted per host, and it sits on top of an Infrastructure plan rather than replacing one.[2] Redgate Monitor Standard is licensed per server per year in bands of 1–4, 5–9 and 10–19 servers, however many instances a server runs, and 20 or more goes to sales; its own price table loads by script, and reseller listings put one server at US$1,164 a year, about US$97 a month.[3] [4] Percona Monitoring and Management is free under the AGPLv3 for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Valkey, with no paid edition.[5] **Figure: The free tool and the US$142 tool watch the same wait statistics; the difference is who runs it and which engines it covers** *Published list price per monitored database or host, US$ a month, annual terms where offered, September 2026* SolarWinds Database (DPA / SQL Sentry) multi-year, billed annually US$142 Redgate Monitor Standard US$1,164 a server a year, reseller list US$97 Datadog Database Monitoring US$84 on demand; needs an Infrastructure plan US$70 Percona Monitoring and Management free, AGPLv3, self-hosted US$0 | | Value (US$) | | --- | --- | | SolarWinds Database (DPA / SQL Sentry) | 142 | | Redgate Monitor Standard | 97 | | Datadog Database Monitoring | 70 | | Percona Monitoring and Management | 0 | Source: SolarWinds, Datadog and Redgate pricing pages; Percona PMM repository; Redgate figure from reseller listings, August 2025 · as of September 2026 · New Relic has no per-host meter and is left out: it bills US$0.40 per GB ingested above 100 GB free, plus per-user seats New Relic does not charge per host at all: 100 GB of ingest a month and one full-platform user free, then US$0.40 per GB plus US$49 a month for a core user or US$349 for a full-platform Pro user on an annual commitment.[6] A quiet estate with twelve engineers who want dashboards is cheap on Datadog and expensive on New Relic; the reverse estate flips it. ## What the outage costs, from two surveys that name their method 54% of operators said their most recent significant outage cost more than US$100,000 Uptime Institute, Annual Outage Analysis 2025.[7] Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis 2025, released on 6 May 2025, found that 54 per cent of respondents said their most recent significant outage cost more than US$100,000, 20 per cent said more than US$1 million, and only 9 per cent of incidents reported in 2024 were serious or severe.[7] ITIC’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey, over 1,000 firms polled from November 2023 to mid-March 2024, found an hour of downtime costs more than US$300,000 for over 90 per cent of mid-size and large enterprises, and US$1 million to over US$5 million for 41 per cent, excluding litigation and penalties.[8] Both are self-reported bands, not audited losses, and neither is India-specific; we found no Indian survey of comparable size and will not invent one. TechBag countTechBag arithmetic At list, US$100,000, the floor of Uptime’s band, buys 119 host-years of Datadog Database Monitoring (US$840 a host a year) or 58 database-years of SolarWinds’ Database card (US$1,704 a database a year): the chart’s prices times 12. An Indian invoice adds 18 per cent GST to whichever figure TechBag quotes in rupees. ## The mechanism is the same at every price Every tool in the chart watches the same three things. Wait statistics say what sessions are waiting on: locks, disk, CPU, a network round trip. Slow-query capture ranks the statements that burned the most time in the last hour and keeps their execution plans, so a plan that flipped after an index rebuild shows up as a before-and-after. Replication lag says how far a replica is behind the primary, the number that decides whether a failover loses orders. An alert fires on a threshold or a learned baseline; a DBA kills the blocking session, adds the index or pauses the batch job; the user never sees the checkout stall. What you pay for above zero is the console, the engine list, hosting of the data, and a support line. Our view Our view: a MySQL or Postgres estate with a DBA who can run a server should start with Percona and spend the saved licence on a second replica. A SQL Server estate without that DBA should price Redgate and SQL Sentry side by side and get the server count in writing, because per-server and per-instance meters diverge the moment you consolidate. Buy Datadog’s meter only if you already pay for its Infrastructure hosts. How we did this Figures as of September 2026 List prices are read from the vendors’ own pricing pages: SolarWinds (Database card), Datadog (Database Monitoring card and footnote), New Relic (plan table) and Redgate (licence unit, bands, the 20-server sales route). Redgate’s per-server figure did not render on its page and comes from reseller listings dated August 2025, so it may be stale. Percona’s licence and “no paid edition” statement are from its public repository. Monthly figures are annual list prices divided by 12, rounded to the dollar. Outage costs are the surveys’ self-reported bands; nothing is converted into rupees because no India-specific survey was found. Quest Foglight, Idera and ManageEngine are quote-only, per-instance-year or per-monitor-bundle and were left out of the chart. Spotted an error? Write to us; corrections are published at the foot of the piece. Sources 1. [SolarWinds, Pricing: Database card, from US$142 per database a month](https://www.solarwinds.com/pricing) — undated page 2. [Datadog, Pricing: Database Monitoring, US$70 per database host a month (annual) or US$84 on demand](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/?product=database-monitoring) — undated page 3. [Redgate, Redgate Monitor pricing: per server per year, bands 1–4, 5–9, 10–19; 20+ by quote](https://www.red-gate.com/products/redgate-monitor/pricing/) — undated page Price table loads by script; did not render. 4. [TrustRadius, Redgate Monitor pricing: Standard US$1,164 per server per year](https://www.trustradius.com/products/redgate-monitor/pricing) — August 2025 Reseller listing; ComponentSource lists US$1,220.67. 5. [Percona, percona/pmm repository: AGPLv3 server, Apache 2.0 client, no paid edition](https://github.com/percona/pmm) — undated page 6. [New Relic, Pricing: 100 GB free, US$0.40 per GB, US$49 core user, US$349 Pro user (annual)](https://newrelic.com/pricing) — undated page 7. [Uptime Institute, Annual Outage Analysis 2025 (released 6 May 2025), cost bands as reported by Data Center Knowledge](https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/outages/data-center-outages-decline-for-fourth-straight-year-but-issues-persist) — 19 May 2025 8. [ITIC, 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey Results, via Calyptix](https://www.calyptix.com/wp-content/uploads/Hourly-Cost-of-Downtime-ITIC.pdf) — 2024 Related on TechBag: the [SolarWinds DPA page](https://www.thetechbag.com/solarwinds/solarwinds-database-performance-analyzer) compares six database-monitoring tools on price and engines; the [databases and data tools guide](https://www.thetechbag.com/browse/devops/databases-data-tools) separates database monitoring from APM. **Disclosure.** TechBag is a software reseller: it earns a margin when a reader buys through it, including from vendors named here. The analysis is TechBag’s own; no vendor paid for or saw this piece before publication. Facts are labelled reported, TechBag count or our view. Go deeper on TechBag - [SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer](https://www.thetechbag.com/solarwinds/solarwinds-database-performance-analyzer) — six database-monitoring tools compared on price and engines - [Databases and data tools guide](https://www.thetechbag.com/browse/devops/databases-data-tools) — database monitoring vs APM, every engine and monitor covered - [Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring](https://www.thetechbag.com/datadog/datadog-infrastructure-monitoring) — the plan Database Monitoring sits on top of