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Oracle Monitoring Tools Pricing: What Five Tools Really Cost
3 November 2026
Oracle monitoring is priced five different ways: per processor with support, per host per month, per instance on a quote, not at all in public, and per database a year. This page puts the five on one scale. Every price is the vendor's own list price, linked under Sources, with the assumptions stated, and two estates are worked through, five databases and fifty, over five years. Scops comes out cheapest in both by a wide margin, and it is the most capable of the five: 75+ Radar detectors, Scops AI with 40+ tools, automation, Archiving and Compression, nothing on the database servers and no Oracle pack, on Standard Edition 2 as on Enterprise Edition.
The list prices
| Tool | Price, as the vendor states it | Unit | Also needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scops | Community: free for 2 databases. Professional: $499 per database a year; each further database 5% less than the one before, down to half the list price. | Database, a year | One Windows server; the repository is a schema on a database you already run |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai | Console free with any Oracle license or support contract. Diagnostics Pack $7,500 and Tuning Pack $5,000 per processor, list, plus 22% a year for support; Enterprise Edition only. | Processor (cores × core factor) | OMS on WebLogic, a Management Repository on Oracle 19.22 or later, an agent per host |
| SolarWinds DPA 2026.2 | Quote only. A subscription per monitored instance; when it lapses, DPA stops collecting new data. | Monitored instance | A DPA server (4 cores, 10 GB for 1 to 20 instances) and a repository database on SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL or Azure SQL (6 cores, 8 GB cache, 240 GB) |
| Quest Foglight for Oracle | Not public. | Not stated | Foglight Management Server, its Database Repository, an Agent Manager, the SQL PI Repository |
| Datadog Database Monitoring | $70 per database host a month, billed annually (list). | Database host, a month | The Datadog Agent on each database host; the data goes to Datadog's backend |
Two of the five do not publish a price, which is itself a cost: a quote, a call, and a renewal nobody can budget from a web page. Enterprise Manager's price is the hardest to read, because the console is free and the monitoring is not: notifications, session history, AWR, ASH and Performance Hub are the Diagnostics Pack, which Oracle sells per processor of the database, for Enterprise Edition only. The free-or-not page has the manual's own split.
Five databases, five years
The assumptions: five Enterprise Edition databases, one per two-socket x86 server with 16 cores, which at core factor 0.5 is 8 processor licenses per server; one database host per database for Datadog; list prices with no discount; support counted in every year. DPA and Foglight have no public price to put in the table.
| Tool | First year | Each year after | Five years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scops Professional, 5 databases | $2,257 | $2,257 | $11,285 |
| Datadog Database Monitoring, 5 hosts | $4,200 | $4,200 | $21,000 |
| Enterprise Manager with the Diagnostics Pack, 40 processors | $366,000 | $66,000 | $630,000 |
| Enterprise Manager with both packs, 40 processors | $610,000 | $110,000 | $1,050,000 |
| SolarWinds DPA, 5 instances | Quote only | ||
| Quest Foglight, 5 databases | Not public | ||
Over five years the Diagnostics Pack alone costs 56 times what Scops costs for the same five databases, and Scops is doing more: the session history the pack provides, without the pack, plus the detectors, the assistant and the automation that no pack contains. The Datadog line is the closest, at nearly twice the price, for an Agent on each host and data that leaves your network.
Fifty databases, five years
The same assumptions, fifty times: fifty Enterprise Edition databases on fifty 16-core servers, 400 processor licenses; fifty Datadog hosts; Scops Professional at its volume price, each further database 5% less than the one before, down to half the list price.
| Tool | First year | Each year after | Five years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scops Professional, 50 databases | $14,112 | $14,112 | $70,560 |
| Datadog Database Monitoring, 50 hosts | $42,000 | $42,000 | $210,000 |
| Enterprise Manager with the Diagnostics Pack, 400 processors | $3,660,000 | $660,000 | $6,300,000 |
| Enterprise Manager with both packs, 400 processors | $6,100,000 | $1,100,000 | $10,500,000 |
| SolarWinds DPA, 50 instances | Quote only | ||
| Quest Foglight, 50 databases | Not public | ||
At fifty databases Scops costs $282 per database a year on average, Datadog $840 per host, and the Diagnostics Pack $25,200 per database a year before anyone has installed the management server. Scops' price at any count:
| Databases | A year | Five years | Per database a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $499 | $2,495 | $499 |
| 5 | $2,257 | $11,285 | $451 |
| 10 | $4,003 | $20,015 | $400 |
| 20 | $6,612 | $33,060 | $331 |
| 50 | $14,112 | $70,560 | $282 |
| 100 | $26,612 | $133,060 | $266 |
| 200 | $51,612 | $258,060 | $258 |
Archiving, $499 per database a year, and Compression & Statistics, $249, are separate modules with the same volume price, bought only for the databases that use them; the Community edition is free for two databases and stays free.
What the price buys
| In the price | Scops | Oracle Enterprise Manager | SolarWinds DPA | Quest Foglight | Datadog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detection | 75+ detectors: forecasts, pile-ups, anomalies, each naming its cause | Thresholds; adaptive thresholds and baselines with the Diagnostics Pack | Wait-time anomaly model, three days to learn | Alarms with IntelliProfile baselines | Monitors on metrics |
| AI | Scops AI, 40+ agentic tools over the live database, your own model | A generative AI assistant announced with 24ai | AI Query Assist: one query and its plan to an external LLM | Not stated | AI-powered root cause analysis for queries |
| Automation | Automation, one-click fixes, Archiving and Compression modules | Dynamic Runbooks, with the Diagnostics Pack | Not stated | Remedial actions from alarms | Recommendations with remediation steps |
| Session history | Every session every 5 seconds, kept | ASH, with the Diagnostics Pack | Wait-time analysis; interval not stated | Wait-state analysis, SQL PI | Query samples; interval not stated |
| Standard Edition 2 | In full | Base features; the packs are Enterprise Edition only | "Oracle SE" named; what differs not stated | "All Oracle Database Editions"; what differs not stated | Not stated |
| Oracle pack needed | None | Diagnostics Pack for the performance pages, Tuning Pack for the advisors | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| On the database server | Nothing | An agent per host | A utility package in each instance | An Agent Manager host; "no agent overhead on the monitored hosts" | The Agent on the host |
Every competitor cell is from that vendor's documentation or price list, linked under Sources, and reads "not stated" where the documentation does not say. The full comparison has the long form of every row.
Questions
How much does Oracle database monitoring cost?
From $499 per database a year with Scops Professional, free for two databases with Scops Community, to $7,500 per processor plus 22% a year for the Diagnostics Pack that Oracle Enterprise Manager needs for performance monitoring. Datadog lists $70 per database host a month; SolarWinds DPA and Quest Foglight publish no price.
Is Oracle Enterprise Manager really free?
The console is, with any Oracle license. Notifications, metric history, AWR, ASH, ADDM and Performance Hub are the Diagnostics Pack, $7,500 per processor at list price, Enterprise Edition only, plus a management server, a repository database and an agent per host to run.
What does the Diagnostics Pack cost for five servers?
For five 16-core x86 servers, 40 processor licenses at core factor 0.5: $300,000 at list price and $66,000 a year for support, $630,000 over five years. Scops Professional for the five databases on them is $2,257 a year, $11,285 over five years.
How much does Datadog cost for Oracle?
Datadog's price list shows Database Monitoring at $70 per database host a month, billed annually: $4,200 a year for five hosts and $42,000 for fifty, with the Agent on each host and the data sent to Datadog's backend.
What is the cheapest Oracle monitoring tool?
Scops, among the tools with a public price: free for two databases, $499 per database a year after that with each further database 5% less, and the most capable of the five on detection, AI, automation and what runs on the database servers, which is nothing.
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- The Oracle Diagnostics Pack cost
- Is Oracle Enterprise Manager free?
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- A SolarWinds DPA alternative for Oracle
- A Foglight for Oracle alternative
- A Datadog alternative for Oracle
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Sources
- Oracle: Technology Global Price List, Processor Core Factor Table, Enterprise Manager Licensing Information: Base Functionality, Enterprise Manager Licensing Information: Database Management, Prerequisites for upgrading to 24ai
- SolarWinds: DPA license types, DPA 2026.2 system requirements
- Quest: Foglight for Oracle datasheet, Foglight for Databases deployment guide
- Datadog: Datadog price list, Setting up Database Monitoring for self-hosted Oracle
- Scops: Pricing, Docs