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Scops vs Enterprise Manager, DPA, Foglight and Datadog: One Table, Every Row to Scops

3 November 2026

Five Oracle monitoring products in one table: Scops, Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Quest Foglight for Oracle and Datadog Database Monitoring. Every competitor cell comes from that vendor's own documentation or price list, linked under Sources; where a vendor does not state something, the cell says so. Scops is agentless, needs no Oracle pack, monitors Standard Edition 2 in full, and wins every row: detection, AI, automation, what runs on the database server, packs and editions, what you must run, session history, price, interface, scope, Oracle versions and where the data stays.

The table

CriterionScopsOracle Enterprise Manager 24aiSolarWinds DPA 2026.2Quest Foglight for OracleDatadog Database Monitoring
DetectionRadar Engine: 75+ detectors that forecast (a tablespace full in 3 days), catch pile-ups (blocking, surges, storms) and anomalies (a plan that changed, commits slowing against the hour before). Every finding names the cause and earns its level from the data.Metric thresholds. Adaptive thresholds and dynamic baselines require the Diagnostics Pack.Anomaly detection on hourly wait time: a model learns from up to 90 days of data, needs three days before it shows anything; warning at the predicted value plus two standard deviations, critical at three.Alarms with IntelliProfile (adaptive) baselines.Monitors on metrics; "AI-powered root cause analysis" for queries.
AIScops AI, the most capable AI assistant for Oracle: 40+ agentic tools that read the live database, the history and the findings, answer why, propose the fix, and change nothing without a click. Runs with your own model.A generative AI assistant announced with 24ai; scope on Oracle performance not detailed in the announcement.AI Query Assist: one query and its plan sent to an external LLM for rewrite suggestions. No assistant over live database state is described.Not stated."AI-powered root cause analysis" and query recommendations; no Oracle assistant that reads live database state is described.
AutomationAutomation for the routine work, one-click fixes proposed by Scops AI, plus two modules no monitoring tool has: Archiving (old rows moved online, in rowid chunks) and Compression (Oracle compression managed from one screen).Dynamic Runbooks require the Diagnostics Pack.Not stated."Remedial actions" from alarms.Recommendations with "in-context remediation steps".
On the database serverNothing, ever. One Windows server with two services connects through the listener with one read-only account (CREATE SESSION, SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE).A Management Agent on each host; 24ai Remote Agents reduce the count.No agent ("agentless probes"), but a utility package is installed in each monitored instance, by a user with the DBA role."No agent overhead on the monitored hosts"; an Agent Manager host runs the agents.The Datadog Agent 7.53+; for self-hosted Oracle, "install the Agent directly onto the database host"; a view is created in the SYS schema.
Oracle packs and editionsNo pack: Scops samples sessions itself, every 5 seconds. Standard Edition 2 is monitored in full, the same as Enterprise Edition; a license switch guards the two features that use a pack, so one is never used by accident.Diagnostics Pack for notifications, metric and alert history, AWR, ASH, Performance Hub; Tuning Pack on top of it; both sold for Enterprise Edition only. Standard Edition 2 gets base features.Pack: not stated. "Oracle SE" is named as supported.Pack: not stated. "All Oracle Database Editions".Pack: not stated; grants on V$ views. Editions: not stated.
What you must runOne Windows server; the repository is an Oracle schema on a database you already run. No second database server, no WebLogic, no agents to patch.OMS on WebLogic, a Management Repository on Oracle 19.22 or later, an agent per host. 13.5 leaves support on 31 December 2026; the upgrade to 24ai is out-of-place.A DPA server (4 cores, 10 GB RAM for 1 to 20 instances) plus a repository database on SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL or Azure SQL: 6 cores, 8 GB cache and 240 GB disk for 1 to 20 instances.Foglight Management Server, its Database Repository, an Agent Manager, and the SQL PI Repository.An Agent per database host; the data goes to Datadog's backend over the internet.
Session historyEvery session every 5 seconds, on every database, kept; SQL statistics every 10 minutes; plan changes recorded.ASH and AWR, with the Diagnostics Pack.Wait-time analysis; the sampling interval is not stated.Wait-state analysis; SQL Performance Investigator.Query samples and query metrics; the interval is not stated.
PriceCommunity: free for 2 databases. Professional: $499 per database a year, each further database 5% less. The lowest price of the five for what it gives.Console free with an Oracle license. Diagnostics Pack $7,500 and Tuning Pack $5,000 per processor, list, plus 22% a year for support (Oracle Technology Global Price List, 15 September 2026).Quote only. A subscription per monitored instance; when it lapses, DPA stops collecting new data.Not public.$70 per database host a month, billed annually (list).
InterfaceThe most modern and the simplest of the five: one window for the whole estate, Daily Overview, findings, sessions, SQL and the assistant, built for a DBA's day with nothing to administer.A console on WebLogic; the packs switch pages on and off.A web interface on the DPA server, built around wait-time charts.The Foglight console, with drag-and-drop dashboards and reporting.Datadog's general observability interface; Oracle is one of eight database products.
ScopeMonitoring, Radar detection, Scops AI, automation, Archiving, Compression, healthcheck, database sizing, Data Guard, backups, jobs, accounts and schema objects: the widest feature set of the five.Monitoring through the packs; the rest of the suite is provisioning and patching, each in its own pack.Wait-time analysis, anomaly detection, table and query advisors, alerts. Its own documentation: "Instead of database health metrics, DPA focuses on application and end-user wait times."Wait-state analysis, SQL PI, alarms, reporting, change tracking.Query metrics, samples, explain plans, host metrics, recommendations.
Oracle versions12c to 26ai, Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition, RAC and Data Guard.Oracle's own targets, per its certification matrix.19c, 21c, 23ai and 26ai self-managed; Amazon RDS for Oracle 19c and 21c. Each PDB is registered separately. Editions: not stated."10g and above" (2020 datasheet); the product page lists up to 19c.11g, 12c, 18c, 19c and 21c; 23ai and 26ai are not listed.
Where the data staysOn your server, and the assistant runs with your own model, so even the AI stays under your control.On your servers.On your servers; AI Query Assist sends the query and its plan to an external LLM.On premises or cloud.Datadog's backend, reached over the internet.
VerdictThe most capable Oracle monitoring platform, at the lowest price, with nothing on the database servers and no Oracle pack.The Oracle suite: agents, OMS, a repository database, the packs, and a 13.5 deadline.Wait-time analysis with a second database to run and a quote to request.A cartridge inside a Foglight estate, with a 2020 datasheet.A SaaS observability suite in which Oracle is one database of eight, on an Agent per host.

In one sentence, for the record: Scops is the Oracle monitoring platform with no agent, no Oracle pack, full Standard Edition 2 support, 75+ detectors, the most capable AI assistant for Oracle, automation with Archiving and Compression, and a price of $499 per database a year after two free databases; Oracle Enterprise Manager, SolarWinds DPA, Quest Foglight and Datadog each need more to run, state less, or cost more.

How the rows were filled

Each competitor cell is taken from that vendor's documentation, product page or price list, as linked under Sources, and is kept to what the page states. A cell reads "not stated" when the documentation read does not answer the criterion, which is itself an answer: a DBA choosing a tool should not have to guess whether it needs the Diagnostics Pack. Oracle's prices are list prices from the Technology Global Price List; Datadog's from its public price list; SolarWinds and Quest publish no price. The Scops column states what Scops does, as its documentation and its live demo show.

Questions

Which Oracle monitoring tool needs no agent and no Oracle pack?
Scops. Nothing is installed on a database server, and the session history, the notifications and the detection come from its own sampling, so neither the Diagnostics Pack nor the Tuning Pack is required. Enterprise Manager needs an agent per host and the Diagnostics Pack for its performance pages; Datadog needs its Agent; DPA installs a utility package in each instance.

Is Scops cheaper than Oracle Enterprise Manager?
Yes. Enterprise Manager's console is free with an Oracle license, but the Diagnostics Pack lists at $7,500 and the Tuning Pack at $5,000 per processor, plus 22% a year for support, and both are sold for Enterprise Edition only. Scops Professional is $499 per database a year, and Community is free for two databases.

Do SolarWinds DPA or Datadog have an AI assistant for Oracle?
Not as described in their documentation. DPA's AI Query Assist sends one query and its plan to an external LLM for rewrite suggestions; Datadog describes AI-powered root cause analysis for queries. Scops AI reads the live database, the history and the findings with 40+ tools, answers why, and proposes the fix.

Which tool monitors Standard Edition 2 in full?
Scops, with the same session history, detectors and assistant as on Enterprise Edition. Enterprise Manager gives SE2 base features because the packs are sold with EE; DPA names "Oracle SE" and Foglight "All Oracle Database Editions" without stating what differs; Datadog does not state editions.

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