Percona Monitoring and Management vs Atatus Database Monitoring

Percona Monitoring and Management9.3Visit Atatus Database Monitoring5.0Visit

Higher score Percona Monitoring and Management #1 in Database Monitoring 9.3/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Percona

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Atatus Database Monitoring #37 in Database Monitoring 5.0/10 Pricing on request · 14-day trial Free trial✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Atatus

• Percona Monitoring and Management fits best

  Free, self-hosted multi-database monitoring

• Atatus Database Monitoring fits best

  Teams wanting AI-assisted database diagnostics

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Side by side

Feature	Percona Monitoring and Management 9.3/10 Visit ↗	Atatus Database Monitoring 5.0/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.3	5.0
Ranking	#1 in Database Monitoring	#37 in Database Monitoring
Best for	Free, self-hosted multi-database monitoring	Teams wanting AI-assisted database diagnostics
Pricing model	Free	Paid
Starting price	Free plan	Pricing on request · 14-day trial
Free plan	✓ (best)	—
Free trial	—	14 days
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web, Linux	Web
Features Percona Monitoring and Management 3/3 · Atatus Database Monitoring 3/3
Query profiling	✓	✓
Wait and lock analysis	✓	✓
Execution plans	✓	✓
Specs
Supported databases	MySQL and variants (Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB), MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Valkey/Redis; also Amazon RDS/Aurora, Azure Database, Google Cloud SQL	MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, MariaDB, Oracle
Deployment model	Hybrid	Hybrid
Data retention	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Free and open-source with hybrid deployment options Deep query profiling, execution plans, and wait/lock analysis Supports databases, cloud services, proxies, and infrastructure monitoring	AI-assisted execution-plan analysis and optimization recommendations Deadlock, lock-wait, and concurrency-bottleneck investigation Monitoring across nine relational and NoSQL database technologies
Cons	Self-hosted operation requires PMM Server and distributed PMM Clients Backup and restore are specified for MySQL and MongoDB Some advanced query analysis is specified specifically for MongoDB	Pricing requires a sales conversation No free plan is available Evaluation is limited to a 14-day trial
Our verdict	Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source observability, monitoring, and management platform for database administrators and DevOps teams. It combines database-specific dashboards, performance metrics, Query Analytics,… Read the review →	Atatus Database Monitoring is a component of the Atatus observability platform for development, operations, and reliability teams. It focuses on query-level visibility and database health, capturing slow queries, execution plans, wait… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Percona Monitoring and Management — where it wins

  • Free and open-source with hybrid deployment options
  • Deep query profiling, execution plans, and wait/lock analysis
  • Supports databases, cloud services, proxies, and infrastructure monitoring

  Where it doesn't

  • Self-hosted operation requires PMM Server and distributed PMM Clients
  • Backup and restore are specified for MySQL and MongoDB
  • Some advanced query analysis is specified specifically for MongoDB

• Atatus Database Monitoring — where it wins

  • AI-assisted execution-plan analysis and optimization recommendations
  • Deadlock, lock-wait, and concurrency-bottleneck investigation
  • Monitoring across nine relational and NoSQL database technologies

  Where it doesn't

  • Pricing requires a sales conversation
  • No free plan is available
  • Evaluation is limited to a 14-day trial

• Percona Monitoring and Management9.3/10 · Free plan

  A free, self-hosted choice for deep monitoring across databases, queries, and infrastructure.

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• Atatus Database Monitoring5.0/10 · Pricing on request · 14-day trial

  AI-assisted diagnostics for slow queries, waits, deadlocks, and database health.

  Visit AtatusFull verdict →