--- title: DBmarlin Reviews meta\_title: 'DBmarlin Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how DBmarlin works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 18 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # DBmarlin Reviews & Product Details Visit Website DBmarlin is database monitoring for modern architectures and teams. It helps customers to optimise their database performance by providing deep visibility and wide support for both on-prem and cloud databases. It also understands change and the performance impact and can integrate and add value to existing tools. In short, DBmarlin ensures your databases run fast and stay fast. You can get started for free. * * * Product Website DBmarlin Seller [Application Performance Ltd](https://www.g2.com/sellers/application-performance-ltd) Discussions [DBmarlin Community](https://www.g2.com/products/application-performance-ltd-dbmarlin/discuss) Overview by Mick McGuinness (Co-founder and application performance specialist at AP) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![IBM Instana](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Instana") IBM Instana 4.4/5(481) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/application-performance-ltd-dbmarlin/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 18 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Matt P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Matt P.") MP Matt P. QA Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/17/2024 "Missing link in continuous Database monitoring" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? Very easy to install by DBA team. Marlin monitors everything that happens on database from DB engine perspective, e.g.: waits replication queries queries run by single users schema changes index rebuilds index creation DBMarlin goes deep down to table level to see the exact locking or waiting statement from which the locked table could be determined Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? Data retention could be longer GUI performance could be better - probably depends heavily on onprem server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? Looking for locking statements and alerting on long wait time in databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Tom T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tom T.") TT Tom T. Technical Account Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/29/2024 "Top Tier DB Monitoring" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? Simple, yet very powerful design Dedicated and responsive team behind the product Many ways of integrating in your workflows Transparent and easy pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? Not much, it does what it promises, maybe a saas version would be cool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? Execution plans Top queries SQL stats, comparison and explore Wait events =\> involved root cause analaysis and query optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Hok Sum C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hok Sum C.") HC Hok Sum C. AI OPS Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/30/2024 "A good solution for DB administrators to maintain multiple databases" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? It is easy to use and has a clear user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? Integrate with AI solution to provide more tunning insight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? It assists us to solve and find the potential DBs performance issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic BC Bart C. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/6/2023 "Superb collaboration" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? DBMarlin is a great tool to get an overall picture of the health of a database. With a few clicks you can check in great detail where the bottlenecks are. The excellent help pages also try to offer you a solution already. At least they give you a direction on where to look. What is also great about the product is the very close cooperation. Questions are answered very quickly and if help is needed for example when setting up a demo. In no time everything is ready and explained to the hilt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? There are no items from DBmarlin that I dislike. Some items cannot yet be checked with DBmarlin. But if you indicate this to the DBmarlin-team they will take your suggestion seriously. It will be reviewed and if indeed useful, added to the code. The feedback on why or why not is also always clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? Using DBmarlin, we have already surfaced a number of slow queries and were able to modify them. As a result, the application reacts much smoother with the result that end users have a better experience with the product and stay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Damir W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Damir W.") DW Damir W. Senior DB2 Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/21/2022 "A New Way of Monitoring DB2 Performance" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? The "Database Activities" timeline lets you view precisely when each query was executed on your monitored system and how many times. Within the "Statement Chart" view, SQL statements are colour-coded for more straightforward analysis. Drilling down into each SQL statement gives you even more data, for example, the statement Execution Plan, where the statement was executed from (Client names) and by whom (DB user names), etc. The new SQL Stats Explorer feature provides information on the most expensive SQL statements based on different, selectable criteria (such as rows read, CPU time, wait time, etc.). It can be instrumental in spotting SQL that is out of scope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? Some missing features would be more than nice to have - for example, a "Current Activities" view showing what is happening in the database right now - SQL statements in progress and other essential database metrics (bufferpool stats, table/tablespace activity, active locks, etc.). But, as the tool is very young in the DB2 world, it keeps getting updates - new functionalities - frequently and is on an excellent path to becoming The Tool to turn to in times of crisis, but also for everyday monitoring and proactive database tuning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? DBMarlin is very helpful in pointing out the "most expensive" SQL (based on different criteria), which is usually the first step in finding the SQL performance bottlenecks, followed by the actual query tuning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic JC Jake C. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/19/2023 "Delivers the insights we had been sorely lacking" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? Analyzes query performance so that even a non-DBA can understand. Huge wealth of information can be found in the incredibly complete documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? No downsides I can think of. It's not a tool you are likely to become an expert with out of the box but the learning curve is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? DBmarlin is helping us tune queries that initially worked well but that now need to be tuned to handle larger data volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Dr. Michael C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dr. Michael C.") DC Dr. Michael C. Advisory Board Member Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/18/2022 "Band is Back Together with an even better Product" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? I have had the pleasure of working with 3 generations of DBA products from this team. DBMarlin is their latest and greatest. When we have performance issues this product gets right to the heart of the matter quickly. It does not matter if its Oracle, SQL Server or MYSQL, it works as intended every time. One Product, you pick the database. Best part, the product is not a performance drain on the system when you use it. The interface is easy to use. They have built a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? That we did not start using it sooner. I have not had anything I found that I did not like about the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? We use it to troubleshoot performance issues and to gather baselines of our internal systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jonathan L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jonathan L.") JL Jonathan L. Trustee Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/25/2022 "DBmarlin helps us optimise our database performance" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? DBmarlin has all the key features you'd expect from a DB tuning product but is exceptionally easy to use; this allowed us to identify performance issues right from the very start - without having to fight the tools! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? We haven't found any real downside yet. When we've had questions, DBmarlin's support has been exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? We use DBmarlin as part of day-to-day database optimisation and maintenance activities. On the odd occasion when we've had an application performance issue, DBmarlin has helped identify the cause quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic GD gabriele d. DBA Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/12/2022 "Great product" 5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? The chance to monitor both my production SQL Server and PostgreSQL. There aren't many software that can manage the monitoring of PosgreSQL so good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? The free version let you manage only one DBMS , in the other hand this in fair Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DBmarlin: the free version is sufficient if you work in a small company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? No problems, the main benefit is that it gives you a first and brief glance at state of the art in your DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/22/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/18/2022 "Great tool for performance monitoring of your databases" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DBmarlin? It is very easy to set up and it takes very little time to get you going. After a short period of time you already have good look on what is going on in your database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DBmarlin? There are still some things missing in the tool, but the contact with the team is so good that already almost all our remarks/suggestions have been taken into account in newer versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DBmarlin solving and how is that benefiting you? Working for a management services company we have to deal with a lot of databases of a lot of customers. Performance-tuning is a big thing with a lot of them and using DBMarlin helped me already a lot with fixing issues at several customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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