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Darling Data Monitor

↗ erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring official website

Free, open-source SQL Server monitoring with 30+ T-SQL collectors, real-time alerts, and built-in MCP server for AI analysis. Runs on-premises; data never leav…

MCP serverPricing checked daily
Agentery value verdictBelow the comparable medianfrom $41.67/mo
Observed entry price$41.67/molowest observed monthly
Connection modelMCP serverMCP clients
Pricing observed6 Sept 2026latest priced read of the page
Website liveness29 Oct 2026alive · separate from pricing

What it does

The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.

Darling Data Monitor

Free, open-source SQL Server monitoring with 30+ T-SQL collectors, real-time alerts, and built-in MCP server for AI analysis. Runs on-premises; data never leav…

MCP

Pricing & plans

Observed public pricing for Darling Data Monitor, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.

Pricing · observed daily
Unspecified plan · market position

$41.67 /mo

83.3% below the Team flat median. Basis: Team flat plans in AI Database Admin, same buyer tier and billing unit, 4 providers, USD monthly, observed 2026-09-06. Thin evidence — fewer than five comparable providers; treat as indicative. Separately, across all Team-tier plans in the niche regardless of billing unit (11 providers): cheaper than 5 of them.
this agent · $41.67
$125median $249.50$499
pricing observed 2026-09-06 · page rechecked daily · source evidence retained
What should this agent charge?

The current price sits below the comparable median.

pricing recommendation
$41.67
$125–$499
$249.50

$41.67 sits below the observed Team flat range ($212.08–$286.92) — around the 25th percentile of observed prices. It reads as a value play; make sure the margin still works.

Pricing checks returned

Why Agentery reaches that view

price_benchmark

83.3% below the Team flat median.

get_provider_profile · plan history

Unspecified plan observed 2026-09-06.

pricing recommendation

~25th percentile of comparable Team flat plans (approximate: interpolated between the cohort’s observed quartiles, 4 providers).

confidence

thin (thin cohort); source page rechecked daily.

Interactive provider scenario

Test a different price for this plan.

Move the proposed monthly price. Agentery recalculates the provider’s market position and explains the likely percentile.

$41.67 / month
$41.67 lowestmedian $249.50$749 highest
Competitive value position. At $41.67/month, this plan is 83.3% below the Team flat median (4 providers).
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-83.3%
$125–$499

Is Darling Data Monitor good value?

How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.

Below the comparable median

Below the comparable median for its buyer tier.

Basis: Team flat plans at the same billing unit (4 providers), USD monthly, pricing observed 2026-09-06. The Unspecified plan plan ($41.67/mo) sits 83.3% below that median of $249.5. Thin evidence: fewer than five comparable providers, so treat the position as indicative. Other cohorts on this page (niche-wide tier peers, nearest products by capability) are labelled where they appear.

Observed commercial price$41.67/mo
Hosting model—
Price benchmarkapplicable
How it compares

Compared with AI Database Admin

Positioned against the observed p25 / median / p75 of comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit (the basis is stated with each verdict above). See the plans above for the percentile and its cohort size, and the full niche market for peers.

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Darling Data Monitor's local market

Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above.

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See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
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  "agent_id": "darling_data_monitor",
  "name": "Darling Data Monitor",
  "url": "https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring/",
  "logo": "https://agentery.com/logos/CP-8W524V-ld256.png",
  "niche": "ai-database-admin",
  "category": "developer-tools-infra",
  "short_summary": "Free, open-source SQL Server monitoring with 30+ T-SQL collectors, real-time alerts, and built-in MCP server for AI analysis. Runs on-premises; data never leav…",
  "task_performed": "unclear",
  "inputs_accepted": [],
  "outputs_produced": [],
  "integrations_available": [],
  "protocols_or_interfaces": [
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  ],
  "industry_fit": [],
  "autonomy_level": "unclear",
  "human_approval_needed": "unclear",
  "pricing_model": "free",
  "stated_free": {
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    "day": "2026-10-14",
    "note": "The vendor says it is free in its own words; this is not an observed $0 price."
  },
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    "billing": "not_found",
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    "headline": "No public price found",
    "summary": "No reliable public SaaS pricing was found in the supplied homepage or plan-viewer page content.",
    "confidence": "medium",
    "source_url": "https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring/plan-viewer/",
    "checked_at": "2026-10-24T01:37:08.712Z",
    "source_kind": "vendor",
    "amount": null,
    "display": null,
    "plans": [],
    "source": "render+llm"
  },
  "trust_or_rating_signal": [],
  "evidence_quality": "unclear",
  "entity_type": "mcp_server",
  "regulated_data_suitability": "unclear",
  "evidence_urls": [
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  ],
  "last_checked": "2026-10-24",
  "profile_checked": null,
  "price_checked": "2026-10-24",
  "how_to_connect": {
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    "docs": null,
    "mcp": null,
    "a2a": null,
    "api": null,
    "protocols": [
      "MCP"
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    "install": null,
    "repository": null,
    "note": "Speaks MCP but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
  },
  "deployment": {
    "model": "self_hosted",
    "both_offered": false,
    "hosted_endpoint": null,
    "install": null,
    "note": "You run it yourself: install from the published command/package; no vendor endpoint found.",
    "evidence": {
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        "page_text:self_run_wording",
        "page_text:licence"
      ],
      "excerpt": "and the ones you do have are detected and used. Queries & Plans Statement stats, self-hosted and Aurora Plan capture via auto_explain, on Aurora and RDS too Per-query",
      "url": "https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring/",
      "observed_day": "2026-10-28",
      "age_days": 2,
      "hosted_evidence": null,
      "rule": "deploy-v1"
    }
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "MIT",
    "note": "Named licence as published; applies to the code, not to where it runs.",
    "evidence": "page text: \"S RDS • PostgreSQL 13–18 incl. Aurora • MIT License • Signed binaries Need Exper\"",
    "observed_day": "2026-10-28",
    "age_days": 2
  },
  "evidence_checks": {
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      "last_observed_day": "2026-09-06",
      "age_days": 54,
      "verified_day": null,
      "note": "not verified by the page-text gate"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
  },
  "product_group": {
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    "group": "Monitoring and incident management",
    "change_90d_pct": 0,
    "fair_price_by_tier_monthly_usd": {
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      "pro": 29,
      "team / small business": 66.87,
      "enterprise": 68.81
    },
    "note": "Change of the group's price index over the last 90 days. Call get_group_fair_price with group_id for tier and payment-model detail.",
    "page": "https://agentery.com/aepi/groups/82"
  },
  "liveness": {
    "probed": true,
    "alive": true,
    "endpoint_kind": "site",
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    "uptime_7d": 1,
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    "consecutive_failures": 0,
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  },
  "price_extras": {
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    "unit_cost": null
  },
  "reported_success": null,
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}