
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…
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…
Official Darling Data Monitor links
Pricing & plans
Observed public pricing for Darling Data Monitor, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.
$41.67 /mo
The current price sits below the comparable median.
$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.
Why Agentery reaches that view
price_benchmark83.3% below the Team flat median.
get_provider_profile · plan historyUnspecified plan observed 2026-09-06.
pricing recommendation~25th percentile of comparable Team flat plans (approximate: interpolated between the cohort’s observed quartiles, 4 providers).
confidencethin (thin cohort); source page rechecked daily.
Test a different price for this plan.
Move the proposed monthly price. Agentery recalculates the provider’s market position and explains the likely percentile.
Is Darling Data Monitor good value?
How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.
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.
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.
View the full niche →Darling Data Monitor's local market
Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above.
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)
{
"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": [
"MCP"
],
"industry_fit": [],
"autonomy_level": "unclear",
"human_approval_needed": "unclear",
"pricing_model": "free",
"stated_free": {
"quote": "built by people who’ve never tuned a query in their lives. This one’s free, open source, and built by someone who has. 68 collectors across SQL Server and Po",
"url": "https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring/",
"day": "2026-10-14",
"note": "The vendor says it is free in its own words; this is not an observed $0 price."
},
"price": {
"observed": false,
"billing": "not_found",
"currency": null,
"lowest_monthly_usd": null,
"monthly_usd": null,
"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": [
"https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring/"
],
"last_checked": "2026-10-24",
"profile_checked": null,
"price_checked": "2026-10-24",
"how_to_connect": {
"website": "https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-performance-monitoring/",
"docs": null,
"mcp": null,
"a2a": null,
"api": null,
"protocols": [
"MCP"
],
"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": {
"sources": [
"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": {
"price": {
"source_url": "https://erikdarling.com/pricing",
"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": {
"group_id": 82,
"group": "Monitoring and incident management",
"change_90d_pct": 0,
"fair_price_by_tier_monthly_usd": {
"individual": 13,
"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",
"latency_ms": 83,
"uptime_7d": 1,
"checked_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:26.237Z",
"consecutive_failures": 0,
"status": "alive"
},
"price_extras": {
"free_tier": null,
"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."
}