EnterpriseDB, a developer of Postgres tools, launched the Postgres Enterprise Manager today. Enterprise Manager is a PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus Advanced Server monitoring program that is now available to existing EnterpriseDB clients for download, and as a standalone subscription.

Unlike other common monitoring applications, Postgres Enterprise Manager is designed from the ground up for use with PostgreSQL,” said Ed Boyajian, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. “With Postgres Enterprise Manager, developers and DBA’s can monitor the workload on their servers to help find, diagnose and fix poorly performing queries.”

The new Enterprise Manager offers several features to customers. These include performance monitoring dashboards covering I/O, storage, wait statistics and so on, along with the built-in Capacity Manager reporting and trend analysis tool. The latter allows users to analyze usage and forecast resource consumption.

Another tool, the SQL Profiler, lets devs find and patch poorly performing SQL code and is supplemented by custom alerts they can set in place to notify them when something goes wrong. On top of all that, the offering also ships with a pre-developed template that contains best practices and schema design suggestions among other perks.

In an interview with IT Jungle yesterday, Boyajian said how one of his company’s main focuses is going after Oracle. Customers looking to avoid vendor lock-in are starting to look at other alternatives, and EntepriseDB wants to provide them with the solution.

The release of Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.0 last month proves to be a very strong proof point of this plan.  Version 9 features support for HP-UX, a direct jab at Oracle considering the latter has ended software development for the Intanium chip line a few months ago.  SQL server to PostgreSQL replication is another addition that’s designed to attract MySQL users to Postgres.