As we expand our product management team, perhaps the top candidate question is “how do you structure the team?”. It makes sense: the role has different meanings at almost every organisation, and correspondingly different ways of working with others. That structure is also an important part of how we offer people opportunities to learn... Read more
This article demonstrates how to use a script notification, in PowerShell, to automatically send database alerts raised by Redgate Monitor as incidents to New Relic. This simple integration makes it easy to feed the detailed diagnostics that only a specialized database monitoring system such as Redgate Monitor provides, and the DBA team relies on... Read more
An overview of how PostgreSQL monitoring in Redgate Monitor will help you improve performance and reduce downtime in your PostgreSQL instances. Read more
I’m beyond excited to share that we’re bringing PostgreSQL monitoring to Redgate Monitor and we would like to invite Redgate Monitor customers to preview it. At Redgate we’ve been watching as ever-growing numbers of organizations have embraced PostgreSQL. In particular, as we talk to Redgate Monitor users, personally starting to become involved in managing... Read more
It’s never been more critical to protect your data infrastructure against malicious actors, with organizations dealing with an ever-expanding number of increasingly sophisticated attacks. Monitoring solutions represent part of your infrastructure’s attack surface area – they enjoy highly privileged access to the systems they help manage, and store sensitive information about the workloads running... Read more
Today Microsoft released the public preview of Azure SQL Database Managed Instances – an exciting new option for running SQL Server workloads in the cloud. I’m pleased to say that initial support for this new offering is already available across the development tools in Redgate’s SQL Toolbelt, as well as in SQL Monitor. This... Read more
Sudden performance issues in SQL Server can have many causes, ranging all the way from malfunctioning hardware, through to simple misconfiguration, or perhaps just end users doing things they shouldn't. But one particularly common culprit is when deployments go wrong: I don't know a single DBA who hasn't been burned by a bad release. Read more
This walkthrough shows how to configure SCOM so that it can consume alerts from SQL Monitor. Read more
One of SQL Monitor’s most valuable capabilities is raising alerts when bad things happen in SQL Server. The alerts are listed within SQL Monitor but can also be sent out as emails. However, many of our customers have said they’d like to see those alerts in their other systems too. The latest version of... Read more
People evaluating our software often ask us to send them an analysis document showing how we stack up against our competitors. It’s a very reasonable request, but because it’s one I always turn down I thought it would be worth sharing why I don’t think they’re meaningful. They’re selective During elections, politicians spend a... Read more
Ben Emmett