One of my favorite new PostgreSQL 18 features which hasn’t had much attention yet is tracking session-level IO stats. It’s going to be really helpful for more quickly finding problematic queries in real-time – kudos in particular to Bertrand Drouvot for the work on it! What’s the problem? It’s easy enough to know when... Read more
I’m excited to announce a new capability in Redgate Monitor Enterprise: the Sensitive Action Log. As infrastructure becomes more complex, it’s more critical than ever to maintain control over how your monitoring environment is configured and accessed. Whether you’re responding to internal compliance policies, preparing for audits, or simply tightening operational security, it’s key... Read more
I’m delighted to share that you can now run Redgate Monitor’s data repository on PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, achieving dramatically improved performance and scalability at reduced cost. Why are we doing this? Until today, Redgate Monitor has relied on a SQL Server data store. That’s often a great choice, and the ability to run on... Read more
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
Ben Emmett