As Gartner recommends in their report ‘Fail Fast in Production; Embed Monitoring Earlier in Your DevOps Cycle’1, it has been shown that it’s possible to provide superior customer experiences by building “instrumentation into the preproduction phase, tracking metrics on availability, performance and service health”. While this particular report focuses on application monitoring, the benefits... Read more
Jamie Wallis explains how SQL Monitor can both reveal quickly who ran a deployment, and when, and automate the incident-response workflow to ensure it's dealt with swiftly. By extending such workflows to development and test servers, as well as production, the feedback cycle starts earlier, and you can stop problems from ever reaching the... Read more
In 2018 and 2019 we ran the industry’s only surveys into the state of SQL Server monitoring, both of which provided unique insights into how companies and organizations monitor their estates, the technologies they work with, and the biggest challenges they face. In Redgate’s third annual survey on the state of monitoring, still the... Read more
Since 2018, over 1,400 SQL Server professionals have provided valuable insights into how they monitor and manage their estates, and what challenges they’re facing, through the only industry-wide survey of its kind. The results of the survey have not only benefited the community but also helped us better understand how we could shape our... Read more
A while ago, James King of Redgate spoke to Tony Madonna, the Microsoft Platform Lead and SQL Enterprise Architect at BMW about the growing SQL Server estate at the car manufacturer, and how and why monitoring such a large estate is so important. The conversation was recorded and the video above is on... Read more
You may be under the impression that Product Marketing Managers and Product Managers fulfil the same function. At some organizations they do; defining the commercial position of the product and working with, or within, the product teams to ensure development matches the business strategy. So why would a software company hire both? At Redgate... Read more
This article explains the basic components of a tech stack, and the decisions and requirements that affect how and where monitoring tools generally, and a specialist SQL Server monitoring tool like SQL Monitor, in particular, fit into your stack. Read more
Managing an IT team is a tough job. While demands on your services are increasing, both internally and externally, the need to be aware of and in control of application and server performance is a constant pressure. In fact, there are four key elements that currently affect the working life of an IT leader:... Read more
In 2018 we ran the industry’s first ever state of SQL Server monitoring survey. We received an excellent response from over 600 people in a range of sectors, in organizations of every size across the globe. They provided valuable insights into what they thought the biggest challenges were for them and their estates over... Read more
Over 600 technology professionals who work in organizations that use SQL Server recently responded to our survey to discover the current state of SQL Server monitoring. We asked people across a range of sectors, in organizations of every size around the globe, about how they monitor SQL Server, the technologies they work with, and... Read more
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