Database teams are already juggling a lot. Monitoring the performance of complex, multi-platform estates takes expertise and focus — and that's before you factor in installing, maintaining, and updating the monitoring tooling itself. 

That's the tension we've been hearing from database teams for a while. The monitoring solution is supposed to reduce operational burden, yet the infrastructure that runs it adds more. It's a solvable problem, and today we're solving it. 

Introducing a SaaS edition for Redgate Monitor

Redgate Monitor is now available as a fully managed, cloud-hosted SaaS edition — giving database teams the same deep performance monitoring they rely on, without the overhead of managing the platform that delivers it. 

The value proposition is simple: install a lightweight agent*, and Redgate takes care of the rest. Infrastructure, security best practices, upgrades, and maintenance are all handled for you. You get access to a fully managed monitoring platform — and to new capabilities as we release them, typically weekly. 

Same Monitor, your choice of deployment

It's worth being clear about what Monitor SaaS is and isn't. It isn't a new product, and it isn't a replacement for the self-hosted edition. It's the same Redgate Monitor that thousands of database professionals rely on, now available in a different deployment model. 

If your organization has a cloud-first policy, or simply prefers not to manage tooling infrastructure and wants to use the time for strategic work, Monitor SaaS meets you where you are. If you'd rather maintain full control and continue self-hosting, that works too — we're continuing to invest in and develop both editions with a shared codebase. The choice is yours, and we won't try to push you one way or the other. 

Why we built this

Cloud adoption has reshaped how organizations think about tooling. For those teams, a self-hosted monitoring tool creates an awkward friction point: it's one more thing to manage, version, and maintain. This is why we have seen an increasing number of companies introduce cloud-first or SaaS policies for tooling to protect their employees’ time to focus on the company’s core mission. 

At the same time, DBA teams are under pressure to focus on strategic priorities — AI data readiness, scaling infrastructure, reducing downtime — not on keeping their monitoring platform up to date. We know that more than half of current Monitor users are over six months behind on updates, which means they're missing out on recent improvements. 

Monitor SaaS removes that friction and ensures you always have access to the latest features.  

Strong early demand

Interest in Monitor SaaS has been strong. Over a hundred organizations expressed interest during early access, consistently noting the value of retaining the depth of capability they expected from Redgate Monitor while simplifying how it's deployed and run. That feedback has shaped how we've approached the launch and what we're prioritizing on the roadmap from here. 

What's available now

Monitor SaaS launches with the Standard tier, supporting monitoring across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and other platforms. It's hosted on AWS with a choice of US or EU regions, and is currently available for organizations monitoring estates of 5–50 servers. 

We're continuing to develop both editions, and the expansion of Monitor SaaS — including larger estate support and additional features — is already underway. Find out how it differs here. 

If you're evaluating database monitoring and want deep insight into your estate without hosting another tool get started with Redgate Monitor SaaS. 

* (Our agent is a data collector which can monitor multiple servers and send the data securely back to our platform, or you can use multiple agents to cover multiple regions and reduce latency)