This article explores dynamic alerting, what it means, why it matters for DBAs, and how it works in Redgate Monitor. Learn how machine learning-driven thresholds increase alert relevance, helping teams focus on real performance issues while saving DBAs time. Read more
Managing database security, compliance, and performance across a complex estate is no easy task. Redgate Monitor Enterprise brings all the data you need into one place. This article explores how it helps DBAs track user permissions, ensure configuration compliance, create custom reports, and implement resilient high-availability monitoring. Read more
This article explores PostgreSQL's buffer cache hit ratio (BCHR), a metric tracked by Redgate Monitor to help you assess the health and performance of your databases. By correctly interpreting this ratio and using it with other relevant memory and IO metrics, you can identify potential bottlenecks in query execution before they impact users. Read more
This article demonstrates how Redgate Monitor helps teams manage database incidents efficiently, by providing the right data to the right people, at each stage of a tiered incident response system. With fewer distractions from routine issues, specialist staff can focus on core tasks while teams resolve problems faster and prevent future disruptions. Read more
In today’s fast-moving digital landscape, ensuring the health and performance of your databases is more critical than ever. Redgate Monitor stands out as a leading solution designed to help you manage your entire database estate with ease and efficiency. Comprehensive monitoring capabilities Redgate Monitor offers a single pane of glass view of all your servers, Read more
Current Activity for PostgreSQL in Redgate Monitor provides a real-time view of queries currently running on your PostgreSQL instances. It will allow you to identify quickly any queries that are currently causing blocking and resource contention issues on an instance. Read more
Redgate Monitor now offers improved security for monitoring PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS and Aurora DB clusters, as well as for retrieving enhanced metrics from any RDS instance. Read more
When processing a query in PostgreSQL that requires more memory than it's configured to allocate, data will be spilled to disk to complete the query operations. This can introduce performance bottlenecks. Redgate Monitor now includes recommendations for PostgreSQL that warn you when a spill occurs and will help you understand why and what you can do to avoid it. 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 for a rapid response, into a single, organization-wide incident management system. Read more
For SQL Server 2019 onwards, Redgate Monitor can now show the actual execution plan, complete with runtime statistics, for expensive queries that were running over any period of investigation. This means you'll not only know how SQL Server executed your poorly performing query but also see accurate runtime data. Any big discrepancies between estimated and actual row counts will be revealed, and Redgate Monitor will highlight any warnings and offer recommendations. Read more