Ten Reasons your SQL Server Monitoring will Scale

This article explains ten ways that SQL Monitor tackles the problem of scaling out the coverage of a single, lightweight monitoring system, and so allows your teams to maintain the health and performance of larger collections of databases and higher numbers of monitored SQL servers. Read more

Monitoring Amazon RDS SQL Servers to Optimize Performance and Manage Costs

Israel Valverde explains the triple benefits of using Redgate Monitor to cover your SQL Server instances running on Amazon RDS, for SQL Server performance optimization, controlling AWS-hosting costs, and in providing a single, unified view of the health of all your SQL Servers, regardless of where they are hosted. Read more

When SQL Server Performance Goes Bad: Rogue Indexes

Phil Factor explains how SQL Monitor helps focus performance tuning efforts on the tables and queries where 'rogue indexes' might be a significant problem, and then how to identify both 'missing' indexes that might be beneficial to the overall workload, and those that are unused or duplicated, and so are doing more harm than good. Read more

When SQL Server Performance Goes Bad: Implicit Conversions

In this article, you'll learn how to detect and remove a common cause of SQL Server query performance problems: reliance on implicit datatype conversions. We'll use a combination of plan cache queries, extended events, and SQL Monitor. Read more

Introduction to Analyzing Waits using SQL Monitor

Phil Factor sets out with the modest aim of giving you enough of an introduction to waits to better understand the wait information you get from a SQL Server monitoring tool like SQL Monitor, and the rather overwhelming amount of information available in the underlying DMVs and Extended Events. Read more

Automate Responses to Bad Deployments with Redgate Monitor

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 users. Read more

SQL Server Licensing and SQL Monitor

How well do the SQL Server licenses you own match up with what you need for your current use? William Durkin explains how to use SQL Monitor to find out. Read more

When SQL Server Performance goes Bad: the Fill Factor and Excessive Fragmentation

Phil Factor on the fill factor, pages splits and index fragmentation, and how SQL Monitor can help you decide if a custom fill factor for certain indexes might help alleviate performance issues. Read more

The Underground Map of SQL Monitor

The "metro map" of SQL Monitor, with sightseeing tips and essential stops along every line.... Read more

Adding Reports Users to Redgate Monitor

SQL Monitor 10.0.5 now supports a user role called "Reports user". A user added to this role, by an administrator, will be able to 'self-serve' SQL Monitor reports but won't be able to configure any other aspect of the monitoring service. Jeremiah Peschka explains how it works. Read more

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