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Cloud Database Cost Optimization with Redgate Monitor

How a Redgate Monitor method uncovered $150k in potential cloud savings. Read more

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Cut SQL Server Licensing and Cloud Costs by Monitoring CPU Overallocation

Avoid paying for unused CPU power, on-prem or in the cloud. This guide shows how to use Redgate Monitor to identify overprovisioned SQL Server VMs, reduce licensing and compute costs, and ensure your workloads still run smoothly. Read more

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Understanding PostgreSQL's Cache Hit Ratio

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… Read more

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Better Database Incident Management with Redgate Monitor

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… Read more

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PostgreSQL Spill to Disk Recommendations in Redgate Monitor

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… Read more

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Integrating Redgate Monitor Alerts with New Relic

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… Read more

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Troubleshooting SQL Server Queries using Actual Execution Plans

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… Read more

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Integrating Redgate Monitor into a Tier-1 Alert and Notification System

Redgate Monitor provides detail-level diagnostic data that will allow an expert to drill down to establish the cause of, and a fix for, any database problem. However, with support for webhooks, it can also contribute alerts to the sort of "Tier 1" alerting and paging system that an operations team… Read more

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Six Things to Monitor with PostgreSQL

This article describes six performance metrics that ought to be central to your PostgreSQL monitoring strategy. By using a tool like Redgate Monitor to track these metrics over time, and establish baselines for them, you'll be able to spot resource pressure or performance issues immediately, quickly diagnose the cause, and… Read more

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Finding and Tuning Expensive Stored Procedures using Redgate Monitor

Redgate Monitor's Top procedures list makes it simple to find the procedures having the biggest impact on performance, allowing you to prioritize your tuning efforts, reduce risk and keep pace with the requirements of your growing database estate. Read more

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Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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Cloud Database Cost Optimization with Redgate Monitor

Cut SQL Server Licensing and Cloud Costs by Monitoring CPU Overallocation

Understanding PostgreSQL's Cache Hit Ratio

Better Database Incident Management with Redgate Monitor

PostgreSQL Spill to Disk Recommendations in Redgate Monitor

Integrating Redgate Monitor Alerts with New Relic

Troubleshooting SQL Server Queries using Actual Execution Plans

Integrating Redgate Monitor into a Tier-1 Alert and Notification System

Six Things to Monitor with PostgreSQL

Finding and Tuning Expensive Stored Procedures using Redgate Monitor

2026 State of the Database Landscape

Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional

Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

Redgate Flyway

Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

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