By listening and delivering on what you, our customers, need, our teams have built a world class monitoring tool that we are continuously investing in and committed to.
Developed with future demands in mind
Improve performance and uncover issues fast
Monitor your environment across cloud and on-prem
Designed to scale configuration and permissions
"You should take some time out of your no-doubt busy schedule and check out SQL Monitor. If you've never seen it before, I think you're going to be extremely happy with this tool. If you looked at it back in the day, you're going to be pleasantly shocked at where we are now. Our teams have built a world class monitoring tool."
Grant Fritchey, Microsoft MVP and Redgate Advocate
Through continuous innovation, SQL Monitor stays ahead. So you, your team and the whole organization can, too!
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The Evolution of SQL Monitor 2019 to 2022
Estate management
Manage your server estate and proactively avoid potential issues with a comprehensive overview of installed versions, disk usage, backups, and SQL Agent jobs.
Azure SQL Database support
Full support of SQL Server databases hosted on Microsoft Azure allowing you to monitor your hybrid server environment.
PowerShell API for configuring SQL Monitor
You decide what's most important by using PowerShell to customize monitoring and alerting to only see what's relevant to you and your organization.
Permissions table
Ensure security and compliance by controlling who in the organization has access to selected servers at each access level.
Support for IT Service Management systems
Speed up troubleshooting by integrating SQL Monitor alerts with your ticket management system.
Annotate server overview graphs
Quickly diagnose potential issues with deployments, backups, etc, by showing at a glance what happened when.
SQL Server licensing overview
Save license costs by understanding how well the SQL Server licenses you own match up with your actual needs.
Integration with other tools via Webhooks
Improve reaction time and collaboration by integrating SQL Monitor alerts with other enterprise tools such as Microsoft Teams, ServiceNow or Splunk.
AWS RDS support
Monitor your SQL Server databases hosted on AWS RDS alongside your on-premises and other cloud-based servers, instances, and databases.
Advanced tempdb monitoring metrics
Ensure business continuity by diagnosing the sessions, databases and applications potentially causing contention issues or rapid tempdb growth.
Unattended installations and upgrades
Save time by automating SQL Monitor installations and upgrades for your organization.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Support
Monitor your Azure SQL Managed Instances alongside your on-premises and other cloud-based servers, instances, and databases.
SQL Server configuration information
Detect discrepancies and check for compliance using the overview of key server and database configuration options.
Query search bar
SQL Monitor now comes with a query search bar that allows you to quickly search and find the query you’re interested in. You can search the top queries sampled by SQL Monitor and check how a specific query is performing.
Migration onto ASP.NET Core
Rely on the future viability of SQL Monitor, which with migration to .NET Core performs even better and speeds up future developments.
New Global Dashboard
Assess the health of your server estate even faster by grouping monitored instances by alert severity status.
Tagging
Find monitoring metrics faster by tagging your servers, instances and databases and filtering for these tags in the global dashboard, the server overview page, or the alerts page.
Current activity tab
This tab reveals the most up-to-date real-time information possible with a table of queries that are currently running and their blocking status. Identify issues in real time with a table of queries that are currently running and their blocking status.
PowerShell API for tagging
The PowerShell API allows you to add, remove and manage your tags to a monitored Instance, Amazon RDS SQL Server or Azure Managed Instance. Save time by using PowerShell API to add, remove and manage your tags to a monitored Instance, Amazon RDS SQL Server or Azure Managed Instance.
Query recommendations
Improve query performances with recommendations gathered from query plans, code analysis and more. Now available in the top queries expanded view.
“We have introduced 150 new servers this year and 70-80 new applications. Without Redgate’s SQL Monitor this would not have been possible.”
“SQL Monitor lets us quickly know what the exact problem is so we can jump on it and fix it before the customer even notices.”
“The alerting is really helpful, being able to filter out the noise and get exactly what we need.”
“Redgate are a pleasure to work with and fall into that rare category where you rarely need to contact support, but it's always there if you should need it.”
As of April 2022, SQL Monitor has an Overall Rating of 4.3 out of 5 in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools, based on 14 reviews.
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How do senior leaders benefit from monitoring tools?
Matt Gordon
Director of Data and Infrastructure, Rev.io"I'm really passionate about this stuff… monitoring tools are important whether you're small, medium or large."
Chris Yates
SVP, Managing Director of Data and Architecture at Republic Bank"From an auditing perspective, it's definitely very helpful to have the information already upfront and in hand."
With complete support for SQL Server hosted on Virtual Machines, Azure SQL Databases, Google Cloud, and Amazon RDS or EC2, you can monitor on-premises, virtual machines, elastic pools, and Managed Instances all within the same dashboard.
SQL Monitor supports multiple base monitors, and one base monitor will cope with up to 400 servers, with minimal overhead. Even for very large server estates, spread across different networks, your team will retain a simple picture of the overall health, performance characteristics, and security of your estate.
Cut your daily server and database checks to minutes. The single pane of glass shows you the status and key metrics for your estate in one place. Customizable alerts can be tailored to your SQL Server environment to allow you to stay proactive.
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