A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of your business in ten key ways. Here's how:
With a proactive database monitoring tool, your IT team will be alerted to potential outages and issues first – identify root causes, learn from and recover from them faster. A survey by Redgate of approximately 1000 database professionals found that respondents using a third-party monitoring tool reported a 28% reduction in Mean Time To Detection (MTTD) of deployment issues, and a 22% reduction in Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).
Enterprise advantage: Redgate Monitor Enterprise takes this further with high availability configurations using load balancers, ensuring uninterrupted monitoring even during system failures – meeting the highest standards for business resilience.
Whether your databases are on-premises or in the cloud, Redgate Monitor lets you manage them with one tool, from one screen, so you can gain the advantages of moving to the cloud easier and faster.
With its web-based interface and advanced reporting capability, Redgate Monitor allows performance insights to be shared with development teams and management, improving collaboration and resulting in better business outcomes.
Enterprise advantage: Redgate Monitor Enterprise adds full visibility and control over how the monitoring solution is used across your organization. Track user activity, enforce security policies, and demonstrate compliance by showing exactly who did what and when – strengthening governance and supporting audits.
Research from Statista shows that the average cost per hour of enterprise server downtime is $301,000 - $400,000 – but it rises to more than $1m per hour for 40% of businesses. A monitoring tool gives your team the ability to be proactive vs reactive, offering major savings through faster resolution and prevention should downtime occur.
Redgate Monitor's estate management capability eases and simplifies the often laborious but necessary task of keeping your operating systems and backups up to date, by providing a detailed and instant overview of installed versions, patches, and the status of backups.
Enterprise advantage: Enterprise dramatically streamlines compliance with automated SQL Server configuration audits against templates based on recognized security benchmarks like CIS Benchmark for SQL Server 2022. Get instant visibility into user access rights (past and present) and reduce reporting time by up to 95% – turning hours of manual work into minutes.
Redgate Monitor lists information about Microsoft licenses and the configuration options of SQL Server, which helps save time for Microsoft ‘true-up' audits as well as common security audits.
By providing detailed usage information such as server disk space and performance baselines, database monitoring helps identify areas for consolidation and savings. A major Norwegian bank was able to decommission 20% of its servers when migrating to the cloud using Redgate Monitor, dramatically reducing costs through proper resource analysis.
At Redgate, we estimate that annual savings realized with monitoring tools could be well over the $85,000 mark based on 20 servers – and that doesn't include outage and downtime costs. If your estate consists of 100+ servers, savings will be much higher. Redgate Monitor automates time-consuming manual tasks like identifying long-running queries and tracking blocked processes, freeing up your team for strategic initiatives.
With instant problem diagnosis and intelligent, customizable alerts, Redgate Monitor gives your IT team the ability to identify issues quickly and fix the causes before they impact your customers.
Complex systems and processes around server monitoring can waste time and increase frustration for IT teams. An intuitive solution gives DBAs the actionable information they need from an estate overview screen and in just a couple of clicks, which is the kind of user experience that appeals to both existing staff and new hires.
Enterprise advantage: Enterprise dramatically streamlines compliance with automated SQL Server configuration audits against templates based on recognized security benchmarks like CIS Benchmark for SQL Server 2022. Get instant visibility into user access rights (past and present) and reduce reporting time by up to 95% – turning hours of manual work into minutes.
A robust database monitoring solution like Redgate Monitor drives business value by proactively alerting your team of potential issues before they impact operations, reducing downtime and customer impact, and accelerating analysis and recovery efforts.
For security-conscious organizations managing complex database estates, Redgate Monitor Enterprise adds enterprise-grade governance, automated compliance capabilities, and high availability features that strengthen your security posture while dramatically reducing manual effort.
In doing so, it helps you maintain your competitive edge because your systems perform optimally, your data remains secure and compliant, and your IT teams focus on strategic initiatives rather than firefighting issues or getting frustrated with manual compliance processes.
The Redgate Monitor team can help and discuss your particular set up with the costs, implementation and support to get you up and running with Redgate Monitor faster and realize the return from your investment sooner. They can give you a bespoke quote based on your needs and your SQL Server environment. Ready to have a chat with one of our helpful and friendly team? Get in touch!
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