Security and compliance
Ensure data security and compliance with monitoring and change traceability
How your database impacts your bottom line
4costs every business leader should know and what leading organizations are doing about them
1Downtime
When databases go down, every minute has a price
How much does a single hour of downtime cost?
In medium and large size enterprises
90% reported
$300,000+ per hour
41% reported
$1–5 million per hour
In high-risk sectors
$5 million+ per hour
Source: ITIC 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey
How much does unplanned downtime cost annually?
For companies in the Forbes Global 2000
$400 billion per year
9% of total profits
Source: Splunk and Oxford Economics, Hidden Costs of Downtime 2025
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TruStone Financial is a US credit union with $5.4 billion in assets. A home-grown monitoring solution was creating downtime that directly affected members.
"If we didn't have Redgate Monitor, issues would have triaged up to the member, and that member would have been impacted. Having Redgate Monitor has been imperative to how we operate as a business."
William Boutwell
Lead DBA, TruStone Financial
Since switching to Redgate Monitor, the team handles issues proactively, before members are affected, and with a material reduction in downtime events.
2Compliance & data breaches
A data breach keeps costing money long after it closes
Technical remediation
Regulatory fines
Lost business
Customer churn
Reputational damage
$10.22 million
Average cost of a data breach in the United States
The more distributed the estate, the longer a breach goes undetected and the more costly it becomes to close.
276 days
Average time to identify and contain a cross-environment data breach, globally
For most organizations in the dataset, a breach was not a singular event. The access control and visibility gaps that allowed the first one are the same gaps that allow the next.
83%
experienced more than one data breach over the reporting period
Data privacy legislation has continued to accelerate since 2023. Enforcement is moving beyond big tech into Financial Services, Healthcare, and the public sector.
19 states
across the US now have comprehensive data privacy laws in force
GDPR
remains an active obligation alongside domestic framework for EU customers
Source: IAPP US State Privacy Legislation Tracker 2026
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Knowing who has access to your database estate, and whether those permissions are still appropriate, is one of the most direct ways to reduce breach exposure from inside the organization.
"The security analysis tools in Redgate Monitor have helped to identify employees (current and former) that have too much access, and allowed us to properly adjust roles without querying every system individually. Tremendous amount of time saved by using this tool for SQL audits."
Rob Blankers
VP Infrastructure & Operations
3Manual processes
The hidden cost of manual database monitoring
23%
of organizations monitor their databases with home built solutions
Without tooling that surfaces intelligent next steps alongside the alert, mean time to resolution extends and specialist capacity is spent on investigation rather than higher value work.
6 hours per day
saved for a lone DBA managing 10 SQL servers since implementing Redgate Monitor
75% reduction
in database monitoring time with Redgate Monitor, taking a 2-hour daily production check down to 30 minutes
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"One of the biggest upsides of Redgate Monitor is the significant reduction in time, stress, and uncertainty — issues that once took hours or even days to diagnose can now be resolved much faster. Redgate Monitor streamlines day-to-day DBA work, improves efficiency, and makes managing database performance far more enjoyable and reliable."
Sangram Singh
SQL Server DBA Senior Specialist
4Cloud cost visibility
The cloud costs hiding in your database estate
87%
organizations running hybrid or cloud estates are actively monitoring their cloud costs
However, visibility into what is driving those costs is another matter.
55%
have analytics available that can link cost spikes directly to workload performance
45%of organizations running cloud or hybrid estates cannot clearly link cost spikes to what their databases are doing
Source: Redgate State of Database Landscape Report 2026
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GoodHabitz is a Dutch EdTech company serving 3,000+ clients across Europe.
"Redgate Monitor gave us the clarity we needed to avoid costly misconfigurations. In one example, we reduced peak throughput from 700–800MB/s to under 100MB/s before migration"
Chris Chen
CTO, GoodHabitz
GoodHabitz reduced their infrastructure costs by one-third after consolidating their estate with Redgate Monitor.
Discover the difference
Redgate Monitor helps you manage your entire database estate from a single pane of glass. Monitor SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB – on premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.
Get database observability to proactively mitigate potential risks with instant problem diagnosis and customizable alerting. No downtime, customer complaints, or wake-up calls at 3am.
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"Redgate Monitor saves me a couple of hours a day at least. If it’s a really bad day it probably saves me six hours. When a director calls and asks why is this slow, I don’t have to track it down from 10 different servers. I just go into Redgate Monitor."
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