Redgate Monitor Enterprise

What do you like best about the product?

It is very related to SQL server technologies and ensure deep investigate and accurate dignosis

What do you dislike about the product?

sometimes it leads to bad performance on the heavy transaction databases

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

to deep investigate about database performances issues

What do you like best about the product?

It allows us to monitor all of our SQL servers in one location that’s easy to read and understand. Its alerting notifications have also become quite robust, especially with the recent updates.

What do you dislike about the product?

The ability to monitor our Oracle databases still leaves something to be desired, so for now we’re continuing to rely on Oracle’s OEM.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us proactively monitor our database servers for problems, so we can stay ahead of potential issues before they escalate.

What do you like best about the product?

It’s easy to visualize issues related to SQL.

What do you dislike about the product?

Alerting options and scheduled reporting about issues could be improved

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us monitor and improve performance, and handle maintenance for a business-critical part of our service.

What do you like best about the product?

Redgate Monitor provides a quick and easy snapshot across all of our database servers of what is happening in real time. It is a nice tool to have when things are slow or not working. It's also nice that we can go back in time to review things when the report is from something that happened earlier in the day.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes it can feel a little clunky or tricky to find exactly what you are looking for, but that goes away with experience.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest is when we have blockers or slowness in the databases. But also helping us create a bounty board of slow queries or those that often cause blocking.

What do you like best about the product?

I like the activity graphs which show SQL server activity via several measurements

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't have any dislikes for Redgate Monitor

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

When the server is under heavy load, I can go back and see what was taxing the server at that time

What do you like best about the product?

Once up and running, the user experience and performance is good. It does what you want it to do.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are a handful of real issues with this tool. 1. it is too pricey - we dont like the limited # of DBs we can monitor. It should be 10x, at least, the # of DBs you can monitor for the same price. 2. there is alot of overalp with what we already get in terms of monitoring with Azure SQL Server, which is also integrated better into our PaaS. 3. we have to maintain a full, costly VM(s) to run this tool. this is pretty much a deal breaker. SQL Monitor should be a subscription that we just connect to our Azure environment and it does it's magic, integrating with our cloud vendor, helping meet our SOC2 requirements, and we dont have to worry about infrastructure. Running VMs causes all sorts of additional costs and red flags with our certifications. Not to mention, a subscription to a SQL Monitor service just makes way more sense for us that having to maintain all the infrastructure behind it. 4. our salesperson said that we would be able to connect additional DBs beyond the limit, but that turned out not to be the case. So that support was frustrating. 5. we have not used the AI / intelligence.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

currently, we have stopped using this tool because of the reasons just mentioned. the cost is too high - both for the tool (overlapping with Azure) as well as the backend infrastructure and maintenance and added certification items we have to tend to in order to be compliant with these requirements. We avoid that by just staying in PaaS.

What do you like best about the product?

UI is friendly and easy to navigate from administration perspective. The tool integrates easily with various database technologies, we have used with Azure SQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL Virtual Machine and On Premises SQL Server.

From performance perspective, there is low latency in viewing metrics and dashboard. The data fetch is seamless and accurate.

One of the best features is onboarding new databases with instant access to OS, DB and replica data, keeps management straight forward and relatively easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not many, but to mention some, the alerting feature can be improved. For example, report feature to find trends of past alerts.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Database monitoring via Redgate Monitor has been instrumental for both Proactive and Reactive monitoring. We use it all the time to spot performance problems, disk space usages, backup reports, upgrade report and so on.

It is a comprehensive solution for DBA team.

What do you like best about the product?

You can have a quick overview of your sql fleet in a single page and understand in few seconds if there are issues

What do you dislike about the product?

Not having a native Redgate Monitor Mobile app to access it

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very depth performance tuning and platform governance

What do you like best about the product?

Once you’ve set up the alerting properly, it becomes much easier to know what to do next.

What do you dislike about the product?

Probably the onboarding. If the test connections step were more informative up front—especially about ports and similar details—I would have been able to troubleshoot some of our security and communication issues, as well as our related needs, much sooner.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives us a glanceable health dashboard, and being able to communicate directly on the alerts—and then see those comments the next time the same alert occurs—is amazing.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Redgate SQL Monitor is the balance between deep technical visibility and operational simplicity. It provides centralized monitoring across large SQL Server environments while still making it easy to quickly identify performance bottlenecks, blocking, wait statistics, failed jobs, AG health issues, and resource pressure.

The alerting is highly customizable and actionable, which helps reduce noise while still surfacing critical issues before they impact users. I also appreciate the historical performance data and intuitive dashboards, which make trending, capacity planning, and root-cause analysis significantly easier for DBAs supporting enterprise environments.

From a day-to-day operational standpoint, it has become a reliable single pane of glass for proactive SQL Server monitoring across both on-premises and cloud-hosted systems.

What do you dislike about the product?

One area where Redgate SQL Monitor could improve is in advanced customization and reporting flexibility for very large enterprise environments. While the built-in dashboards and alerts are strong, there are times when deeper customization or more granular filtering would help tailor monitoring views for different operational teams or business units.

In larger estates, alert tuning can also take some time during the initial implementation phase to ensure the right balance between visibility and noise reduction. Additionally, some of the more advanced analytics and historical reporting capabilities could benefit from expanded visualization and export options for long-term capacity and trend analysis.

That said, these are relatively minor compared to the overall value the platform provides for proactive SQL Server monitoring and operational stability.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Redgate SQL Monitor helps solve several operational challenges that are common in large SQL Server environments, particularly around proactive monitoring, performance troubleshooting, and visibility across multiple servers and platforms.

Before implementing centralized monitoring, identifying issues such as blocking, long-running queries, failed SQL Agent jobs, disk space pressure, replication or Availability Group health concerns, and resource bottlenecks often required manually checking multiple systems and tools. SQL Monitor consolidates that visibility into a single platform with real-time alerting and historical performance data.

The biggest benefit has been reduced time to detection and resolution. The platform allows us to identify trends and resolve issues before they become user-impacting outages. It has also improved operational efficiency by giving DBAs and infrastructure teams a shared view into SQL Server health, performance, and capacity planning.

From an enterprise support perspective, the historical baselining and performance analysis capabilities have been especially valuable during troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, helping reduce downtime and improve overall platform stability.