Redgate Monitor Enterprise
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Efficient and Intuitive SQL Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
I like the simplicity of Redgate Monitor and its very attractive interface. I find the analysis of queries and execution plans particularly useful, as it allows me to identify performance issues and possible improvements faster than the management studio.
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting section in Redgate Monitor should be improved. The management of tiles in the reports needs enhancements, and it would be useful if, by leveraging some AI, the program could suggest the most suitable reports based on the workload. Additionally, in on-premise environments, there have been issues with permissions during configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redgate Monitor offers me clear monitoring with query history and allows me to quickly identify performance issues. Compared to the management studio, it explains the queries by highlighting problems and improvements.
Extremely Detailed Monitoring That Massively Improved Our Query Performance
What do you like best about the product?
Redgate monitor is great, it's extremely detailed and has enabled us to improve query performance massively. We have been able to diagnose issues faster, leading to reduced business downtime. The software is easy to use and highlights key information well. Interactions with Redgate staff have been good, any support has been quickly resolved.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of Redgate is slightly high, and the customisation on user access controls could be improved with SSO or per-user login.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Highlighting query inefficiency and performance issues, highlighting where missing indexes could improve performance, alerting to when certain thresholds are met such as CPU usage, AVG query wait time and letting the team know ahead of end users.
Essential Tool for SQL Performance and Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
I really love using Redgate Monitor for managing and supporting SQL Managed Instances on Azure, which is fantastic. The reporting functionality is something we absolutely love, especially the ability to create really structured alerts. The dashboards are pretty customizable, allowing us to see the health of any node at any time. This tool has helped us diagnose database performance issues over the years, saving us a ton of money and SLA credits. We also appreciate the proactive monitoring and alerting capabilities that notify our development team of any issues. So, yeah, we love that as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It was pretty straightforward overall, but there were some initial issues with the managed instance, but nothing we couldn't get past with the help of support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Redgate Monitor for SQL managed instances. It helps diagnose database performance issues, saving us money and SLA credits. It allows team members to detect non-performing database parts and provides monitoring and alerting, benefiting our development team.
Effortless Monitoring with Redgate Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
I find Redgate Monitor easy to use and intuitive. It offers easy insights into the root cause and what's happening when we don't have a dedicated resource for monitoring. The needed information is right at hand, allowing us to drill down efficiently. The initial setup was super easy with a good guide.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing comes to mind
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Redgate Monitor for easy insights into root causes, server monitoring without a dedicated resource, and having needed information at hand. It's easy to use and intuitive, allowing us to drill down effectively.
Comprehensive Database Insights and Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Redgate provides a great overview of your database landscape, and allows for deep dives in analytics, and performance metrics.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see improvements made to monitoring and alerting from redgate. Rollup of similar errors/alerts from the same server, and improved availability group alerting would be a great addition
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redgate has been an invaluable tool to monitor our database estate, and dig deep into performance problems
Improved Visibility and Performance with Redgate SQL Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
The tool is easy to set up and use, with a well-designed and intuitive interface that provides clear insights even for non-specialist users. The overview dashboard gives us an immediate picture of server health, helping us detect and prevent performance or availability issues before they escalate.
What we particularly appreciate:
Highly configurable and intelligent alerts that reduce noise and focus on real issues.
Historical performance data that supports root cause analysis and trend monitoring.
Effortless deployment across multiple SQL Server instances, whether on-premises or in hybrid environments.
As SQL Server administrators, we’ve saved a significant amount of time identifying slow queries, bottlenecks, and resource-related problems. Redgate SQL Monitor integrates seamlessly into our proactive monitoring approach and has helped us improve both system reliability and performance visibility.
We highly recommend it to any IT team looking to strengthen its SQL Server infrastructure monitoring.
What we particularly appreciate:
Highly configurable and intelligent alerts that reduce noise and focus on real issues.
Historical performance data that supports root cause analysis and trend monitoring.
Effortless deployment across multiple SQL Server instances, whether on-premises or in hybrid environments.
As SQL Server administrators, we’ve saved a significant amount of time identifying slow queries, bottlenecks, and resource-related problems. Redgate SQL Monitor integrates seamlessly into our proactive monitoring approach and has helped us improve both system reliability and performance visibility.
We highly recommend it to any IT team looking to strengthen its SQL Server infrastructure monitoring.
What do you dislike about the product?
Resource consumption on monitored servers
SQL Monitor can introduce noticeable overhead on monitored SQL Server instances, particularly during frequent query capture or when monitoring high-load servers. Fine-tuning the polling intervals is necessary to minimize impact in production environments.
Initial alert noise
The alerting system tends to be quite verbose out of the box. It takes some effort to properly tune thresholds and disable non-critical alerts to reduce noise. A role-based or usage-specific alert configuration wizard would be a welcome enhancement.
SQL Monitor can introduce noticeable overhead on monitored SQL Server instances, particularly during frequent query capture or when monitoring high-load servers. Fine-tuning the polling intervals is necessary to minimize impact in production environments.
Initial alert noise
The alerting system tends to be quite verbose out of the box. It takes some effort to properly tune thresholds and disable non-critical alerts to reduce noise. A role-based or usage-specific alert configuration wizard would be a welcome enhancement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously, we were often in a reactive mode—responding to user complaints or incidents. With SQL Monitor, we now get alerted about issues like long-running queries, blocking, or high resource usage before they impact users. This allows us to act early and reduce downtime.
Investigating performance issues used to be time-consuming and manual. SQL Monitor provides historical performance data, deadlock analysis, and wait stats that make it much easier to identify the root cause of problems and resolve them faster.
The automation of health checks, customizable alerting, and built-in reports saves our DBAs a significant amount of time. We’re able to focus more on optimization and planning rather than firefighting.
Investigating performance issues used to be time-consuming and manual. SQL Monitor provides historical performance data, deadlock analysis, and wait stats that make it much easier to identify the root cause of problems and resolve them faster.
The automation of health checks, customizable alerting, and built-in reports saves our DBAs a significant amount of time. We’re able to focus more on optimization and planning rather than firefighting.
Best DB monitoring solution out there!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and great MTTR.
Redgate Monitor monitor makes me look so good. Any time something goes wrong (and sometimes even before) I have the answer for it.
Redgate Monitor monitor makes me look so good. Any time something goes wrong (and sometimes even before) I have the answer for it.
What do you dislike about the product?
limted Oracle insights, I understand it is coming, but I wish it was here right now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redgate Monitor solves the challenge of proactively managing SQL Server performance and availability. It gives us real-time and historical visibility into our estate, enabling faster root cause analysis, smarter capacity planning, and consistent uptime. The customizable alerts help us stay ahead of issues before users are impacted, while the estate-wide overview reduces the time spent firefighting. It’s especially valuable in complex or hybrid environments where manual monitoring just doesn’t scale. Ultimately, it gives us peace of mind and more time to focus on strategic work.
No noise - just actionable data
What do you like best about the product?
What I like the most is that upon installation and configuration, we immediately got actionable data that gave us valuable insight into our SQL estate. This allowed us to immediately resolve issues that hadn't been seen before. We can see our entire estate health in a single pane instead of having to drill down on each machine to find out what is going on. Alerts are meaningful and allow us to make changes at a granular level, not just global settings, but down to the machine or database, which is critical for us so that we're not just getting a lot of meaningless noise. Query plans, execution plans, and deadlock events are rich with detail. Redgate has built a lot of custom metrics, but you can also build your own using SQL statements. Integration with REST and Powershell are also a big plus for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Love the integration with VMWare, which has been really helpful for us. Hope that Redgate will also consider adding integration with Microsoft Stack HCI and AVDs, as we are transitioning many machines to this technology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is giving us actual, actionable data, based on our company's needs. When we get an alert, we know it is not a false alarm or some vague reference for which there is little to no documentation for us to investigate. We also get real-time resource metrics, SQL metrics (including top queries, waits and sprocs), blocking processes, robust AG metrics, failed jobs, backup history across the estate, and user permissions. All of these data points allow us to immediately and proactively resolve issues which, in turn, allow us to focus effort on other time-sensitive business projects.
Simplifies Performance Monitoring with a Few Connectivity Hiccups
What do you like best about the product?
I like the simplicity of Redgate Monitor's GUI. I can just go in, click through, and configure notifications and alerts very simply. Everything is nice and clear in the dashboard when we connect to it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes we get connectivity issues to database servers when using Windows authentication. It sometimes causes problems, like an invalid connection or connection from an invalid domain showing up in the SQL server error logs. Also, I find that it's a little bit performance hungry sometimes, especially since we are monitoring quite a lot of servers now on a slightly underpowered VM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Redgate Monitor to track database servers, alert on disk space and performance issues, and delve into identifying real performance problems.
Monitor is a great tool for watching your databse when you dont have the sdtaff to do it
What do you like best about the product?
I like the email notifications and that I can create my own
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the customer notifications would have the ability to send better content in the emails
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is notify me of issues that I do not have time to watch for with my other non-DBA duties
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