SQL Monitor - Automating your morning checks
August 05, 2016
SQL Monitor - Automating your morning checks
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Redgate SQL Monitor
We use Redgate SQL Monitor as our primary SQL Server monitoring application. It's main tasks are to alert the DBAs of any problems with SQL server, such as failed jobs, long running queries, SQL errors, or host-level issues like high CPU or filled disks. We also use it for aggregating performance metrics and troubleshooting performance issues using wait statistics
- Provides a quick dashboard to identify what servers have issues, and the priority of them
- Allows for granular control over thresholds and alerting which can be set at multiple levels
- Let you easily go back in time to see what was going on in the past
- Incremental releases can be buggy
- Isn't the best for pinpointing performance issues
- Web interface can be sluggish
- Allows us to proactively fix issues before they happen
- Allows us to quickly react to issues without having to wait for someone else to notice
- Cuts down on the amount of time spent doing daily checks