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SQL Monitor has been a breath of fresh air for our organization. Our database team has been able to manage our very large 300+ server environment with ease. We are able to act on alerts quicker than ever and can proactively get ahead of issues. Our service center is also able to use the monitor for overnight monitoring. We are able to show non DBAs how to use the tool and they are not only able to but excited to get eyes into our most important systems. We have also been able to closely work with RedGate to influence the development of new features in the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Negotiating pricing. RedGate knows they are the best and charge accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It provides valuable insight about the health/status of our SQL servers and enables myself as DBA to help out our clients the best way possible. Furthermore the staff of redgate is helpful and accomodating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No comments thusfar working with Redgate monitor since I started early 2024. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to have both a single pane of glass and custom panes of glass to monitor our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When using recompile on SQL statements, you may miss out on some of the capturing of statements the tool can do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Redgate Monitor is easy to use and provides a lot of useful information without being overwhelming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've used other monitoring solutions and unlike others, Redgate doesn't have data for sessions and a given point in time. It does have top queries for a time period which is often enough, but some times it is nice to be able to see all session data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Redgate Monitor fulfills my needs as a DB Administrator. I can easily Monitor a large group of SQL Servers, and adding custom checks and alerts is child's playy. The support, too, is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Of course, the monitoring account needs pretty high privileges. Additionally, licences aren't cheap, but in my opinion, the value you get out of it is worth the money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The tool does a good job of providing features I wish were in the base product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
At nearly the price of a SQL Server license, it's a bit expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have been using RedGate Monitoring Tool for SQL servers for the past two years, every day, and since then i could form an opinion on the following:
Ease of Use:
Interface: A user-friendly interface with clear dashboards updated in real-time and intuitive navigation .
Alerting System: A very well-configured and higly customizable alerting system that displays timely notifications about performance issues or potential bottlenecks saves time and prevents problems from escalating.
Troubleshooting: Easy-to-understand performance reports with clear visualizations and actionable insights which makes it easy to identify problems. Also, plenty of refence documentation helping with the troubleshooting
Ease of implementation:
Initial setup: The installation is straightforward and supported by useful documentation.
Monitoring setup: Adding and removing servers from the monitoring dashboard is easy and straightfoarward, with documentation provided in case of issues.
Monitoring and operations:
We use RedGate monitoring tool daily to perform our daily routine checkups and to proactively monitor for any issues throughout the day, which helped us prevent and reduce the number of incidents significantly since implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
From personal experience, these are a few things that i would like to see in future versions:
Server monitoring: It would be a nice feature to be able to select the servers inside the cluster that we want to monitor, instead of having, by default, all the servers in the WSFCI added into the dashboard.
Reporting: the reporting functionality is highly useful and customizable, helping us to chose from a large variety of parameters, but it would be great to be able to have a few reports on more generic topics such as: availability group details, database information (size, location, extended properties, etc) , cluster details, user and security configuration details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have been using Redgate SQL Monitor for a few years now, after testing several competing solutions, and although, it is a bit pricey (although, considering the work and continuous development invested in the application, it is NOT pricey), I strongly consider that the solution is worth every cent.
Especially when monitoring vast environments, you get a holistic view on your estate health and can easily and quickly identify if something is not working as expected so that you can proactively intervene.
Implementation is a breeze as well.
Customer support is amazing and very, very responsive.
Easy problem identification thanks to the vast amount of information available, easy monitoring of the estate at a single view.
I am strongly encouraging everyone to test this solution, as it provides a friendly overview for novice or seasoned DBAs and, not only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I consider that the updates installation, could be improved, a bit, so that the experience can reach the same level as the product itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It proactively gathers metrics, so you have the data you need to troubleshoot even if you didn't know in advance that you would need to collect some specific metric. The analysis and alerting tools are rich and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If you have servers in an AlwaysOn Availability Group, it wants to connect to all of them as well as the load balancer. If your load balancer isn't configured to pass WMI as well as SQL traffic, SQL Monitor will fail to install. That can be a problem if you don't have permission to change the load balancer configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
