Redgate Monitor Reviews & Product Details

Monitor is pretty easy to use

Support are quick to respond when I have an issue

Updates are released regularly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GUI is a bit old looking

There are a few things that seem a bit odd that make me think that someone hasn't thought this through but generally does what it needs.

Documentation and video training has improved since last year Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not many, but to mention some, the alerting feature can be improved. For example, report feature to find trends of past alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It covers all the analytics, and the way the UI displays them—correlated with application logs—makes it one of the best ways to troubleshoot application performance issues and keep DBs healthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it hangs sometimes and sometimes redgate jobs interfere wit my application workloads, rare but still annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

View of what is going on with our SQL Estate at a glance. Being able to easily dig in and see what is causing performance bottlenecks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having to pay for all servers in a cluster can end up costing quite a lot, considering only a single server is ever the active server. The benefit of monitoring the secondaries is minimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is built as database first and comparing to competitors allows to set up proper alerting and monitoring within an hour. With SW i will need a week to set the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RG is big an was acquired recently, I warry about great product potential quality regression.

and you did not give me RG friend status yet :D Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First the licensing model is excellent. It is more affordable than many of the competitors. We have begun to test the AI features which are showing some promise in helping evaluate queries and troubleshoot issues. The tools to identify problematic queries has helped us track down queries that have been impacting production activities. Using alerts for some administrative activities has allowed us to keep track of bloat related to excessive use of linkedservers. I like the dashboard for quickly finding problems and addressing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Updates do not allow for using gMSA accounts to start the needed services. I would like if it could allow that from the GUI update tool. In the top queries tool it would be super helpful to be able to add login name and source host to the display. It takes time to correlate the query in the sql server to find further details on the query. Adding granular permissions for users has been a little clunky for us. But in general not too big a problem as we don't do it often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the dashboard and its tile-style layout. With Redgate Monitor, I especially appreciate being able to keep track of the licenses and versions for each database server as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t like that I can’t kill a running process. I’m also not a fan of the update process. I’ve run into a couple of issues when trying to upgrade Redgate Monitor, and it’s been frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Works seamlessly across platform, single pane of glass view. Equipped with Monitor AI to automatically surface bottlenecks. Avoids “alert fatigue” by letting admins prioritize critical issues. Enterprise edition includes permission visibility and auditing tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its high licensing costs, resource consumption on large estates, and limited customization in alerts and reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use GUI with highly relevant collected data from monitored servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't think of anything specific, it could be that there are some incorrect alerts occasionally, but the ones we have identified, support is usually quick to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fairly easy to set up and use, monitoring is easily digestible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alerting was a bit of a pain to set up but that is a minor nitpick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.