Redgate Monitor Enterprise
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Excellent tool, but pricey
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifying resource bottlenecks, preventing system outages, projecting future resource consumption
Intuitive and really useful for troubleshooting SQL server issues
What do you like best about the product?
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
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
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL Monitoring has been helping the Database team to perform the daily monitoring checks (backups, overall health, availability, etc) within a single, user-frendly interface. It contributed a lot in proactively monitoring and preventing incidents to our environments.
All your monitoring needs in one package
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
I consider that the updates installation, could be improved, a bit, so that the experience can reach the same level as the product itself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us, SQL Monitor is providing a glass pane to check the state of the estate, to check the Agent jobs outcome, waits, performance of the servers, deadlocks, long queries, disk capacity and so, so many other potential problems that can be addressed before any impact is seen on the end-user side.
Great proactive monitoring, but difficult to set up with an AlwaysOn Availability Group
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proactive monitoring of SQL servers in production environments. Rich data for troubleshooting problems.
Redgate SQL monitor Review
What do you like best about the product?
The software is open source and free for the people who wants to learn SQL and would like to join the SQL related professions. It is easily integrated with visual studio.
What do you dislike about the product?
The database and scripts need to be run according to the windows version, which is 64 or 32 bit. We need to open the SSMS to import the database if the size of the file is huge. It is a little annoying.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a management tool for different Databases and has global usability. The deploy function of Redgate is quite advanced and user friendly and helps to deploy the functionalities for multiple databases.
Centralized Monitoring Tool for our Amazon Relational Database Cluster - SQL Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
SQL Monitor effectively helps me overcome various bottlenecks of my SQL servers and ensures performance utilization with high efficiency. It provides high availability and failover notifications for both our active and passive nodes in our cluster. Capacity planning is also great for managing our memory and buffer allocation with SQL Monitor.
What do you dislike about the product?
More workload is imposed in our SQL server as SQL monitor operates 24/7 for monitoring server activities. In order to improve this workload, we can opt for database clusters with a large number of worker nodes to optimize capacity management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL Monitor effectively monitors our Amazon RDS clusters. It provides detailed performance metrics and notification alerts. As its centralized monitoring tool, there isn't any location or platform dependencies involved. Troubleshooting is great as I am able to group our RDS performance metrics & I can customize our instance alerts based on client priotity standards. API integration is seamless between Amazon Relational Database Service and SQL Monitor which is a big positive aspect for our continuous monitoring requirements.
SQL Monitor gets the job done.
What do you like best about the product?
I can see all my servers on a single window. I can see their health and instantly drill down for a more detailed look at what's going on.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be cumbersome to set up and configure, but overall worth the effort.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We know immediately if a server isn't performing optimally. And we can instantly see the data we need to address the issue.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get training on the product, and be ready to be amazed!
Excellent product, easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Simple interface, easy to customize. Color coding is pleasant. Frequent updates
What do you dislike about the product?
Drilling down can sometimes take weird steps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring SQL Server for blocks and unauthorized access. Displays restarts and long queries, Job deviations. I like how it groups similar errors together to simplify review. You can also segment servers into groups like Production UAT and DEV. Support is excellent too. Quick to respond, and knowledgebase is excellent for self serve support as well. I find Red-Gate to be an excellent company, supporting the Database users community extensively.
Redgate tools are a must have for anyone with a big SQL server instance
What do you like best about the product?
Redgate's tools just work and SQL Monitor is no different. I have used a lot of tools but the redgate tools zero in on what you need to know and cut out the noise. It is very easy to diagnose your problems and get alerts before problems hit you out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. Maybe pricing? The redgate stuff can tend to get expensive if you have a lot of instances. For example, we had one MASSIVE server that absolutely required a license. We also had 40 instances that needed very light monitoring - it was just too expensive to go with SQL Monitor for all those little instances.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In a 24 hour organization - up time is a must. It gave us a fighting chance against all of those problems that just "come up". Poorly performing execution plans, drive size, paging issues, memory, hug threads, bad actor users... it does it all.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at their entire suite of tools. Even the sql cloning stuff they have is a life send if you have a development shop that needs a lot of instances or data refreshes. They can even manipulate data and scramble data for test environments. Makes it really easy.
Monitor your SQL server from a single panel
What do you like best about the product?
If you are not a full time Database Administrator but would like to be proactive in monitoring your SQL servers this is brilliant.
What do you dislike about the product?
It only support Microsoft SQL servers which is not yet the only available solution out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps us being a proactive support team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Keep improving, maybe adding support for other non-Microsoft products is worth it as well? .
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