Database estate monitoring for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL (formerly SQL Monitor), with query performance history, alerting and estate-wide health views.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Status
- Active
- Website
- red-gate.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Database monitoring checklist
10 of 10 confirmed in Redgate Monitor's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Databases.
- PostgreSQL Yes
- MySQL or MariaDB Yes
- SQL Server Yes
- MongoDB Yes
- Query statistics Yes
- Explain plans Yes
- Index advice Yes
- Replication Yes
- Locks and waits Yes
- Alerting Yes
Plans, index and blocking views documented for SQL Server; replication as availability-group status
Checked against: red-gate.com, documentation.red-gate.com, documentation.red-gate.com (2), documentation.red-gate.com (3), documentation.red-gate.com (4), documentation.red-gate.com (5)
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