Redgate Monitor

Azure SQL Database Monitoring

A single pane of glass to look at your Azure databases and your on-premises servers at the same time

Manage your entire SQL Server estate, with instant problem diagnosis, intelligent and customizable alerting. All from a single pane of glass.

Whether your databases are hosted on premises, in the cloud or a mixture of both, you can be sure you can always have the answers to the health of your estate, and proactively find potential problems before they impact your users.

"SQL Monitor lets us quickly know what the exact problem is so we can jump on it and fix it before the customer even notices."
Nick Percy, Senior DBA, Claranet

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Rapidly identify and diagnose problems unique to the Azure platform

While under the covers an Azure SQL Database or Azure Managed Instance, at their core, are just versions of SQL Server, the details of the unique implementation requires a unique monitoring solution.

Redgate Monitor is built to provide a monitoring for your Azure Databases. This ensures that you have the same kind of knowledge and management abilities within Azure that you’re used to with on-premises SQL Server instances.

Migrate to Azure with confidence

As you begin the process of moving your data management to Azure SQL Databases, you’ll quickly realize that you need to monitor those servers much the same way as you do other instances of SQL Server.

While the Azure portal offers ways to build out a dashboard manually to achieve this, that does entail quite a bit of work and knowledge on your part. Further, while it will make it so you can see your Azure resources, it doesn’t monitor your local instances of SQL Server. In order to both keep an eye on your Azure resources and your local resources, you’re going to want to use a tool like Redgate Monitor.

Azure specific information

Redgate Monitor is built to monitor SQL Server instances and databases, but it also has direct support for Azure SQL Databases. This means that traditional monitoring that you need within Azure SQL Database such as blocking, deadlocks, and query behaviors are included. However, Redgate Monitor also includes the unique elements that Azure SQL introduces such as tracking vCore or DTU use. This means that you get both kinds of monitoring in a well defined user interface.

Whether you’re using Managed Instances, Azure SQL Database databases, Elastic Pools, or any of the other Azure offerings, Redgate Monitor is ready to use to keep track of the overall health of your Azure Servers. For more detail on exactly how Redgate Monitor works with Azure, you can read this article.

Azure knowledge and support

Redgate has been working within Azure for a very long time. That knowledge and experience are built into Redgate Monitor. However, we also have additional resources from lessons at Redgate University, to articles on our Learning Hub, to webinars from our Product Advocates. We can help you transition to Azure as well as use our tools effectively there.

Top rated and trusted for database monitoring

“SQL Monitor lets us quickly know what the exact problem is so we can jump on it and fix it before the customer even notices.”
Nick Percy
Senior DBA, ClaranetRead the case study

“The alerting is really helpful, being able to filter out the noise and get exactly what we need.”
Phil Grayson
Consultant, xTENRead the case study

Pricing and editions

Monitor one of the below per server license

x1 server (Multiple instances)

You will require one license per server, regardless of how many instances are on that server.

x5 Azure SQL Databases

One Redgate Monitor license allows you to monitor up to 5 Azure SQL Databases.

x1 Cloud (PaaS) instance

You can monitor 1 x server instance hosted on either Microsoft Azure Managed Instances or Amazon RDS with one Redgate Monitor license

x1 Cluster node

Redgate Monitor supports monitoring Windows failover clusters. You will need one license for each node in a monitored cluster. Other proprietary clustering server systems aren't supported, and might not behave as expected.

x1 Virtual machine

You can monitor database instances running on Virtual Machines (VMs). One Redgate Monitor license is required per VM being monitored.

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Standard

$1,098 per server, per year

Ideal for businesses looking for a powerful, comprehensive database monitoring solution.

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Standard includes:

Global overview
Diagnosis
Alerting
Deployments
Query impact
Cross-platform monitoring

Enterprise

The perfect choice for large organizations requiring advanced monitoring capabilities.

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Everything in Standard plus:

Security monitoring & auditing
High Availability architecture
Data API

Key features

Global Overview – See all your Azure resources in one place
While working with Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance, you may have lots of different databases supporting your infrastructure. Using Redgate Monitor lets you see all those different databases in a single place in order to more quickly understand that current status of your enterprise.
Diagnosis - Azure specific knowledge to assist troubleshooting
Whether you’re using DTU or vCPU, or you have your databases in a Pool, Redgate Monitor has the built-in monitoring metrics unique to Azure in order to support your understanding of the behavior of your systems.
Alerting - Immediate information about your Azure databases
Redgate Monitor includes built-in alerts specific to Azure databases so you can immediately know if there’s an issue. Further, many of the standard alerts are immediately applicable to Azure SQL Database. Finally, you can create customized alerts, as well as customize the existing alert thresholds, in order to make the system work the way you need it.
Query impact – Finding and fixing bad query performance in order to reduce Azure costs
One of the biggest problems within Azure SQL Database is how bad code, poor indexing, or out of date statistics can lead to not only bad performance, but increased costs. Redgate Monitor can quickly identify poorly performing queries, excessive waits, and guide you in possible solutions in order to help you reduce your Azure costs.
Hybrid Monitoring – Your Azure databases and your local instances in one pane of glass
Since Redgate Monitor works with both on-premises SQL Server instances and your cloud-based Azure databases, your hybrid environment is supported, day one. A single pane of glass lets you see your estate, regardless of where the database lives.