SQL Monitor Reviews

Pros

The most important and best feature of sql monitor is the detailed description of the job which we scheduled. If you are frequent user of sql monitor so you don’t need to use any other monitoring tool.

Cons

The only alarming thing is it takes many resources.

Pros

Excellent Customer Service.Frequent Updates and Improvements.Insights and reporting for DBAs to monitor across multiple Servers.

Cons

Pricing is a bit steep for a product that only is being used for daily monitoring.

Pros

Nicely presented stats and metrics, easy to use tool

Cons

Not very many benefits really if you know what you're looking for already and have existing more central monitoring tools.

Pros

Gives you deep insight on the database and (SQL Server) instance level to check out the health of your entire SQL Server Estate in near real time.
Quickly drilldown to reported potential problems, such as long running queries, analyse actual queryplans and get recommendations from that as well.

Many possibilities to configure alerts and notifications way down to individual processes, jobs or at a higher level like database or server instance ...

They have a superb support crew and are introducing new features and functionality at high speed, realy listening very closely to users for feature requests ...

Cons

Takes a while to get a good understanding of what you're looking at, but once you watch the onlne videos or documentation it's a great asset in monitoring the SQL Server estate.

Pros

I was on the beta test team and have seen the product grow from a very basic monitoring tool into one that puts nearly anything I would want to look at, right at my fingertips. Not only am I warned when conditions are getting ugly, I can very quickly figure out why! But the most importantly thing about the product, is the development cycle. They are constantly fixing and improving it with updates/patches nearly every 2 weeks.

Cons

I want to preface this with nearly all updates go without a hitch, but ... With such an aggressive release schedule, testing is obviously limited. This only happened once in the 10 years of the product, but I was one of the casualties. There was an update that left a transaction open in a version of SQL Server, that was a few releases back. You do this with software that does a lot for a long time, and things start to break.

Pros

I love the customization of alerts and the email feature that goes with them as well the ability to see all servers' health at a glance on the Overview page. Creating custom reports is also a handy feature.

Cons

The initial setup and the adding of servers was not easy and required some hit and miss before getting it right. The default settings for alerts are set a bit too high for our system and I had to lessen them to avoid mass email alerts. Also, and it may already exist, it would be nice to choose to ignore offline databases.

Pros

Easy to install and upgrade
Team delivers regular releases with new features and bug fixes
Configurable alerts for monitoring
Customizable reports and alerts
Handles large environments
Exceptional customer service
Intuitive interface

Cons

Performance analysis is stronger in some other products. We use Redgate for monitoring and basic troubleshooting but we use another product for deep dives into performance analysis and troubleshooting. In most cases, however, Redgate Monitor is sufficient and easy to use and the team seems to be actively working on improvements.

Pros

Save hours of code debugging time by allowing to intercept calls to database.

Cons

Searching of objects can be improved I.e window keeps refreshing to tough to find objects.

Pros

-Easy to set up.
-UI is easy to navigate
-Great insight on database issues
-Alerts are very configurable

Cons

-When you put servers into categories, the category name doesn't fully display on the dashboard.

Pros

SQL Monitor is easy to use and handy for monitoring multi server environments

Cons

I have never been fond of the interface.

Pros

One of the best tools I've seen for SQL monitoring. Its interface has a very good usability.

Cons

Adapting to daily use was not the easiest. But nothing a couple of weeks of deep diving can't fix.

Pros

Helpful Monitoring Features like CPU, MEmory, Active Sessions and query

Cons

Configurations with different options set up for Alert

Pros

Easy to use, great interface design. Lets me see the status of our servers and investigate historical problems.

Cons

Still some missing config options around alarms, but Redgate is improving it all the time.

Pros

Great tools to monitor the size of databases in relation to their disk size and to figure out which tasks/scripts are truly impacting the database. The free trial was very helpful to try these functionalities out.

Cons

The price tag for a single server was a bit steep; but the free trial helps alleviates concerns.

Pros

A tool that can help proactively monitor your SQL server and fix problems quickly. Easy to use, one control panel.

Cons

I don't it supports anything else but Microsoft SQL server.

Pros

-Very easy to setup
-Equally easy to navigate
-Can setup alerts to proactively notify the team of any issues rather than continuous monitoring
-One of the best user interfaces for SQL monitoring available

Cons

-There are more robust solutions (such as New Relic, Solarwinds, and Azure functions)
-No other cons... for what it is, we will continue to use this with our SQL Toolbelt.