Redgate Champions Cloud Adoption with Full Support for Azure in its SQL Server Monitoring Tool

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Cambridge UK – Tuesday 19 February 2019 — /BackupReview.info/ — Recognizing the increasing take-up of cloud storage, the latest version of Redgate’s SQL Monitor enables entire SQL Server estates to be managed and monitored from one dashboard, whether they are on-premises or in the Azure cloud. After months in development, SQL Monitor v9 gives users the ability to seamlessly monitor hybrid and cloud estates, including both Azure Managed Instances and SQL Database Elastic Pools.

This is an important move because cloud adoption rates are increasing, as highlighted in Redgate’s recently released 2019 State of Database DevOps Report. Drawing insights from over 1,000 participants and now in its third year, it revealed that 50% of organizations are now taking advantage of the cloud, with 19% hosting their servers mostly or wholly in the cloud, and 31% using a combination of cloud and on-premises servers.

However, as the size, complexity and mix of SQL Server estates increases, so does the need for a third party monitoring tool. Indeed, the report also showed that while 23% of organizations with ten servers or fewer use a third-party tool, this rises to 51% in organizations with over 500 servers.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise because manual monitoring using hand-rolled scripts can provide basic information like wait stats and memory utilization, but falls over when it comes to spotting trends and issues, or helping with capacity planning, performance problems, or troublesome queries.

To resolve this, SQL Monitor now offers full support and management for SQL databases hosted on Azure, and includes 14 Azure-specific alerts and 36 Azure-specific metrics. From one dashboard, users can monitor their entire SQL Server estate, whether on-premises or in Azure, and know instantly when any problem on any server arises.

As Anthony Nocentino, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Enterprise Architect, comments: “I typically see companies using on-premises SQL Server for legacy databases or where a strategic decision hasn’t been made yet about migrating to the cloud, which better equips them to deal with fluctuating demand in storage and compute capacity. Wherever they are, though, they still want to monitor the performance and discover any issues before they have an impact. SQL Monitor’s ability to manage large and mixed SQL Server estates from the same dashboard at the same time is a great way of easing the monitoring burden, which is becoming more complex.”

That complexity is eased further with the ability to view disk usage across an entire estate and use predictive trends to accurately estimate future requirements, and manage backups from a central location and quickly see where attention is needed.

The update also helps with auditing and compliance by showing users what versions of SQL Server exist across their estate, whether they’re supported, and any patches or new versions which are available. It then lets users download updates from within SQL Monitor so that they can be sure their servers are up to date and patched safely.

And to simplify licensing issues, the SQL Monitor licensing model now matches the Azure licensing model, making the ongoing management of SQL Server estates easy and straightforward.

To give users an opportunity to assess how useful SQL Monitor is compared to their current monitoring solution, a 14-day, fully-functional free trial of the tool is available.

About Redgate Software
Redgate makes ingeniously simple software used by over 800,000 IT professionals and is the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor. Redgate’s philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools which elegantly solve the problems developers and DBAs face every day, and help them to adopt compliant database DevOps. As well as streamlining database development and preventing the database being a bottleneck, this helps organizations introduce data protection by design and by default. As a result, more than 100,000 companies use Redgate tools, including 91% of those in the Fortune 100.

For more information, visit: www.red-gate.com

For further information, please contact:
Jamie Wallis, Product Marketing Manager, Redgate Software
Jamie.Wallis@red-gate.com

Matt Hilbert, Technology Writer, Redgate Software
Matt.Hilbert@red-gate.com
07564 778274

Source: Redgate 

Tags: Azure, Microsoft, Redgate