While for the most part the SaaS version of Redgate Monitor does not differ from the Self Hosted version there are some things worth noting.

Deployment

Self-Hosted: You are responsible for the deployment of the Monitor Web Service and Base Monitor on your own hardware.  You are responsible for hosting a SQL Server or TimescaleDB database which Monitor uses for storage of monitoring data.

SaaS: We (Redgate) are responsible for hosting and managing the Monitor Web Service and Base Monitor for you. In addition, we will host the database required for the storage of monitoring data. We use TimescaleDB as the storage solution. The only component you are responsible for is deploying one or more Agents used to monitor your databases. The monitoring data from your Agents is then sent to our cloud for processing and storage.

Configuration Page

There are fewer settings for you to manage in Monitor SaaS. Settings which we manage for you are not visible on the Configuration Page. You still control which servers you want to monitor, how you want to receive alerts and your display preferences, however we don't allow configuration of items such as retention settings, which are set to the defaults.

Number of databases you can monitor

We currently supported upto the equivalent of 50 monitored instances, we will be raising this limit later this year.

Features currently not available in Monitor SaaS

The following features are currently not available, as a general principle we aim for the SaaS version to be at least functionally equivalent to the self-hosted version and expect to close many of the below soon.

• Current Activity view is not available
• Custom metrics are not available
• The powershell API is not available
• You cannot use SSH keys for connecting to and monitoring Linux servers
• Disk usage information is currently unavailable
• Only the standard edition is available, so no enterprise features are supported at this time