SQL Monitor is a web-based monitoring and alerting tool for SQL Servers. It displays real-time data about the current performance of all host machines, SQL Server instances, and databases that you choose to monitor, and raises alerts when problems occur. Use SQL Monitor to:

• Identify servers that require attention using the Global Overview
• Drill down to view the current health and performance of any server or database
• View detailed alerts for a wide range of issues such as job failures, deadlocks, overdue backups and fragmented indexes
• Configure each type of alert for each server, job, database etc., to suit your environment; and set up email notifications
• Analyze performance metrics over time to determine performance trends and identify abnormal performance
• Create custom metrics and alerts to collect the metric data you're most interested in, and alert you to changes specific to your environment
• Automatically install custom metrics and alerts from Red Gate's online resource for SQL Monitor metrics
• "Rewind time" to review the activity on your servers when a problem occurred in the past
• Run your own reports against the Data Repository SQL Server database that contains monitored data

What's new in version 3.5

Version 3.5 includes support for baselining metrics. See Using a baseline for comparison.

We've also fixed a number of bugs. For more details, see SQL Monitor 3.5 release notes.

Worked examples

To learn about using SQL Monitor, see: 

• Using SQL Monitor for the first time
• Example configuration using virtualization software