These are the minimum permissions required to run SQL Monitor and monitor your servers. To test the permissions, see  Testing data collection methods

Web service account

• The account should have Log on as service rights.  For information on how to assign these permissions, see Add the Log on as a service right to an account.
• The account should have Full Control over the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Red Gate\SQL Monitor. For Vista and Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\Red Gate\SQL Monitor.
• The account should have Full Control over the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Red Gate\Logs\SQL Monitor or equivalent location.
• The account should be able to reserve the port the web service is configured to use.  If the user is not a local admin, run the following substituting the correct values for your installation:

	       netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:8080/ user=yourdomain\youruser

Monitoring service account

• The account should have Log on as service rights. For information on how to assign these permissions, see Add the Log on as a service right to an account.
• The account should have Full Control over the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Red Gate\Logs\SQL Monitor. For Vista and Windows 7 : C:\ProgramData\Red Gate\Logs\SQL Monitor.
• The login should be a member of the db_owner database role on the Data Repository database (called RedGateMonitor by default).

Monitoring host Windows machines

• The account should be an administrator on the remote Windows host machine. 
• The account should have login rights locally on the machine where the base monitor is installed, so that SQL Monitor can authenticate the account.

Monitoring SQL Server instances

The account used to monitor your SQL Server instance should have the following permissions:

• member of the sysadmin role (role required for Integrity check overdue alerts (to run DBCC DBINFO) and to allow SQL Monitor to turn on the deadlock trace flag).

• member of the db_datareader role on the msdb system database.
• member of SQLAgentReader role on the msdb system database.
• member of the db_ddladmin database role on all databases (needed to run sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats()  required by the Fragmented index alert).
• VIEW ANY DEFINITION server permission.
• ALTER TRACE server permission (if you want to enable trace data).
• VIEW SERVER STATE and VIEW DATABASE STATE database permissions on all databases.
• member of the db_owner  role on the tempdb database.
• EXECUTE on xp_readerrorlog.

Monitoring Azure SQL Servers

• The account used to monitor your Azure SQL Server must be the server admin account used to create the Azure SQL Server.