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$1,164 per server per year
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  1. Professional services (engineering, legal, consulting, etc.)
  2. Banking and insurance
  3. Construction

What is Redgate Monitor

Redgate Monitor is a database monitoring tool for tracking performance, availability, and operational health across database servers. It is used by database administrators and operations teams to identify bottlenecks, investigate incidents, and establish baselines for normal behavior. The product focuses on database-centric metrics and alerting, with drill-down views for query and resource analysis and reporting for historical trends.

pros

Database-focused monitoring depth

It provides monitoring views and metrics oriented around database performance and health rather than general host-only telemetry. This helps teams diagnose issues such as slow queries, blocking, and resource contention using database-relevant context. The emphasis on database baselines and historical comparisons supports performance troubleshooting and capacity planning.

Alerting with baselines

It supports alerting that can be tuned using baselines and thresholds to reduce noise compared with static limits. This is useful for environments where “normal” varies by time of day or workload. Alerts link back to contextual performance data to support faster triage.

Centralized estate visibility

It consolidates monitoring across multiple database instances into a single console for cross-server comparison. This helps teams standardize monitoring and reporting across environments. Centralized dashboards and historical reporting support operational reviews and stakeholder communication.

cons

Narrower than full observability

It is primarily designed for database monitoring rather than end-to-end application observability. Organizations that need distributed tracing, broad APM, and unified telemetry across many infrastructure layers may require additional tooling. This can increase operational complexity when correlating database issues with upstream application behavior.

Best fit for specific databases

Coverage and depth are strongest for the database platforms the product targets most directly, and capabilities can vary by engine/version. Teams running a heterogeneous mix of databases may find gaps compared with tools built for broad multi-database monitoring. This can lead to inconsistent monitoring standards across the estate.

On-prem management overhead

Deploying and maintaining the monitoring server, storage, and upgrades can add administrative overhead compared with fully managed monitoring services. Retention of historical metrics and report generation can require planning for storage and performance. Larger estates may need additional sizing and tuning to keep collection and UI responsive.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
Standard $1,164 per server, per year (equivalent to $97 per server, per month when billed annually) Real-time multi-platform monitoring, alerts, diagnostics, deployments, query-impact analysis. Licensed per server (one license per physical/VM/cluster node; one license covers up to 5 Azure SQL Databases; one license per Managed Instance/Cloud PaaS instance). Available as self-hosted or SaaS. Quantity pricing tiers are shown on the vendor site (1–4, 5–9, 10–19); 20+ servers requires contacting sales.
Enterprise Custom pricing (contact Redgate) Everything in Standard plus security monitoring & auditing, high-availability architecture, Data API, sensitive action log. Available via AWS and Microsoft Azure Marketplaces; contact sales for quotes.

Seller details

Redgate Software Ltd
Cambridge, United Kingdom
1999
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https://www.red-gate.com/
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