This Friday is the NYC DevOps Devour hour, which is actually 3 hours. Plus a happy hour.
I’ll be there with Kendra Little and Erik Darling talking about DevOps stuff. You can register now and join me in Manhattan from 12:00-3:00p at the 3rd Avenue Industrious office.
We’ll be talking performance problems, cloud migration, and deployment architecture. Come join us if you can.
Redgate Monitor works with more than SQL Server. Some big changes were announced recently, and I’ll cover the highlights here.
This post looks at Redgate Monitor and the additional monitoring available for Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB.
This is part of a series of posts on Redgate Monitor. Click to see the other posts
The world has been slowly growing to embrace more database platforms. Not just as a whole, but I find more and more Redgate clients have lots of different database platforms. Our 2025 State of Database Landscape report shows that while there is a little consolidation from many companies having more than 4 platforms in 2024, there are still plenty that have 2 or 3.
As a result, we’ve been working hard to bring additional capabilities to Redgate Monitor beyond SQL Server. In 2023 we announced PostgreSQL support. Just recently we also added Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB support.
We can see this in the online monitor.red-gate.com demo site. If we scroll down to the staging group, we see both MongoDB and MySQL being monitored.
Below these, we see Oracle 19 and 23 being monitored as well.
If you click into any of these cards, you’ll see there is a limited amount of information now, but we have teams growing and adding the metrics on a weekly basis. Right now, Oracle shows high level metrics and queries.
MySQL is similar
as is MongoDB
The supported platforms are in the docs for Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
Redgate Monitor is growing up. I remember when it was just a small alerting system and now it’s a world class monitoring platform that is growing beyond SQL Server. If you have needs on other platforms, check it out and let us know what’s important to you.
Redgate Monitor is a world class monitoring solution for your database estate. Download a trial today and see how it can help you manage your estate more efficiently.
It likely isn’t a surprise to many of you that executives like AI. A survey shows that 74% of executives surveyed have greater confidence in AI-generated insights than advice from colleagues or friends. At the board level, even more (85%) favor AI-driven advice.
That’s amazing to me, and while I might think this is a bit too much trust being placed in these GenAI LLMs, perhaps it’s also partially because they work with too many people who aren’t great at their jobs. Plenty of people skim through data or focus on certain things and might miss the details. While an AI can read and summarize a lot, it might not have the context we expect. I tend to be a bit skeptical of AI summaries, often because they don’t necessarily weigh the different parts of an article the same way that I do. However, they can be helpful.
Even more interesting, 44% of executives say they would trust a GenAI to override their decisions based on insights, and 38% would trust AI to make decisions on their behalf. Business decisions based on data, or conclusions from a lot of inputs are different than producing working code, so I don’t know how accurate these models might be in this context. I do know that I want experienced people reviewing and judging GenAI outputs, and I would not allow an AI to override me without my input.
However, I wouldn’t just discount a GenAI recommendation. I tend to have strong opinions, but loosely held. I’ll change if there is evidence or a good argument to do so. It’s possible a GenAI might see things I miss and produce an insight that gets me to change a decision.
What’s a bit scary about the stats from this survey is that many executives see a skills gap in their staff, and their trust in GenAI might lead them to replace or augment existing staff with more GenAI tools. They might expect hiring can be delayed or slowed (or eliminated) with GenAI filling gaps. This might be especially true as many tech companies talk about how GenAI tools are making them more efficient.
That means that tech professionals should consider a few things. First, learn to work with GenAI tools and use them to prove your value to an organization. This includes learning when not to use them. Second, continue to improve your skills to ensure you can judge Gen AI results and emphasize that you are still the expert. Lastly, as the technology improves, consider adding some skills in how to train an AI to be a better assistant for you. The more efficient you are, especially with a GenAI helper, the more likely you are to impress executives and managers that are choosing which staff to keep.
Steve Jones
Listen to the podcast at Libsyn, Spotify, or iTunes.
Note, podcasts are only available for a limited time online.
One of our mission statements in the Book of Redgate says: attempt to do the best work of your life.
I’d like to think that at most points in time, people are trying to go good work. There are always times when you are distracted, ill, new child, etc. However, doing the best work of your life? Do you think you are always doing the “best work” at a new place? Or being the best version of yourself at this current position?
I think I am, and this is a good reminder to strive for being the best you can be at that point in time.
The text alongside this value is: We’d like you to achieve your own greatness and to be all that you can be. We’ll try hard to allow that to happen and we’d like you to try hard too.
That’s comforting and inspiring. I do think we try to allow people to grow and achieve things. It’s a nice environment.
I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.
