Tag Archives: monitoring

The Slow Growing Problems

Posted on June 15, 2026 by way0utwest

Both as a DBA and developer, I’ve had plenty of immediate, this-is-broken, fix-it-quickly issues. Usually, I, or someone else, wrote some bad code and somehow got it deployed. I mean, I do test things, and I would (probably) never change … Continue reading →

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Multiple Monitoring Tools

Posted on June 20, 2025 by way0utwest

Part of my Redgate work is with customers who need to monitor their database servers. With estates growing quickly, both in scale and types of database platforms used, keeping an eye on everything can be challenging. Add in the lack … Continue reading →

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Scaling Up Monitoring

Posted on May 31, 2023 by way0utwest

Monitoring databases is important when it’s the systems that are in production. Operations departments know that catching issues early, being proactive, and having data to troubleshoot issues make their job easier. Not having these things makes their job much more … Continue reading →

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The Complexity of Metrics

Posted on January 30, 2023 by way0utwest

Monitoring your SQL Server instances is important to ensure you can meet your SLAs. Availability, performance, reliability, quality, whatever you care about, it’s important that whoever is responsible is looking at how the database is performing. At Redgate, we have … Continue reading →

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