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The latest release of Redgate’s database monitoring tool, SQL Monitor, now supports Amazon EC2 and RDS, and Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instances as well as on-premises SQL Server.

A new global dashboard allows users to check the health of their entire SQL Server estate at a glance and pinpoint issues with individual servers and instances, wherever they are, however large the estate.

The new SQL Monitor keeps the user-experience consistent, and allows organizations to focus on responsiveness, improving performance and supporting business-critical areas, rather than trying to understand the complexity across database platforms. It also brings consistency and familiarity to database monitoring, and avoids the learning curve, cost and time involved in using multiple monitoring tools for different databases.

This accelerated move to the cloud reflects how organizations are looking to reap the benefits that cloud platforms offer, even if it means that managing and monitoring server estates become more complex and difficult. Different use cases and requirements make choosing a single cloud offering rare and many server estates now feature a changing mixture of on-premises servers and platforms like Amazon and Azure.

To support these business needs and keep up with the evolution of hybrid server estates, it’s critical that organizations have the ability to monitor every type of server and instance with the same monitoring tool, using a consistent approach to minimize the time and effort involved. This ensures the availability, security and performance of all the databases across different hosts can be managed far more easily and effectively.

The development team behind SQL Monitor are now looking to add more estate management capabilities to the tool like providing security related information on demand, and automating the discovery and inventory of entire SQL Server estates.