--- title: "Redgate Monitor Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Redgate Monitor. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Redgate Monitor is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-management/sql-monitor-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Database Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-monitoring/) / [Redgate Monitor](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-management/sql-monitor-profile/) / Redgate Monitor Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-management/sql-monitor-profile/) Reviews # Redgate Monitor User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 16 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.8/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.4/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 8 reviews (50%) - 4 stars: 8 reviews (50%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ## Redgate Monitor customer reviews Showing reviews 1-16 of 16 (page 1). ### Sql monitor is the true monitor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: syed h. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The most important and best feature of sql monitor is the detailed description of the job which we scheduled. If you are frequent user of sql monitor so you don’t need to use any other monitoring tool. #### Cons The only alarming thing is it takes many resources. --- ### DBA's review on Redgate SQL Monitor - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Edwin d. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Get a good overview on what's going on on your SQL Server estate and narrow down potential problems up to the milisecond. Teamleads are getting more and more excited once they run into trouble and are able to pinpoint a most certain bad process! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Gives you deep insight on the database and (SQL Server) instance level to check out the health of your entire SQL Server Estate in near real time. Quickly drilldown to reported potential problems, such as long running queries, analyse actual queryplans and get recommendations from that as well. Many possibilities to configure alerts and notifications way down to individual processes, jobs or at a higher level like database or server instance ... They have a superb support crew and are introducing new features and functionality at high speed, realy listening very closely to users for feature requests ... #### Cons Takes a while to get a good understanding of what you're looking at, but once you watch the onlne videos or documentation it's a great asset in monitoring the SQL Server estate. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear how much SQL Monitor is helping you. Thank you also for the feedback, we're constantly looking at ways to help users get started and have recently introduced new documentation and online learning resources. Replied September 2020 --- ### Visually nice, otherwise not my bag - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Glyn A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used other for free trial - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Nicely presented stats and metrics, easy to use tool #### Cons Not very many benefits really if you know what you're looking for already and have existing more central monitoring tools. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, your feedback helps us to continually improve and update SQL Monitor with new features. Replied September 2020 --- ### Monitor SQL, now easier than ever - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Dandre Adriaan D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall great! Good introduction to various teams I have worked with. I do see a decline in usage as more businesses tend to move away from structured SQL and onsite servers. However SQL Monitor still works well and you tend to miss it when you are working on a server without it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Excellent Customer Service.Frequent Updates and Improvements.Insights and reporting for DBAs to monitor across multiple Servers. #### Cons Pricing is a bit steep for a product that only is being used for daily monitoring. --- ### Outstanding product which is constantly being improved. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robert F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Investment Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It does the work I would need to do myself. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I was on the beta test team and have seen the product grow from a very basic monitoring tool into one that puts nearly anything I would want to look at, right at my fingertips. Not only am I warned when conditions are getting ugly, I can very quickly figure out why! But the most importantly thing about the product, is the development cycle. They are constantly fixing and improving it with updates/patches nearly every 2 weeks. #### Cons I want to preface this with nearly all updates go without a hitch, but ... With such an aggressive release schedule, testing is obviously limited. This only happened once in the 10 years of the product, but I was one of the casualties. There was an update that left a transaction open in a version of SQL Server, that was a few releases back. You do this with software that does a lot for a long time, and things start to break. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear how useful you find SQL Monitor. We're continuously improving the tool, but also refining our development processes and your feedback helps us with both. Replied September 2020 --- ### Great way to monitor your servers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. SQL Monitor has been very useful in detecting server issues before they become a huge problem. I've been able to track down and correct issues that wouldn't have been noticed otherwise using this product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love the customization of alerts and the email feature that goes with them as well the ability to see all servers' health at a glance on the Overview page. Creating custom reports is also a handy feature. #### Cons The initial setup and the adding of servers was not easy and required some hit and miss before getting it right. The default settings for alerts are set a bit too high for our system and I had to lessen them to avoid mass email alerts. Also, and it may already exist, it would be nice to choose to ignore offline databases. #### Reasons for choosing Redgate Monitor We were already using the Toolbelt and I noticed the licenses included SQL Monitor. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you are enjoying the product. Thank you for your feedback about getting started, we are actively looking at ways to improve thisand have recently revamped our documentation to help too. Replied September 2020 --- ### Excellent SQL Server monitor - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Deborah T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Aviation & Aerospace - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to install and upgrade Team delivers regular releases with new features and bug fixes Configurable alerts for monitoring Customizable reports and alerts Handles large environments Exceptional customer service Intuitive interface #### Cons Performance analysis is stronger in some other products. We use Redgate for monitoring and basic troubleshooting but we use another product for deep dives into performance analysis and troubleshooting. In most cases, however, Redgate Monitor is sufficient and easy to use and the team seems to be actively working on improvements. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you are getting a lot out of the product. We're always looking for ways to improve SQL Monitor and your feedback helps us to build our future roadmap. Replied September 2020 --- ### Best tool to have for developer using SQL server - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Save hours of code debugging time by allowing to intercept calls to database. #### Cons Searching of objects can be improved I.e window keeps refreshing to tough to find objects. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear how much SQL Monitor is helping you. We are continuously updating and improving SQL Monitor and your feedback will help with future development. Replied September 2020 --- ### Great Monitoring Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joe S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros -Easy to set up. -UI is easy to navigate -Great insight on database issues -Alerts are very configurable #### Cons -When you put servers into categories, the category name doesn't fully display on the dashboard. #### Reasons for choosing Redgate Monitor I like the suite of other Redgate products. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you are finding SQL Monitor helpful. We are continuously improving the product and have already implemented updates to our categorization functionality, with further updates to come - your feedback helps us to continue to build a great product. Replied September 2020 --- ### Another Handy Product from Redgate - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Christine D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros SQL Monitor is easy to use and handy for monitoring multi server environments #### Cons I have never been fond of the interface. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear how much SQL Monitor is helping you monitor multi-server environments. Replied September 2020 --- ### One of the best monitoring tools - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros One of the best tools I've seen for SQL monitoring. Its interface has a very good usability. #### Cons Adapting to daily use was not the easiest. But nothing a couple of weeks of deep diving can't fix. --- ### EAsy to use and Deploy - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Prashant S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very good tool with price comparisons #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Helpful Monitoring Features like CPU, MEmory, Active Sessions and query #### Cons Configurations with different options set up for Alert --- ### Great tool! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Scott P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Food Production - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, great interface design. Lets me see the status of our servers and investigate historical problems. #### Cons Still some missing config options around alarms, but Redgate is improving it all the time. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you are enjoying SQL Monitor. As you say we are actively developing and improving SQL Monitor features continuously and we will take your feedback on board. Replied September 2020 --- ### Fantastic solution to monitor SQL - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered No one wants to deal with a server crash because you're out of memory on the disk; or some new process was introduced that is slowing down the database; this tool make it so you are no longer caught off guard. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great tools to monitor the size of databases in relation to their disk size and to figure out which tasks/scripts are truly impacting the database. The free trial was very helpful to try these functionalities out. #### Cons The price tag for a single server was a bit steep; but the free trial helps alleviates concerns. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you are enjoying SQL Monitor and that the free trial helped. Replied September 2020 --- ### Great tool to keep an eye on your SQL servers - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Adrian T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use it to keep an eye on our SQL servers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros A tool that can help proactively monitor your SQL server and fix problems quickly. Easy to use, one control panel. #### Cons I don't it supports anything else but Microsoft SQL server. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear how much SQL Monitor is helping you. We are continuously updating and improving SQL Monitor and your feedback will help with future development. Replied September 2020 --- ### RedGate knows SQL - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Warehousing - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. SQL Monitor is just one tool we use to monitor database performance. The alerts are easy to setup and we use it for our primary alert system. While we do have other tools (SolarWinds, New Relic), this is one to keep in the toolbox. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros -Very easy to setup -Equally easy to navigate -Can setup alerts to proactively notify the team of any issues rather than continuous monitoring -One of the best user interfaces for SQL monitoring available #### Cons -There are more robust solutions (such as New Relic, Solarwinds, and Azure functions) -No other cons... for what it is, we will continue to use this with our SQL Toolbelt. #### Vendor response Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you are enjoying using SQL Monitor. Replied September 2020 --- Redgate Monitor Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice