Monitoring Tools

  • Anybody have any software that they recommend for monitoring the health of SQL Server. I've been playing with the trial of the Quest one, but I was looking for some other options. Thanks.

  • System Center Operations manager (SCOM) will be best choice to

    monitor both windows and SQL Server. We can install the custom dashboard

    will give nice Reports.

    Regards

    Hema.,

    Regards
    Hema.,

  • We use both SCOM and Idera's Diagnostic Manager. They monitor different stuff in different ways.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Red Gate also have a SQL Server-specific tool, SQL Response, designed to monitor and alert on SQL Server instances. V1 is currently available and we're working on v2 at the moment - you can try an early access version of v2 at:

    http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_response_eap/index.htm

    The current v1 release is available from:

    http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Response/index.htm

  • Depends on what you are doing.

    Red Gate (my employer) has done a lot of work and SQL Response 2 looks like

    SQL Sentry has a performance tool that you can use

    Quest has tools as well

    Many monitoring packages (What's Up, Openview) will monitor servers and the SQL Server counters are visible.

    # servers, budget, etc. will help you determine what to do. If you have Enterprise Edition, management Data warehouse comes with it, though you might want a dedicated server.

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