Choosing the right monitoring tool for your organization goes beyond feature comparison and quite often even price. While you will likely have a budget to stick to and need to ensure the costs of the tool don’t exceed it, there are other factors you should consider when selecting the right tool for your organization. Drawing on his 20 years’ experience in IT, Microsoft MVP Grant Fritchey explores in this presentation the following aspects of your monitoring selection process: - Quantifying why change makes sense with monitoring - Implementation hurdles and how to overcome them - How to demonstrate success with your monitoring initiative after purchase

1. Grant Fritchey
Product Advocate, Redgate Software

2. 314
Redgaters and
counting
19
years old
202,000
customers
2m
SQL Server Central
and Simple Talk users
91%
of the Fortune 100 use
our tools
6m
website visits each
year
1286
product releases last
year
70
User Groups
sponsored

5. No monitoring at all
Self-built
Incomplete
3rd Party

6. Cloud
Virtual machines
Availability groups
SQL Server specialization

7. “There has been a 15% increase in people
using SQL Server in the cloud for at least
part of their estate since 2018, with the
use of hybrid estates becoming more
common.”
https://www.red-gate.com/products/dba/sql-
monitor/resources/state-of-sql-server-monitoring/

8. More servers
Growing data
Cloud
Regulatory landscape

9. DevOps
Shift Left
Added protection

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12. Phased rollout
Tuning alerts
Building customized alerts
Training

13. No alerting = no signal
Too much alerting = noise
Guidance on alerts
Ability to customize and control alerts
Send the message where people live

14. What is the state of the
servers currently?
Where are the servers
headed?
How did the servers behave
in the past?

15. Deployment monitoring
Use the data to drive
innovation
Assist active development

17. Share problems solved
within the team
Illustrate problems
prevented
Track the time saved

18. Across teams
Between disciplines
Across departments

19. Illustrate the challenges
Celebrate the success

20. 2019 State of SQL
Server Monitoring
Redgate
University
Simple-Talk Redgate Hub

21. • Hay
• Wave
• Mountain Top