The use of database monitoring technologies is on the rise.

Database monitoring technologies

According to a Redgate Software survey, 79 percent of database professionals today use paid or in-house monitoring tools. It is up to ten percentage points from last year’s study, and the 86 percent satisfaction rate with paid-for monitoring tools is also at an all-time high, up 18 percentage points from the year before.

The rise is partly due to database estates’ continued growth and complexity, with IDC forecasting a 240 percent increase in installed storage capacity between 2021 and 2025 and practically every business sector seeing a significant migration to the cloud.

According to the survey, organizations expect the efficiency and performance of growing estates to be maintained, compliance and security concerns to be adequately addressed, and monitoring data visibility to be stretched beyond Database Administrators to developers and IT teams, among other things.

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As a result, DBAs are under increased pressure, with many claiming that they are expected to perform more with less. As a result, database monitoring solutions are becoming more popular. They appear to minimize frustration, save time, and allow DBAs to focus their attention on adding value to the business in other ways.

While a DBA may be responsible for just one SQL Server instance, Kathi Kellenberger, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Simple-Talk editor at Redgate, explain, “In most cases, a DBA is accountable for dozens, if not thousands.”Without a vital monitoring tool, the DBA would be continually putting out fires rather than learning about and exploiting new features, optimizing badly performing queries, planning for future systems, and contributing to more valuable tasks.”

A good monitoring tool can give a DBA and the rest of the IT team a single pane of glass to monitor all of the SQL Server instances they manage, both on-premises and in the cloud, send alerts when problems arise, and drill down to the root cause in minutes rather than hours, as manual monitoring would.

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