How much does free SQL monitoring really cost?
• by Marcin Gminski
The licence is free. The puppy is not. After eight years of maintaining SQLWATCH Open Source, here is my honest account of what DIY SQL monitoring really costs.
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Introducing Server Cards: See Your Entire SQL Server Estate at a Glance
• by Marcin Gminski
A new way to monitor many SQL Server instances at once - designed for NOC-style operations and anyone who needs to spot problems without scanning rows.
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SQL Server Monitoring for MSPs: Is Your Current Setup Costing You - or Your Clients?
• by Marcin Gminski
Whether you're absorbing enterprise monitoring costs, navigating fragmented client tools, or maintaining a home-built stack - here's how SQLWATCH was built to help MSPs at every stage.
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SQLWATCH should feel like it was built just for you. Now it is.
• by Paul Briley
We listened to your feedback and reimagined our monitoring platform around one core principle: your monitoring, your way. From fully customisable dashboards to intelligent alerts and MSP-focused features.
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SQLWATCH Cloud v2.0: Monitoring That Finally Works The Way You Do
• by Marcin Gminski
Introducing SQLWATCH Cloud 2.0. Because monitoring tools keep forcing you into their workflow instead of yours
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How does monitoring affect your server?
• by Marcin Gminski
The observer effect means that observing a phenomenon changes that phenomenon. Database monitoring will always have some impact on the monitored instance — in some cases as much as 10-20%.
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