Know your SQL Servers are healthy
Monitor every SQL Server from a single dashboard. Detect failed jobs, backup issues, availability group lag and performance problems before they become outages.
No agents. No sysadmin required.
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Why it's different
The visibility most IT teams wish they had, without the complexity of an enterprise monitoring platform.
- No agents on your SQL Servers
- No sysadmin required
- Deploy in under 1 hour
- Unlimited SQL instances
- Built specifically for SQL Server
What we watch
The problems that cause outages and data loss, checked on every instance, all the time.
Pricing
One deployment fee, then one monthly price however many SQL Servers you run.
- Install SIdbMonitor
- Discover SQL instances
- Configure monitoring
- Configure alerting
- Configure security
- Verify connectivity
- Review initial findings
Most deployments are live in less than an hour.
- Unlimited SQL Servers
- Unlimited monitoring
- Unlimited alerts
- Health assessments
- Dashboard access
- Email support
- Product updates
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
How it works
Schedule your deployment
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Install on one Windows server
SIdbMonitor runs on a single Windows server. Nothing is installed on your SQL Servers.
Discover or add your instances
We discover the SQL Server instances on your network, or add them by name, and connect to each one.
Start receiving alerts
Alerts and health insights from every instance, in one dashboard.
Who it's for
- Small IT departments
- Manufacturers
- Healthcare clinics
- Local governments
- MSPs
- Organizations without a dedicated DBA
About the product
SIdbMonitor was created by a SQL Server consultant who got tired of logging into dozens of servers just to find the same problems repeatedly.
It provides the visibility most IT teams wish they had, without the complexity of enterprise monitoring platforms.
Want a one-off, in-depth review instead of ongoing monitoring? See the SQL Server health assessment.
Questions before you book
What does SIdbMonitor run on?
One Windows server, where it runs as a Windows service. Windows Server 2016 or later is recommended. It ships as a self-contained build, so you do not need to install .NET or anything else first. Installing it needs local administrator rights on that server.
Is anything installed on my SQL Servers?
No. SIdbMonitor connects to each SQL Server over the network on TCP port 1433, plus UDP port 1434 if you use automatic instance discovery. Nothing is installed on the SQL Servers themselves.
What permissions does the monitoring login need?
Nothing close to sysadmin or db_owner. At the server level: VIEW SERVER STATE and VIEW ANY DEFINITION. In msdb: SELECT on dbo.sysjobs and dbo.sysjobhistory for SQL Agent job status, and SELECT on dbo.backupset for backup status. In each database you want monitored: a user in db_datareader with VIEW DATABASE STATE. The installer can create these grants for you using sysadmin credentials once at setup. That password is never stored, and the login used for day-to-day monitoring is never sysadmin.
Which SQL Server versions are supported?
SQL Server 2012 and later. Checks that depend on a feature, such as Query Store (2016 and later) or availability groups, simply return nothing on instances that do not use it. Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance are not supported yet.
How do alerts reach us?
Alerts post to a Microsoft Teams channel, or to any tool that accepts a JSON webhook. Email and text message alerts are not available yet.
Where is our monitoring data stored?
On the Windows server SIdbMonitor runs on, and nowhere else. Nothing is sent to a third-party cloud service. Detailed readings are kept for 14 days, then summarized into hourly figures kept for 90 days.
Who can open the dashboard?
By default the dashboard is only reachable from the SIdbMonitor server itself, on port 5000. It can be opened to your network at install time, which also adds the matching Windows Firewall rule.
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