Why another database monitoring tool?
There are a lot of database tools out there. And most of them are very good. Most of them are packed with features and can do just about anything you might want to do. They are complicated. And they are expensive.
Sometimes what we want as developers is a simple tool that does one thing very well and it does it for a low price. And that’s what SQLHealth is. It monitors the availability and performance of databases and their SQL queries and helps you understand if everything is working correctly. SQLHealth differs from most tools in the following ways:
It focusses on simplicity - presenting information in a way that is easy and quick to understand
If is cost effective - making it pragmatic to have more of your development or operations teams using the tool
It has a modern user interface - to practically eliminate learning curve and making it easy to complete jobs to be done
Development teams can afford to use SQLHealth during the development process to better understand the impact of their code on the database. This allows for a “shift left” philosophy to be applied to database development. Being simple to use and understand, any member of a development (even those without specialist DB skills) can become productive and effective quickly. Because it is priced by database and not user, it is cost effective to have everyone in the team using the tool.
Operations teams can be setup alerts and share amongst the entire team quickly - confident that that the tool is sufficiently easy to learn that even non-database specialists can become productive quickly. With the focus on simplicity, operations staff will be presented with information in a way that allows them to understand and respond quickly. I