I am the creator and primary developer of Database Health Monitor, a SQL Server monitoring and diagnostic application that I have been developing for more than 15 years. It began as a collection of tools I needed for my own consulting work and has grown into a comprehensive application used by database professionals around the world.
Database Health Monitor helps DBAs and developers understand what is happening inside their SQL Server environments.
What it covers
- Wait statistics
- Blocking and deadlocks
- Job history
- Database growth
- TempDB usage
- Query performance
- Configuration problems
- Backups
…and many other areas that affect SQL Server health.
The idea behind it
A monitoring product should do more than display charts—it should help the person looking at the screen understand what changed, why it matters, and where to investigate next.