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Redgate Monitor in Saudi Arabia: editions, licensing and onboarding
Redgate Monitor is Redgate's database monitoring and alerting tool: one web-based view of SQL Server and PostgreSQL instances, wherever they run, with the query, wait, blocking, backup and capacity detail DBAs need. It comes self-hosted or as a fully managed SaaS edition, in Standard and Enterprise editions, licensed per server per year. Interkey quotes the Redgate Monitor licence at Redgate's terms beside our own work, then installs, connects, tunes and hands it over to your team in Saudi Arabia, with support from Riyadh.
In short, for executives
- What it covers: SQL Server and PostgreSQL, on premises and on the main cloud database services, in one estate view. Redgate lists further platforms too.
- Editions: Standard and Enterprise, each self-hosted or SaaS.
- Licensing: per server, per year, on Redgate's terms. Enterprise is priced by Redgate on request.
- What Interkey does: the licence quote, the deployment decision, installation, alert tuning, handover and support from Riyadh.
At a glance
| Question | Answer |
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| What it is | Redgate's database monitoring and alerting tool, with one web-based view of the estate |
| Databases | SQL Server 2008 R2 and later, PostgreSQL 10 and later, MySQL 8.0 and later, among others Redgate lists |
| Where it runs | Self-hosted on infrastructure you operate, or as Redgate's fully managed SaaS edition |
| Editions | Standard and Enterprise |
| How it is licensed | Per server, per year, in bands by number of servers |
| Trial | A 14-day free trial from Redgate |
| From Interkey | The quote, deployment design, installation, alert tuning, training, handover and support |
What Redgate Monitor is, and how it is built
Redgate describes Redgate Monitor as a multi-platform tool for supervising many database instances from one dashboard, on premises or in the cloud. A DBA starts from the global dashboard and drills into one server: top queries with their execution plans, top waits, blocking and deadlocks, host metrics, backups, jobs and disk space. Alerts arrive in an alert inbox and can be routed by email and to other tools. Redgate's older web addresses, documentation and training still use the earlier name, SQL Monitor, so a search for SQL Monitor or Redgate SQL Monitor leads to the same product.
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A self-hosted installation has three parts, as Redgate's documentation sets them out:
- Base Monitor. A Windows or Linux service that connects to the monitored instances, collects the data and raises the alerts.
- Data repository. The database that stores the metrics, alerts and configuration: SQL Server, or PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB.
- Web server. It serves the web console and the PowerShell API, and authenticates users.
With the SaaS edition Redgate runs these parts for you.
Which platforms Redgate Monitor supports
This is how Redgate lists support as of November 2026. Support changes between releases, so we confirm your exact versions and services during scoping.
| Platform | Where it can run | What to prepare |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Server 2008 R2 and later | Windows and Linux machines, clusters and availability groups; Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and Amazon RDS | A monitoring account with the permissions Redgate documents, and network paths from the Base Monitor |
| PostgreSQL 10 and later | Linux and Windows; Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Google Cloud SQL and AlloyDB | The pg_stat_statements and auto_explain extensions, a monitoring role with pg_monitor, and access to the logs |
| MySQL 8.0 and later | As Redgate lists for each release | Confirmed during scoping |
| The host machines | Physical servers and virtual machines | Machine counters over WMI on Windows and SSH on Linux, or the cloud provider's monitoring roles |
Redgate lists other platforms too. If part of your estate runs on one, we check its support with Redgate before the quote.
One estate view across SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Many estates in the Kingdom now run both engines: SQL Server behind long-standing business systems, PostgreSQL behind newer applications and cloud services. Redgate Monitor puts both on the same dashboard, alert inbox and user roles, so the on-call DBA needs no second console. Each engine keeps its own metrics: on SQL Server the dynamic management views, Extended Events and deadlock graphs; on PostgreSQL the statement statistics, explain plans, vacuum health and log entries.
If your question is mainly how to evaluate SQL Server monitoring, our SQL Server monitoring tools checklist covers what to check and how Redgate Monitor answers each point. For PostgreSQL, our PostgreSQL monitoring page covers the extensions, roles and managed-service settings in depth.
Redgate Monitor editions: Standard and Enterprise
Both editions are sold self-hosted or as SaaS. The features below are as Redgate describes them on its product page; check the current terms before you decide.
| Question | Standard | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| What it includes | Global overview, diagnosis, alerting, deployment tracking, query impact and multi-platform monitoring | Everything in Standard |
| What it adds | - | Security monitoring and auditing, a high-availability architecture, a Data API and a sensitive action log |
| How it is priced | Per server, per year, with lower rates in larger server bands | On request from Redgate |
| Deployment | Self-hosted or SaaS | Self-hosted or SaaS |
How we advise. Most estates begin on Standard. Enterprise earns its place when security auditing, a resilient monitoring service or the Data API is a written requirement.
Redgate Monitor licensing and pricing: how the quote is built
Redgate prices the Standard edition per server, per year, in bands by number of servers: 1 to 4, 5 to 9, 10 to 19, and 20 or more, where Redgate quotes on request. This page prints no prices; Redgate publishes its own on its pricing page. What moves the number is how many licences the estate needs, and Redgate counts them like this:
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- A server. One licence covers a server, which can host several SQL Server or PostgreSQL instances. A cluster node and a virtual machine each count as a server.
- A cloud database instance. A single-node managed instance, such as Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Flexible Server, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora or Google Cloud SQL, takes one licence.
- Azure SQL Database. One licence covers up to five databases, by Redgate's rule.
Licences are allocated to servers through your Redgate account, and a server without a free licence is not monitored, so count the estate before you order.
Interkey quotes the Redgate Monitor licence at Redgate's terms and our own work beside it, each on its own lines: onboarding as a fixed piece of work, and any operation after go-live as a written managed-services scope. Redgate Monitor sits in our wider Redgate practice, beside the database delivery tools.
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Self-hosted or SaaS: where the monitoring data lives
Monitoring data includes query text, which can carry the values a query ran with, and the names, versions and access rights of every server. For many organisations in Saudi Arabia that puts it under the same classification and data-residency rules as the databases themselves.
The self-hosted edition keeps the data repository on infrastructure you operate, inside your own data centre or a cloud region you choose. The SaaS edition removes the work of running it, and suits teams whose rules allow Redgate to hold the data; ask Redgate where your environment would be hosted. Settle this with your security team before the order, because moving from one model to the other later is a new installation.
Where teams use Redgate Monitor
- Night-time incidents. Finding the query, wait or blocking session behind a slowdown, at the moment it happened.
- Scheduled health. Overdue backups, failed jobs and disks filling up, raised as alerts before anyone needs to look.
- Release checks. Deployment tracking marks each release on the timeline, so a change in query behaviour can be tied to it. It pairs with Flyway in a database DevOps pipeline.
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How Interkey supplies and onboards Redgate Monitor
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Count the estate.
Servers, instances, cluster nodes and cloud databases on each engine, their owners, and which ones the business notices first.
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Choose edition and model.
Standard or Enterprise, self-hosted or SaaS, decided with your security team on where the monitoring data may live.
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Quote the licence and the work.
The Redgate licence at Redgate's terms and Interkey's onboarding as a fixed scope, side by side. A 14-day trial can come first.
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Install and connect.
Base Monitor, repository and web server where self-hosted, the network paths security agrees, and least-privilege accounts on every server.
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Tune the alerts.
Start from Redgate's built-in alerts, set thresholds per server group, route each alert to the database owner, and switch off what no one will act on.
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Hand over and support.
Runbooks and training for your DBAs on your own estate, then support from our engineers in Riyadh, in Arabic and English, or operation under managed services.
Questions buyers ask
How is Redgate Monitor licensed for an organisation in Saudi Arabia?
The same way as anywhere: per server, per year, on Redgate's terms, in Standard or Enterprise, self-hosted or SaaS. Interkey quotes the licence at those terms beside our onboarding work, so you see both parts separately.
What counts as one server on a Redgate Monitor licence?
By Redgate's rule, a server that can host several instances, a cluster node, a virtual machine, or a single-node cloud database instance such as Amazon RDS. One licence covers up to five Azure SQL Databases. We count your estate against these rules before the quote.
Can one Redgate Monitor installation watch SQL Server and PostgreSQL together?
Yes. Both engines appear on the same global dashboard, alert inbox and user roles, each with its own metrics. The PostgreSQL servers need the extensions and monitoring role Redgate documents before they are added.
Should we choose self-hosted or SaaS if our data must stay in the Kingdom?
Self-hosted keeps the monitoring data on infrastructure you operate, so you decide where it lives. With SaaS, ask Redgate where your environment would be hosted and check that against your classification rules first.
How long does Redgate Monitor onboarding take?
Installing and adding the first servers is the short part. The overall time depends on the number of servers, the security review of network paths and accounts, and how many server groups need their own alert thresholds. We give an estimate after counting the estate.
Can we try Redgate Monitor before we buy a licence?
Yes. Redgate offers a 14-day free trial. We can set it up with you on a few representative servers before the licence order.
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Get a Redgate Monitor licence and onboarding quote
Tell us roughly how many SQL Server and PostgreSQL servers you run, where they are hosted, and whether monitoring data must stay on your own infrastructure. We will reply with an edition, a licence count and what the onboarding would cover.
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