REDGATE MONITOR ALTERNATIVE
The Redgate Monitor alternative that tells you what to do next
Redgate shows you a lot about your estate. WISdom tells you what matters: 90% fewer notifications, incidents replayed minute by minute with ranked fixes, capacity forecasts before you run short, and the dollar cost of every query.
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WHY TEAMS SWITCH
Plenty of data, not enough answers
Redgate Monitor collects a lot. The friction teams describe starts after the data arrives.
// alert noise
Alerts you tune by hand
Threshold and baseline alerting works, until you’re maintaining rules across hundreds of instances and the team starts ignoring the inbox.
// incidents
Charts, then guesswork
When something breaks, you get the graphs. Working out the cause, and the right fix, is still on the DBA at 2am.
// budget
No answer for finance
Redgate prices the VM. When finance asks which application is driving the SQL Server bill, you’re back to building a spreadsheet by hand.
SAME LICENSE UNIT, MORE IN THE LICENSE
You already pay per server. Now get every feature for it.
Redgate and WISdom both license per server, with multiple SQL Server instances covered. Redgate then splits capabilities between Standard and Enterprise. WISdom has one edition, billed annually, with unlimited instances and nothing held back. The Azure and cluster math is different too: one WISdom license covers ten Azure SQL databases, and a failover cluster instance is licensed on the active node only.
SIDE BY SIDE
WISdom vs Redgate Monitor
Where the two overlap, and where WISdom goes further.
| Capability | WISdom | Redgate Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring and analytics | ||
| Real-time performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blocking and deadlock analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wait stats and Query Store integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| ML anomaly detection | ✓ | threshold and baseline alerts |
| Notification noise reduction | 90% fewer | manual rule tuning |
| Minute-by-minute incident review with ranked fixes ("What Happened?") | ✓ | historical charts |
| Capacity and workload | ||
| Storage growth forecasting | ✓ | disk and growth trends |
| Server and cloud-tier right-sizing | ✓ | VM and cloud tier |
| Workload Compare (any two periods, one instance or two) | ✓ | baseline overlays |
| Cloud migration sizing and cost | ✓ | - |
| Cost optimization | ||
| Dollar cost of every query and stored procedure | ✓ | - |
| Tuning recommendations ranked by savings | ✓ | - |
| Chargeback and showback by team or app | ✓ | - |
| Deployment and licensing | ||
| Nothing installed on monitored servers | ✓ | SaaS edition uses an agent |
| Every feature in one edition | ✓ | Standard / Enterprise |
| Instances per server license | Unlimited | Multiple |
| Azure SQL databases per license | 10 | 5 |
| Failover cluster licensing | Active node only | Every node |
Based on each vendor's publicly available product and pricing information as of October 2026. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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WHAT CHANGES AFTER THE SWITCH
Monitoring that does more of the thinking
Your DBAs get fewer alerts and faster answers. Your platform owner gets a capacity plan. Finance gets a number.
// analytics
90% fewer notifications
ML anomaly detection flags what’s actually unusual, not every threshold crossing, so the alerts that reach your team are worth acting on.
// incidents
What Happened? answers it
Replay an incident minute by minute, see which checks flagged and the statement behind them, and get ranked steps to fix it.
// capacity
See the shortfall coming
Capacity forecasting shows when a server will run short while there’s still time to plan, and right-sizing shows where you’re paying for headroom you don’t use.
// workload
Prove the change worked
Workload Compare and pre/post-migration analysis put two periods or two environments side by side, so a release or a migration comes with evidence.
// cost
Every query has a price
Cost of Compute, Cost of Data, and Cost of Queries, down to the individual statement and stored procedure.
// chargeback
Cost by team and app
Chargeback and showback reports finance can read, so the budget conversation starts with facts instead of guesses.
WHO PICKS UP THE PHONE
Support from people who've run SQL Server estates
WISdom is supported by US-based SQL Server experts, including engineers from the former SQL Sentry support team, with a 95%+ CSAT.
FIND IT · FIX IT · PROVE IT
Redgate shows you the symptom. WISdom shows you the fix.
FIND IT
What actually changed
Anomalies flagged against normal behavior, with the queries and sessions behind them, ranked by impact and by cost.
FIX IT
The next step, ranked
The index, the rewrite, or the right-sized tier, ordered by impact, with the projected savings shown next to it.
PROVE IT
The result, on record
Compare before and after in performance and in dollars, then hand finance a number they can check.
FAQ
Questions Redgate customers ask us
How is WISdom's alerting different from Redgate's?
Redgate alerts on thresholds and baselines you configure. WISdom adds ML anomaly detection that flags unusual behavior without tuning rules instance by instance, which reduces notifications by 90%. When something does break, “What Happened?” replays the incident minute by minute with ranked steps to fix it.
We're on Redgate Standard. What would WISdom include?
Everything. WISdom is one edition, licensed per server or host with unlimited SQL Server instances on it, and every capability is included: ML anomaly detection, “What Happened?” incident replay, WISdom Advisor, capacity planning and forecasting, Workload Compare, migration analysis, query cost attribution, chargeback, and 180-day retention.
How does WISdom license Azure SQL and failover clusters?
One WISdom license covers a server or VM with unlimited SQL Server instances, one PaaS instance, ten Azure SQL databases, or one failover cluster instance licensed on the active node only.
Can WISdom run alongside Redgate Monitor?
Yes. WISdom is agentless and connects read-only, so nothing is installed on your SQL Server instances and it doesn’t interfere with Redgate Monitor. Many teams that already run Redgate add WISdom on top of it, because WISdom complements the tools you have by showing the cost of technology for your finance and FinOps teams. Most teams run both during the 30-day trial and compare what each one tells them.
Keep the visibility. Add the answers.
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