Reliable, in-depth, and at-scale monitoring of database performance has been a long-standing top priority for SQL customers. Today, we are pleased to announce the public preview of database watcher for Azure SQL, a managed database monitoring solution to help our customers use Azure SQL reliably and efficiently.
Managed monitoring for Azure SQL
To enable database watcher, you do not need to deploy any monitoring infrastructure or install and maintain any monitoring agents. You can create a new watcher and start monitoring your Azure SQL estate in minutes.
Once enabled, database watcher collects detailed monitoring data from your databases, elastic pools, and managed instances into a central data store in your Azure subscription. Data is collected with minimal latency – when you open a monitoring dashboard, you see database state as of just a few seconds ago.
