What's new in Redgate Monitor: Postgres monitoring, CIS compliance, and an MCP server for AI

Redgate Monitor is a database performance and security monitoring tool covering SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud SQL. This session walks through Redgate Monitor's latest releases and roadmap: cloud cost tracking, Google Cloud SQL support, expanded Postgres diagnostics, permission-change security alerting, CIS benchmark compliance, and a new MCP server and chat assistant for AI-powered workflows.

3:09 The challenge of fragmented, multi-platform database estates

4:32 Managing the cost of cloud database infrastructure

9:05 Demo: cloud cost and resource-usage tracking for AWS and Azure VMs

13:56 Roadmap: Google Cloud SQL support (June 2026)

15:09 Postgres adoption poll and Redgate Monitor's Postgres coverage

17:53 New Postgres features: wait statistics, custom metrics, explain plan comparison

19:03 Monitoring Aurora read replicas and cluster performance

20:21 Q&A: Postgres on Kubernetes

21:38 Getting Redgate Monitor data into Grafana, Power BI, and other tools

24:13 Redgate Monitor Standard vs Enterprise

24:52 Why security and compliance are now top DBA priorities

28:56 New: permission-change tracking (SQL Audit) and proactive alerting

33:01 Redgate Monitor and CIS benchmark compliance

39:17 Using AI to speed up query tuning and deadlock diagnosis

46:08 Roadmap: an MCP server for Redgate Monitor data

47:53 Roadmap: Redgate Assistant, a chat-based assistant in Redgate Monitor

49:24 How Redgate Monitor's AI features are configured and secured

55:39 Audience Q&A: Query Store, Nutanix, VMware migration

58:40 Wrap-up and how to get involved in early access

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