Joey on SQL Server Why Activity Monitor May Be Hurting Your SQL Server's Performance As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data.

The SQL Server monitor also provides deeper monitoring ability. Because Enterprise Manager monitors SQL Server by running a query, an administrator isn’t limited to monitoring the SQL Server ...

To enable organizations to get the most value out of any database, anywhere, Redgate SQL Monitor now offers support for SQL Server on Linux.