As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

ELM Enterprise Manager is a rules-based management system that gives systems administrators monitoring and notification for Windows environments, and introduces new depth to traditional monitoring.

If you’ve been managing databases for any length of time, you’ve probably had to contend with the “noisy neighbors” scenario. In this scenario, you have several applications, each with their own ...