Datadog Inc. announced expanded monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure database platforms. The announcement builds on Datadog's Database Monitoring product, which launched in August of last year. With this expanded support, engineers and database administrators can quickly pinpoint and address database performance issues such as costly and slow queries, incorrect indexes in SQL Server or Azure databases and bottlenecks in their applications. Datadog Database Monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure database platforms includes the following features: Valuable Query Metrics: View metrics such as average latency, total execution time and number of rows queried in order to identify problematic queries and use historical query performance data to track long-term trends; Explain Plan Analysis: Visualize differences between multiple explain plans for individual queries to identify hotspots and seamlessly pivot from explain plans to related metrics in order to understand how inefficiencies impact performance; Centralized Query, Database and Infrastructure Metrics: View and monitor query-level and host-level metrics together to better understand how resource constraints affect database performance.

Database Monitoring is now generally available for Microsoft customers using SQL Server or Azure Database Platforms.