Monitor your SQL Server environment
SQL Server Database Monitor from NetFort Technologies is database activity monitoring software for your SQL Server databases. It monitors and records every access to your SQL Server databases, helping you to protect sensitive business data, secure your database infrastructure, detect fraudulent activity, and more easily meet your audit and compliance obligations.
You can do all of this with no impact on performance and without needing to redesign your databases or applications. And, with our Active Directory and Novell eDirectory integration, you can identify the actual users responsible for all database activity.
Features at a glance
Roll over the tabs below to see the main features of SQL Server Database Monitor.
All SQL Server activity is stored in the Event Repository, a proprietary database that is secure, hardened, tamper-proof, and completely independent of your SQL Server infrastructure. All database activity is time-stamped, providing a verifiable audit trail that you can use as part of your IT policy and compliance framework.
Because SQL Server Database Monitor generates its activity data from SQL Server network traffic, it has zero performance impact and it gives you a single point of access to the activity data for your entire database environment. This is a significant improvement on the native logging and auditing utilities that come with SQL Server. The native utilities create log files on a per-server basis, making it difficult and time-consuming to monitor the log files for an environment with many SQL Server instances. Database performance is also affected when native logging is enabled.
SQL Server Database Monitor helps you to lower IT costs and increase operational efficiency by automating many database auditing and security tasks. You can configure it to automatically issue e-mail alerts or SNMP traps in real time when security policy violations occur. This feature is commonly used to notify an administrator when a SQL Server instance is accessed by a specified client.
Database activity monitoring is critically important for compliance with standards. SQL Server Database Monitor helps you to implement the internal controls and reporting systems that enable you to demonstrate compliance with standards such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).
Knowing where data is located in your organisation is critically important for risk management and compliance.
SQL Server Database Monitor helps you discover where important data is stored. You can create reports that list all databases on your network, see which users are accessing them, and what SQL statements they are applying. If a developer makes a copy of your customer database for testing purposes, or a new application begins interacting with your HR database, SQL Server Database Monitor will bring it to your attention. It will also notify you as new databases appear on the network.
SQL Server Database Monitor generates reports that give you a user-based, client-based, or server-based perspective on SQL Server database activity.
Each report is presented in a summary format, with filtering to enable you to see activity associated with individual users or servers, and drill-down capability to enable you to view more detailed information on the activity that interests you. See the Screenshots page for some examples.
SQL Server Database Monitor acts as an intrusion detection system (IDS) for your SQL Server databases. It records details of the user and application that accessed the database, the SQL statement used, and the database to which it applied. It works by monitoring the network traffic that passes through the SPAN or NetFlow port on your core network switch, using deep packet inspection (DPI) techniques to analyze the traffic and identify the SQL statements that users and applications are transmitting over network.
Find out more
If you have any questions about how SQL Server Database Monitor can help you with your network monitoring requirements, please
contact us. If you would like to see SQL Server Database Monitor in action, please try
our online demo system. or download
a free 30-day trial to try it on your own network with your own data.