About ten years ago, I sketched out an idea for a different kind of SQL Server monitoring tool: one that gathered data just once per day, and gave you a short email with a specific list of actionable tasks to make a difference in health and performance.
Richie Rump did an amazing job of building SQL ConstantCare out in the years since, building a solution that was rock-solid and scaled well to terabytes of monitoring data. Every day, we sent thousands of emails for SQL Servers around the world.
This month, we shut off sales and began decommissioning it. Here’s why.
Click through for the reasons. Brent is still maintaining the First Responder Toolkit, so things like sp_Blitz will still be around. But I will miss the quarterly graphics of who’s using which versions of SQL Server, even if I always had to give the “This is a biased sample and may not be indicative of the entire population, but it’s still an interesting and informative sample” spiel each time.
You’re the first person to bring up the population report! I was wondering if people were going to catch that. 😀