dbMonitor

Handling complex tasks also implies that you keep the situation under control to prevent any serious issues. This also applies to database management, especially since it can handle sensible data. In this regard, dbMonitor helps you keep an eye on activities in your database and shows the log, parameters, and other details.

The application takes little time to install, and you can launch it right afterwards. It’s dedicated to monitoring your database applications, and it is usually able to detect activity without any actual management. The interface is intuitive, with a large section showing events, a log window for SQL, parameters, errors, and call stack, as well as a side panel for browsing through processes, object tree, and call tree.

You can use dbMonitor to monitor events for components like ADO .NET data providers, VCL components, dbExpress drivers, BDP.NET providers, as well as Oracle class library. It can trace SQL calls from several processes simultaneously, and displays detailed info on each database event.

In order to make the program function, you need to make changes to your own database application in order to allow it to be monitored. Detailed instructions are provided in the documentation to make it work with different database interfaces and programming components.

Monitoring starts by default as soon as you run the application. You can choose to refresh if nothing shows up. Information panes can be toggled off if not exactly needed in your analysis. You can apply event filters to narrow down activities of interest. Information is displayed in real-time which you can save to a log file. Be sure to save before closing, because all data is discarded on exit.

All things considered, we can state, that dbMonitor is a reliable application you can use locally on your database to monitor related programs. Integration is possible for a whole range of database application types, with data gathered in real-time, options to filter, and even save data to file in the end.