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## SQLWATCH Cloud

When SQLWATCH was created almost 10 years ago, and released as OSS 8 years ago, deploying a monitoring database directly
on each SQL Server instance was the only practical approach. It worked, but
on-premises monitoring has inherent limits - storage is expensive, readers block
writers, and getting sub-second granularity without impacting the monitored server
is fundamentally difficult.

[sqlwatch.cloud](https://sqlwatch.cloud) was built from scratch to remove those
constraints: millisecond-latency writes, a purpose-built time-series store where
readers never block writers, cheap and effectively unlimited storage, and a
5-minute setup with no dacpac, no SQL Agent, no infrastructure to maintain and transparent pricing.

Teams today monitor 100+ SQL Server instances from a single dashboard -
something that would have been impractical with the on-premises model.

This open-source project remains available and free but is no longer actively
developed. If you're evaluating monitoring options today, [sqlwatch.cloud](https://sqlwatch.cloud) is where active development happens.

# About

![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green.svg)
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* Works with all supported SQL Servers (with some limitations on 2008R2)

# Resources
* How to get started https://sqlwatch.io/get
* Documentation https://docs.sqlwatch.io
* [Documentation](https://marcingminski.github.io/sqlwatch/)
* Our Slack channel for discussion, asking questions, solving problems https://sqlcommunity.slack.com/messages/CCCETQBFZ

# Architecture
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