What the SQL Server performance tools do better than Activity Monitor is aggregating data and highlighting outlier behavior.

--Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced expanded monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure database platforms. The announcement ...

Redgate is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced query identification, optimization ...

To enable organizations to get the most value out of any database, anywhere, Redgate SQL Monitor now offers support for SQL Server on Linux.

Google for "SQL Monitoring tools" and you get plenty of hits for products that can watch the actual DBs, including transactions, locks, etc. That may or may not be what you are looking for.

In October 2023, Redgate Software enhanced its SQL Monitor tool by adding support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and on-premises PostgreSQL, offering improved monitoring capabilities for cloud and ...