With SQL Monitor, you're alerted to deadlocks as they happen, allowing you to recover any lost processes and put procedures in place to minimize their future occurrence.
There are plenty of ways that apps can unintentionally misuse databases. When the abuses are pervasive, you can catch them by means of a few deft queries on various DMOs.
Monitoring your resources is vital to being able to detect issues or opportunities for performance improvements. When it comes to Azure the monitoring story ...
Database backups allow restoring upon database failures and recovering from data corruption. AWS S3 is an affordable, highly durable and reliable storage option.