Knowing what is happening to your SQL Server servers can require a lot of work. Knowing what to look for, what metrics to measure, and how to get everything from your entire enterprise requires knowledge. This session lays out the fundamentals necessary for this type of server monitoring and management.

1. 11-13 August 2016. NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore, India.
Understanding Your Servers
All Your Servers
Grant Fritchey
Product Evangelist
Redgate Software

2. Get in touch
scarydba.com
grant@scarydba.com
@gfritchey
Grant Fritchey

3. Accidents Happen
3

4. Workloads Grow
4

5. Systems Evolve
5

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8. Goals
• Understand approaching monitoring as an enterprise-wide undertaking.
• Learn the core aspects of SQL Server that must be monitored.
• Gain some knowledge of what to do about common issues.

9. We Need To Know
• Server Status
• Errors & Alerts
• Database Status
• Current Behavior
• Past Behavior
• Future Behavior
– Well, possible future behavior

10. Server Status
• Prod vs Dev vs ?
• Offline
• Errors
• Performance
• Clusters
• Availability Groups
• Virtual Machines

11. Errors and Alerts
• Signal to Noise Ratio
• Alerts vs. Information
• Phones
• Email
• History

12. Database Status
• Online?
• Errors?
• Backups
• Maintenance
• Performance
• Growth
• Workload

13. Current Behavior
• What is happening right now!
• Correlation between events and status is extremely important
• Reactive instead of proactive

14. Past Behavior
• What happened yesterday/last week/last month
• Baselines
• Trends
• “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
• “History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme”

15. Future Behavior
• Using trends
• Tracking growth over time
• Communicate with the business
• Understand the business

16. Tools
• Perfmon
• Dynamic Management Views/Functions
• Extended Events
• Trace Events (deprecated)
• 3rd Party

17. What We Monitor
• Wait Statistics
• In Order of Importance
– IO
– Memory
– CPU
– Other stuff
• General Performance

18. We Need To Know
• Server Status
• Errors & Alerts
• Database Status
• Current Behavior
• Past Behavior
• Future Behavior
– Well, possible future behavior

19. Get in touch
scarydba.com
grant@scarydba.com
@gfritchey
Grant Fritchey

20. Thank you
for your time!
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