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11-13 August 2016. NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore, India.
Understanding Your Servers
All Your Servers
Grant Fritchey
Product Evangelist
Redgate Software
Get in touch
scarydba.com
grant@scarydba.com
@gfritchey
Grant Fritchey
Accidents Happen
3
Workloads Grow
4
Systems Evolve
5
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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.
We Need To Know
• Server Status
• Errors & Alerts
• Database Status
• Current Behavior
• Past Behavior
• Future Behavior
– Well, possible future behavior
Server Status
• Prod vs Dev vs ?
• Offline
• Errors
• Performance
• Clusters
• Availability Groups
• Virtual Machines
Errors and Alerts
• Signal to Noise Ratio
• Alerts vs. Information
• Phones
• History
Database Status
• Online?
• Errors?
• Backups
• Maintenance
• Performance
• Growth
• Workload
Current Behavior
• What is happening right now!
• Correlation between events and status is extremely important
• Reactive instead of proactive
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”
Future Behavior
• Using trends
• Tracking growth over time
• Communicate with the business
• Understand the business
Tools
• Perfmon
• Dynamic Management Views/Functions
• Extended Events
• Trace Events (deprecated)
• 3rd Party
What We Monitor
• Wait Statistics
• In Order of Importance
– IO
– Memory
– CPU
– Other stuff
• General Performance
We Need To Know
• Server Status
• Errors & Alerts
• Database Status
• Current Behavior
• Past Behavior
• Future Behavior
– Well, possible future behavior
Get in touch
scarydba.com
grant@scarydba.com
@gfritchey
Grant Fritchey
Thank you
for your time!
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