Performance Monitoring

• Monitor SQL Servers and analyze continuously

  Know at a glance the real-time availability, health, and performance of your SQL Server instances. Spot issues fast with metrics analysis across hundreds of instances. Generate reports from your SQL Server database to stay apprised of health and performance.

• Deploy for physical, virtual, and cloud environments

  Ensure continuity by monitoring the performance of physical servers, virtual servers, and cloud servers to get a complete, continuous view of your SQL Server environment.

• Manage availability groups

  Efficiently manage the topology of high-availability groups. Even during failover, get monitoring and alerting on your clusters, mirrors, and replication.

• Monitor tempdb

  Identify and resolve tempdb contention and performance problems, and check and display the space and performance information of your tempdb.

• Customize counters

  Tailor your systems’ monitoring and reporting with custom counters. Get application-specific monitoring with Windows Performance Monitor counters and SQL queries. Enable data collection to monitor application performance in real-time.

• Manage jobs

  Monitor and alert on your jobs—success, failure, cancellation, or retry. View all jobs and their last known status, and the complete history of jobs. Also, conveniently start and stop jobs from the same interface.

• Monitor operating systems

  Collect performance metrics for all your systems at the operating system level using Windows Management Instrumentation, and Object Linking & Embedding.

• Monitor CPU and memory usage

  Avoid bottlenecks and deadlocks with CPU, disk space, and memory usage alerts indicating an unusually high amount of usage by SQL Server.

Alerting

• Alert based on best practices

  Get SQL Server monitoring alerts customized for your industry and your enterprise. Choose from over 100 predefined alert settings based on industry best practices. Modify your configuration settings for greater flexibility and optimization.

• Alert to different audiences

  Get the message out to the right people. Advanced notifications let you send alerts to different groups of people based on metrics, time-of-day, and instance.

• Set up maintenance mode

  Avoid false positives by selectively disabling SQL Diagnostic Manager SQL Server monitoring and alerting during maintenance periods for on-demand, one-time, and weekly scheduled maintenance periods.

• Smooth and snooze alerts

  Help DBAs work without distraction. SQL Diagnostic Man

• Set up maintenance mode

  Avoid false positives by selectively disabling SQL Diagnostic Manager SQL Server monitoring and alerting during maintenance periods for on-demand, one-time, and weekly scheduled maintenance periods.

• Quickly deploy alerts across instances

  Easily put your custom alerts in place across your infrastructure. Add and modify metrics to alerts for multiple servers with the default alert configuration and the copy-to operation.

• Alert from baselines

  Know your business reality: Capture baselines of past performance to configure baseline alerts that automatically calibrate to changes within your system to avoid excessive noise and false positives.

• Automate alert response actions

  Give your DBAs more ways to respond, with customized, automated alert-response actions for system notifications, email, SQL scripts, PowerShell scripts, and more.

• View recommendations for alert thresholds

  Avoid alert fatigue. For metrics that always alert, view flags that indicate needed changes—with suggestions for new limits.

Diagnostics and Analytics

• View locks, blocks, and deadlocks

  For easy problem identification and resolution, view the complete blocking chain by identifying real-time and historical session locks, blocks, bottlenecks, and deadlocks.

• View activity timelines

  Understand events faster and more intuitively by viewing color-coded performance events on your server on a timeline calendar instead of only as a list of events. Use a sliding scale to zoom in to specific times.

• View fragmentation

  Quickly remedy one of the most common causes of performance degradation: View statistics on fragmentation to identify indexes that may need defragmentation.

• Run PowerShell scripts

  Get even more control over SQL Diagnostic Manager by deploying Microsoft PowerShell, and automatically respond to alerts with PowerShell scripts.

• Browse historical data

  Reduce future problems by understanding the multiple factors behind SQL Server database issues. Examine historical trends and drill down to the precise point in time a problem emerged.

• Set up multiple baselines

  Compare the performance baselines that matter to your business by defining and scheduling multiple baseline periods.

• Integrate with SCOM

  Share data with IT operations for efficiency by propagating the status, health, and events of monitored instances to Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).

• Plan capacity

  Confidently plan the future of your storage infrastructure. View charts and create reports with trends and metrics to help forecast future capacity needs.

Enterprise Management

• See overview and drill down

  View your entire environment in the customizable dashboard and drill down to find the root causes of problems, reducing time spent troubleshooting. Get flexible SQL Server monitoring by specifying multiple dashboards per instance.

• Access on mobile devices

  View real-time and historical performance—and diagnose and resolve performance issues—from anywhere, with smartphone or tablet access.

• Apply granular application security

  Smoothly address varying access needs with access to your servers and instances via fine-grained security permissions for different groups of people.

• Deploy for hybrid cloud

  Consolidate vital information and plan for the cloud-centric future by deploying SQL Diagnostic Manager to simultaneously monitor your on-premises databases, databases on cloud virtual machines, and managed cloud databases.

• Deploy via web browser

  Avoid the installation and maintenance of desktop consoles, and reach a diverse pool of users and endpoints, by deploying SQL Diagnostic Manager access via a web browser.

• Share configurations

  Export and import configuration files to efficiently share customized dashboards, counters, alert templates, and reports with other users across your organization.

• Report comprehensively

  Gain insights about your data quickly with predefined and customized reports. Report on performance trends and forecasts for capacity planning. Deploy reports to SQL Server Reporting Services using the industry’s best SQL Server reporting software.

Cloud

• Install on cloud virtual machines

  Unify your control by running SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server on cloud virtual machines with Windows—such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure virtual machines.

• Monitor SQL Server on cloud virtual machines

  Monitor your SQL Server instances running on cloud virtual machines with virtualization software that is compatible with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V—such as Amazon EC2 and Azure virtual machines.

• Monitor hybrid environments with a single tool

  Save time by using the same SQL Server performance monitoring tool for SQL Server databases on-premises (on your physical and virtual machines); in the private, public, and government cloud (on virtual machines); and in the public and government cloud (as managed databases).

• Access mapped cloud drives

  Get the most out the cloud with cloud storage that is mapped as network drives or removable drives on Windows with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server. For example, map storage to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Azure Blob Storage.

• Monitor managed SQL Server cloud databases

  Extend your cloud capabilities with monitoring for Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS for SQL Server.