Monthly Archives: September 2009

Our first monitoring dashboard entry!

By Adam | Published: September 29, 2009
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve received our first entry to the design a dashboard competition. It’s a magnificent effort from Merrill Aldrich, who sent us a fully functional .NET application to demonstrate his ideas. As can be seen, the UI neatly displays the health state of the SQL instances. In his explanatory notes, Merrill [...]
Posted in Design A Dashboard | 4 Comments

Mirroring: What do you want to monitor?

By Priya.Sinha | Published: September 21, 2009
There are many technologies available at the software and hardware level to help achieve high availability on mission-critical servers. We’d like your views on what you’d expect a monitoring tool to tell you about for all these various issues. To kick things off, we’d first like your requirements for monitoring mirrored environments. When would you [...]
Posted in Alert | Tagged | 2 Comments

Design a dashboard examples

By Adam | Published: September 16, 2009
We’re still in the process of working out exactly how our dashboards might look. We’ve showed several different designs to many people, and feel we’re getting closer to the ideal dashboard. But we still want to see what your ideal dashboard looks like. One of the people we showed our designs to commented “I’m one [...]
Posted in Design A Dashboard, Designs | 3 Comments

What metrics do you use? Part two: Disk

By Brian.Harris | Published: September 14, 2009
This is part two of our blogs about which counters you use when monitoring your servers. Click here for part one, about memory counters. Suggested Counters Disk space available The amount of disk space available, in GB, per logical disk. Logical disk idle time The percentage of elapsed time that the disk is not servicing [...]
Posted in Metrics | Tagged | 10 Comments

What do you want from a Global Overview?

By Tom.Randle | Published: September 10, 2009
One of the really cool features we’re planning for SQL Response 2 is the Global Overview. This is a kind of ‘front page’ that is designed to draw your attention to any significant issues across your entire enterprise. The global overview is the top level of a hierarchy of ‘overview’ pages that include: A Physical [...]
Posted in Designs | 10 Comments

Auditing

By Adam | Published: September 7, 2009
Monitoring and controlling user access is becoming more important to network admins and DBAs; we’re keen to explore how SQL Response v2 can meet your requirements in this area. We’d like to know just how important this issue is to you. Specifically, we’re interested in some of the following questions: Do you have a need [...]
Posted in Security | 4 Comments

What do you dislike about installers?

By Tom.Randle | Published: September 3, 2009
We’re in the middle of designing the SQL Response 2 installer at the moment. We’re trying our hardest to make the installation process as painless and as user-friendly as we possibly can. So, we’d like to know: What irritates you most about installers? Have you installed a product recently where the installation process really annoyed [...]
Posted in Designs | 6 Comments

What metrics do you use? Part one: Memory

By Brian.Harris | Published: September 1, 2009
One of the key features of SQL Response v2 will be the ability to monitor a whole set of metrics in real-time across your enterprise from physical servers, SQL Servers, disks, network and so on. There’s a huge amount of information that we can and will display in SQL Response v2, but we’d like to [...]
Posted in Metrics | 9 Comments