Category Archives: Alert

New Alerts Pt 1 (of 3)

I’ve spent the last few weeks investigating the alerts that the new v2 product will offer, in particular the new alerts that are not currently available in v1. SQL Response v2 will provide a number of Overviews for SQL Server Instances summarising activity on those servers. For example, a number of Perfmon counters (Buffer Cache [...]
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Alert Notification

When SQL Response detects a problem on a server, it raises an alert. This alert contains a summary of the problem and information about the state of the system when the alert was generated. The alert will always appear in the main user interface, but you can also choose, on an alert by alert basis, [...]
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Mirroring: What do you want to monitor?

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 [...]
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