Alarms Ribbon Group
Alarms are the warnings that occur when a collected value falls outside its "normal" range of values. This range is defined by setting thresholds and severities for the alarm. A new alarm is raised whenever the severity for an alarm changes. When the severity returns to normal the alarm is canceled. Alarms critical to your operation can be configured to remain on view until they are acknowledged.
To see the Alarms ribbon group
- Select the Monitor ribbon tab.
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Click to show:
Alarms Description The Heat Map answers the question: Which servers (connections) require the most urgent attention? The Heat Map is a visual display that organizes connections based on the comparative number and severity of their alarms.
Alarms according to priority.
Spotlight Diagnostic Server alarms, operational alarms, outages, connection failures, and execution failures are shown in Spotlight Today.
Alarms according to duration and severity.
Alarms in sorted tabular format. See historical snapshots for alarms, and export the details of the alarm log to an external text file.
Enterprise View (page 1)
A high-level representation of the SQL Server enterprise. You can monitor multiple servers from one view.
