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Foglight for SQL Server (Cartridge) 5.9.3.10 - User Guide

Introduction to this Guide Using Foglight for SQL Server
Viewing the Databases Dashboard Overview Dashboard Advisories Dashboard Monitoring Data Replication Monitoring SQL Performance Reviewing Memory Usage Reviewing the Instance Activity Reviewing Database Usage Reviewing the Services Using the HADR Drilldown Using the Logs Drilldown Reviewing Configuration Settings Viewing User-defined Performance Counters and Collections
Monitoring Business Intelligence Services Administering Foglight for SQL Server
Configuration Settings Managing Foglight for SQL Server Agent Settings Reviewing Foglight for SQL Server Alarms Generating Reports Monitoring SQL Server instances on VMware servers
Glossary
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Access methods Adhoc SQL Plans Alarm Alert Allow updates Anonymous subscription Authentication AutoClose AutoGrow Automatic Discovery AutoShrink B Batch BCP (Bulk Copy Program) Blocking Books Online Bound trees Buffer Buffer cache Buffer pull Bulk copy Bulkinsert Bulk load C Cache CAL Calibration Cardinality Cartridge Chart Checkpoint process Client network utility CLR Compile Connect Connection Connectivity software CPU Usage Cursors D Data access components Data file Data storage engine Database Database object DataFlow DBCC DBID DBO Deadlock Disk queue length Disk transfer time Disk utilization DiskPerf Distributing instance Distributor DMO Drilldown DTC DTS E Error log Event alert Execution contexts Extended stored procedures Extent External procedures F File Filegroup File cache Foglight Agent Manager Foglight Management Server Foreign key Forwarded records Free buffers Free list Free pages Free potential Free space Freespace scans Full text search G GAM Ghosted records Growth increment GUID H Hash buckets Hashing Heap Hit rate Hit ratio Host name Host process I I/O Index Indid Integrated security Intent Locks J Job K Kernel memory Kernel mode Kill L Latch Lazy writer Licensing Lightweight pooling Lock Lock area Lock escalation Lock mode Log Log cache Log writer Logical I/O LRU LSN M Master MaxSize MDAC Metric Misc.normalized trees Model Monitor page file N Named pipes Net library NIC Null O OBID Object plans OLAP OLAP service OLTP Optimizer Optimizer cache osql P Page life expectancy Paging Panel Parse Parser Per seat licensing Per server licensing Performance alert Physical I/O Physical read Physical write PID Pinned Plan Plan cache Potential growth Prepared SQL plans Primary key Privileged mode Procedure cache Procedure plans Process Profiler Publication database Publisher Publisher databases Publishing server Pull subscription Pulse Push subscription Q Query plan R RAID Random I/O Read ahead Recompile Referential integrity Relational data engine Replication procedure plans Role Rollback S sa Schema locks Sequential I/O Session Severity SGAM Shared locks Show advanced options SMP Sort, Hash, Index Area SPID Spike Spinner SQL Agent Mail SQL Mail SQL Plans SQL Server Agent SQL Server authentication SQL Server books online Standard deviation Stolen pages Stored procedure Support service SYSADMIN role T TDS TempDB Temporary tables and table variables Threshold Torn page detection Transaction Trigger Trigger plans Truncate Trusted U UMS Unused space User connection area User mode V Virtual log file VLF W Waitfor Windows authentication mode Working set
Reference
SQL PI Repository Cold Backup Procedure SQL Performance Investigator Metrics
Active Time All SQL Agents CPU Usage All SQL Agents Resident Memory Usage Availability Average Physical I/O Operations Average SQL Response Time Backup Recovery Wait Blocked Lock Requests Checkpoint Pages CLR Wait CPU Usage CPU Wait Cursor Synchronization Wait Database Replication Wait Deferred Task Worker Wait Degree of Parallelism Disk Utilization DTC CPU Usage DTC Resident Memory Usage Distributed Transaction Wait Executions Ended Executions Started External Procedures Wait Full Scans Full Text Search CPU Usage Full Text Search Resident Memory Usage Full Text Search Wait Free Buffer Wait Hosted Components Wait IO Bulk Load Wait IO Completion Wait IO Data Page Wait IO Wait Latch Buffer Wait Latch Wait Latch Savepoint Wait Lazy Writes Lock Wait Lock Bulk Update Wait Lock Exclusive Wait Lock Intent Wait Lock Requests Lock Schema Wait Lock Shared Wait Lock Update Wait Lock Wait Log Buffer Wait Log Flushes Log Other Wait Log Synchronization Wait Log Wait Log Write Wait Memory Wait Network IO Wait Network IPC Wait Network Mirror Wait Network Wait Non SQL Server CPU Usage Non SQL Resident Memory Usage OLAP CPU Usage OLAP Resident Memory Usage OLEDB Provider Full Text Wait Other CPU Usage Other Miscellaneous Wait Other Wait Overall CPU Page Life Expectancy Page Splits Parallel Coordination Wait Physical I/O Physical Memory Used Physical Page Reads Physical Page Writes Probe Scans Plan Cache Hit Rate Range Scans Rec Ended Duration Remote Provider Wait Run Queue Length Samples Service Broker Wait Session Logons Session Logoffs SQL Agent CPU Usage SQL Agent Resident Memory Usage SQL Executions SQL Mail CPU Usage SQL Mail Resident Memory Usage SQL Recompilations SQL Response Time SQL Server Background CPU Usage SQL Server Cache Memory SQL Server Connections Memory SQL Server Connections Summary SQL Server Foreground CPU Usage SQL Server Resident Memory Usage SQL Server Swap Memory Usage Synchronous Task Wait Table Lock Escalation Target Instance Memory Total CPU Usage Total Instance Memory Virtual Memory Used
Rules Collections and Metrics

Replication Subscriptions

This collection provides detailed data of the subscriptions of the selected distributing SQL Server instance (Distributor).

SQL Server.

Real-time

300

Online

900

Offline

900

Distribution / Merge Agent

Name of the Distribution or Merge Agent for the subscription.

Latency

Highest latency, in seconds, for data changes propagated by the Log Reader or Distribution Agents for a transactional publication.

Log Reader Agent

Name of the Log Reader agent, if applicable.

Publication DB

The name of the database, which contains the publication that is replicated to the selected subscription

Publication Name

The name of the publication replicated to the selected subscription.

Publication Type

The type of publication replicated to the selected subscription; for example, Snapshot, Transactional, and Merge.

Publishing Server Name

The name of the SQL Server instance that hosts the selected publication database, whose data is replicated to the selected subscription.

Snapshot Agent

Name of the Snapshot Agent job for the publication.

Status

Highest (worst) severity status of the agents associated with the replication. For example, Started, Succeeded, In progress, Idle, Retrying, and Failed.

Subscribing Server

The name of the SQL Server instance that hosts the database where the selected Subscription resides.

Subscription DB

The name of the SQL Server instance that hosts the database where the selected Subscription resides.

Subscription Type

The selected subscription's type; for example, Push, Pull, Anonymous.

Session Data

This collection provides detailed data of the selected SQL Server session.

SQL Server.

This collection is an on-demand collection, which has no pre-defined sampling intervals.

Active

Indicates whether the process is active.

Blocked By

Which SPID (if any) holds locks that this session is waiting on (Blocked By).

CPU Usage

The Total CPU time that this session has used since connecting to the SQL Server.

Cache Hit Ratio

The percentage, for this session, of buffer cache hit ratio, that is: file read operations that were satisfied by the file system cache without requiring any physical I/O. The value of this metric should be as high as possible.

Context Info

Provides context information for the current session.

Current Wait Time

The amount of time this session has been waiting. This shows 0 if the session is not currently waiting.

DB User

The SQL Server login name for this session.

Database

The name of the database where the session is running.

Error Number

Indicates if the most recent statement completed by this session returned an error number; corresponds to the @@Error global variable for this session.

Can have two states:

Host Name

The name of the Client host that is running the session.

Last Batch Time

The time the last batch started execution (Last Batch Time).

Last Command

The current or previous command executed.

Lock Timeout

The amount of time that this session waits for lock requests to be satisfied. Corresponds to the @@Lock_Timeout global variable for this session.

Logical Reads

Indicates the number of logical reads per second currently being performed by this session.

Logical reads are database page I/O requests that were satisfied from the Buffer Cache and therefore did not have to perform disk reads.

Login Time

The time the session was created.

Memory

Memory is the number of pages in the procedure cache that are currently allocated to this process. A negative number indicates that the process is freeing memory allocated by another process.

Most Recent SQL

Shows the batch of SQL statements last executed or currently executing by the selected session.

Physical Reads

Shows the number of physical reads per second currently being performed by this session.

Physical Writes

Shows the number of physical writes per second currently being performed by this session.

Program

The Program that the user is running in order to access SQL Server.

SPID

The SQL process number.

Status

The session Status (runnable, sleeping, blocked and so on).

System Process

A flag indicating the session type:

Total I/O

The total amount of I/O operations (including background I/O) performed by the session from the time it connected to the SQL Server.

Transaction Count

The number of open transactions; corresponds to the session's @@TRANCOUNT value.

Session Trace

This collection traces over events that occurred in the currently monitored SQL Server instance.

System.

This collection is an on-demand collection, which has no pre-defined sampling intervals.

SPID

The session unique identifier (Session Process ID).

The unique number that SQL Server has assigned to identify the selected session.

Start Time

The time when the class event started.

End Time

The time when the class event ended.

Event Class

The type of class that was traced.

Duration

The duration, in milliseconds, of the event class.

Text Data

The SQL text that was captured as a result of the trace event.

Reads

The number of logical disk reads carried out by the server on behalf of the event.

Writes

The number of physical disk writes carried out by the server on behalf of the event.

CPU

The amount of CPU time (in milliseconds) used by the event.

Database ID

ID of the current database.

Object Name

System-assigned ID of the object.

Index ID

ID for the index on the object affected by the event.

SQL Server Connections Summary

This collection provides general information about all of the connections in SQL Server.

SQL Server.

Real-time

20

Online

60

Offline

300

Active Connections Percent

The percentage of active connections as part of the user sessions.

All Active Connections

The number of all SQL active connections.

Background Sessions

The total number of background sessions.

Blocked Connections

The total number of blocked sessions.

Blockers Connections

The total number of blocking sessions.

Connections Running DBCC

The total number of sessions running a DBCC command.

Foreground Sessions

The total number of foreground sessions.

Internal Connections

The number of internal connections of the SQL Server instance.

Machine Connections

The number of Client computers that currently have at least one SQL Server session.

Max Block Time

The maximum duration (in seconds) a current process was blocked.

Max Connections Allowed

The maximum number of user connections that SQL server allows.

Max Threads Allowed

The maximum number of threads that SQL server is configured to handle.

SQL Active Threads

The total number of the instance’s currently active threads.

SQL Executions

The total number of time that the selected statement executed during the specified time range.

System Connections

The number of SQL Server system sessions.

Total Connections

The total number of SQL Server sessions, including user and system sessions.

User Active Connections

The number of non-system sessions that are actively processing in SQL Server or that are waiting on locks.

User Connections

The number of SQL Server user (non-system) sessions, excluding SQL Server Agent sessions.

User Inactive Connections

The number of non-system sessions that are not actively processing in SQL Server.

Worker Threads Used Percent

The percentage of active threads out of the maximum number of threads that SQL server is configured to handle.

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