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Using Redgate Monitor Groups in PowerShell

Not only are Redgate Monitor Groups probably the neatest and most maintainable way of ensuring that all your SQL Servers have the best possible configuration of alerts, but they represent a powerful way of categorizing your SQL Server estate. In this article, I'll show how to use the Redgate Monitor… Read more

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Tagging SQL Server Changes in Redgate Monitor

How to use RAISERROR() in T-SQL to send annotations to Redgate Monitor, so you can observe the direct impact of application tasks, or server changes, on the SQL Server metrics. Read more

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Monitoring SQL Server with Splunk and Redgate Monitor

Splunk is a search engine for collecting and analyzing all sorts of "machine data", including log data and metrics for SQL Server. Redgate Monitor gives you the detailed diagnostic view of all your SQL Server instances, and databases. If you have Splunk to monitor your applications and server infrastructure, and… Read more

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Monitoring TempDB Contention using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

When the tempdb database is heavily used, processes in any database on the instance will be forced to wait, due to contention as the SQL Server engine tries to manage allocation pages in tempdb. Phil Factor shows how to monitor for signs of trouble. Read more

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Azure SQL Elastic Pools and Redgate Monitor

This article explains the Azure-tailored metrics and alerts in Redgate Monitor that track use of the limited compute resources available to an Azure SQL Elastic Pool, and to each of the databases in it. Read more

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Tracking the number of active sessions on a database using Redgate Monitor

Phil Factor creates a simple custom metric to track the number of sessions that have recently done a read or write on a database. Having established a baseline for the metric, you'll be able to spot, and investigate the cause of, any wild deviations from normal behavior. Read more

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Checking on Failed Server Logins, Server Errors and Warnings using Redgate Monitor

Provides a PowerShell monitoring script for errors, warnings and critical events on the Windows server hosting your SQL Server instance, including the failed server login attempts that would accompany a brute-force password attack. Read more

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Monitoring the Application with Redgate Monitor: Website Activity

Using a PowerShell script that collects log data from a web server, plus a Redgate Monitor custom metric, Phil Factor offers a way to check for suspicious website errors and unusual patterns of activity, right alongside your database monitoring. Read more

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Monitoring Azure SQL Database with Redgate Monitor

Grant Fritchey explains the Azure-tailored metrics and alerts that you need to diagnose performance problems with your Azure SQL Databases, and let you know which resource (CPU, data IO or log IO) is the bottleneck. Read more

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Why is my SQL Server Query Suddenly Slow?

A SQL Server query is suddenly running slowly, for no obvious reason. Grant Fritchey shares a 5-point plan to help you track down the cause and fix the problem. Read more

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Using Redgate Monitor Groups in PowerShell

Tagging SQL Server Changes in Redgate Monitor

Monitoring SQL Server with Splunk and Redgate Monitor

Monitoring TempDB Contention using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

Azure SQL Elastic Pools and Redgate Monitor

Tracking the number of active sessions on a database using Redgate Monitor

Checking on Failed Server Logins, Server Errors and Warnings using Redgate Monitor

Monitoring the Application with Redgate Monitor: Website Activity

Monitoring Azure SQL Database with Redgate Monitor

Why is my SQL Server Query Suddenly Slow?

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