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Tag Archives: monitoring
What’s Downtime?
There was a time when I worked for a company that sold products on-line Since our wares could be purchased at any time of the day or night, we wanted to ensure that our systems were running all the time. This … Continue reading
Republished: Monitoring for Non Existent Events
Over in the UK today, so the editorial is being republished: Monitoring for Non Existent Events.
Lowering the Noise
Over my career, I’ve had the chance to work in a variety of environments of all sizes. I’ve managed systems that powered all sorts of applications, with a variety of requirements. In many cases, I’ve had certain databases that needed … Continue reading
Monitor All the Changes
Can you monitor every configuration change and setting on all your SQL Server instances? Can you get an alert every time code changes, or even if an option for an object changes, such as the changing of an EXECUTE AS … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged administration, monitoring, sql server
What is the Future of Monitoring?
I read Tom LaRock’s post on the future of monitoring, looking at the rise of machine learning and complex algorithms to evaluate systems. Tom notes that the data input into a system is crucial in determining whether the system can … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged administration, machine learning, monitoring
Monitoring and Alerting
Monitoring your systems is important. It’s not just me that thinks so, as plenty of experienced DBAs and developers know the value of monitoring. Heck, most people have learned to build some sort of metric collection into their software. Azure … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged administration, monitoring
Gauges and Alarms
I was looking through the news this week and found a piece by Michael J. Swart that I really enjoyed. It talks about different types of metrics that he has used when monitoring and alerting on his database servers. Michaal talks about … Continue reading
Finding Production Drift
A few years ago when I started delivering presentations about automating database delivery with Grant Fritchey, I was surprised by something. We were rehearsing a talk and Grant mentioned that there were really only two places where we knew the … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged DevOps, monitoring, sql server
Awareness
How often have you been caught off guard by some issue with one of your databases? I would guess most people have received a phone call, email, or trouble ticket that alerts them to the fact that something has gone … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged Database Weekly, monitoring
T-SQL Tuesday #66 – Monitoring SQL Server
This is a T-SQL Tuesday that not only makes me smile, but makes my boss happy. In fact, I’m sure that quite a few people at Redgate Software, my employer, are thrilled with this topic since we have a product … Continue reading