Tag Archives: monitoring

The Single Pane of Glass

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

One of the things that I’ve seen talked about quite in the DevOps movement is a single pane of glass. That phrase seems to be in use to describe a way of quickly understanding the state of your environment. It … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Costs

Posted on September 18, 2018 by

I’m a believer in instrumentation and metrics being regularly gathered from your systems. Across the years I’ve built and bought monitoring software to use in various jobs, sometimes in layers where one piece of software uses data from another to … Continue reading →

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Be Prepared with Baselines

Posted on June 11, 2018 by

I visited a doctor recently, and he told me a measurement he’d made. I asked if it was good or bad, and he said he had no idea. The value varied too much from person to person, and without values … Continue reading →

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What’s Downtime?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

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 →

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Republished: Monitoring for Non Existent Events

Posted on February 27, 2018 by

Over in the UK today, so the editorial is being republished: Monitoring for Non Existent Events.

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Lowering the Noise

Posted on January 30, 2018 by

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 →

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Monitor All the Changes

Posted on November 22, 2016 by

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 →

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What is the Future of Monitoring?

Posted on September 28, 2016 by

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 →

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Monitoring and Alerting

Posted on June 30, 2016 by

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 →

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Gauges and Alarms

Posted on August 8, 2015 by

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 →

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