SELECT Statement executed against Classified table

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Uses Server and database audit to track SELECT statements. First Create a Server audit: [crayon-5c12b7cc04eb6684400746/] Then a database specific Audit based on this server audit: (in this case on the Database: WideworldImporters, schema “Sales” and table: “Customers” [crayon-5c12b7cc04ebd910777405/] Then setup the custom metric: Read more

Full backup to odd path

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This custom metric queries the MSDB database to search for multiple paths for a full backup Read more

Database user added

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This custom metric queries the default trace to find events related to whenever a login is added as a database user to a database. Read more

Login added to serverrole

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This custom metric queries the default trace to find events related to Server roles being altered Read more

New Server Login Added

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This custom metric queries the default trace to find events related to creation of new Server Logins Read more

Space used by database objects

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This metric reports the total space used by database files in GB. This includes data files but excludes log files. This lets you track the growth of the databases over time so you can be aware of future space requirements. Alternatively, the following T-SQL can be used for SQL Server 2012 and higher: [crayon-5c12b7cc05064927066397/] Read more

Non-Microsoft loaded modules

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This metric returns the number of non-Microsoft modules loaded into the SQL Server address space. Having a lot of modules loaded into the address space can cause performance issues in SQL Server. This metric lets you keep an eye on how many modules you have, other than those created by Microsoft. Thanks to Nicolaas Botes for […] Read more

SQL Server instance restarted

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This metric and alert will notify you when a SQL Server instance is restarted for any reason. The value returned by the metric is not useful on its own, and is only used by the alert to detect changes. When the server has not been restarted it will report 0 , and when the server […] Read more

Default user service account

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This metric checks whether SQL Server services are running under any of the default accounts, such as localsystem. Using a default account for SQL Server services can be a security risk. Read more

Principals with sysadmin login

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This metric counts the number of principals who are members of the sysadmin fixed server role. Adding a normal user to this role could pose a security risk and is not recommended. Read more

What are custom metrics?

The SQL Monitor custom metric feature lets you run T-SQL queries against your SQL Servers to collect specific data. You can analyze and receive alerts about your custom data just like everything else SQL Monitor collects.

But what if you don’t want to write your own queries? No problem. Redgate has brought together a range of quality custom metrics for you to use in SQL Monitor, which are all are free, tried and tested. You can install straight away, and use the resources on this site to help you write your own.

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What is SQL Monitor?

SQL Monitor is a SQL Server performance monitoring tool that gives you real-time and historical SQL Server performance data with alerts and diagnostics.

With its embedded expertise from SQL Server experts and MVPs, it gives you the information and advice you need to find and fix issues before users are even aware.

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Featured custom metrics

  • Total database file size

    by Hugo Kornelis | 752 views |

    This custom metric measures the total database file size (data files and log file combined). An increase in this metric signals that a database was grown. When not done by the DBA, this is an autogrow. Excessive autogrow events should be prevented as this can result to file fragmentation. Try to manually grow files before […] Read more

  • Number of active backups and restores

    by SQL Monitor Team | 648 views |

    This metric will display the total number of active backups and restores on a server. This can be used to correlate with other metrics to explain why disk IO and CPU usage could have changed. Read more

  • Full backup to odd path

    by Eelco Drost | 617 views |

    This custom metric queries the MSDB database to search for multiple paths for a full backup Read more

See all custom metrics