Metrics install automatically if you have Redgate Monitor installed.
If you are using Redgate’s SQL Server monitoring tool, Redgate Monitor, you can instantly install and run this metric on your servers.
To determine the general load on the operating system you can get a count of the processes that are in a runnable state. This value will go up and down as various systems run on the operating system. It’s only a measure of load on the system and won’t indicate the cause of problems, but will show you pressure on the system.
Metric definition
Name
Processes in a runnable state (scheduler query)
Description
Shows the number of active processes in the Windows OS.
The T-SQL query that will collect data
Instances to collect from
Select all
Databases to collect from
master
Collection frequency
300
Use collected or calculated values
Leave the Use a calculated rate of change between collections check box unchecked
Metric collection
Enabled
Alert definition
An alert is not required