6,273 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.
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 has been restarted it will return a numerical value greater than 0 based on the previous and current start times of the instance.
Metric definition
Name
SQL Server instance restarted
Description
Determines whether a SQL Server instance has been restarted since last collection. Reports a value >0 if there has been a restart, 0 if not.
The T-SQL query that will collect data
Instances to collect from
The instances for which you want to be notified on a restart
Databases to collect from
master
Collection frequency
300
Use collected or calculated values
Check the Use a calculated rate of change between collections check box
Metric collection
Enabled
Alert definition
Alert name
Instance restarted
Description
Raise an alert when the metric value goes
above the defined threshholds
Default threshold values
| High: | Disabled |
| Medium: | 0 |
| Low: | Disabled |
Raise an alert when the threshold is passed for
1 collection
Alert is
Enabled
