Percentage of ad-hoc queries

 6,797 0
This metric will display the percentage of queries on the server that are ad-hoc queries. A high percentage of ad-hoc queries can indicate that an application is running queries that are not properly parameterized. Read more

SELECT Statement executed against Classified table

 3,879 0
Uses Server and database audit to track SELECT statements. First Create a Server audit: [crayon-673f36b94fee3561829980/] Then a database specific Audit based on this server audit: (in this case on the Database: WideworldImporters, schema “Sales” and table: “Customers” [crayon-673f36b94feee988221699/] Then setup the custom metric: Read more

Database user added

 3,961 0
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

Space used by database objects

 5,173 0
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-673f36b9502de292419989/] Read more

What are custom metrics?

The Redgate 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 Redgate 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 Redgate 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.

See the Getting Started guides

What is Redgate Monitor?

Redgate 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 | 8,257 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 Redgate Monitor Team | 6,311 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 | 5,723 views |

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

See all custom metrics