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Tables without clustered indexes defined

by Fabiano Amorim
12,869 0 Best Practice, Performance
This metric measures the number of tables without clustered indexes defined that contain more than 1000 rows per database. Read more

Possible duplicate indexes

by Fabiano Amorim
15,680 0 Best Practice, Performance
When a table has multiple indexes defined on the same columns, it produces duplicate indexes that waste space and have a negative impact on performance. Read more

Performance-related database settings

by Jonathan Allen
12,192 0 Best Practice, Performance
If you manage a server where you are not in complete control of the creation of databases, or you’re unfamiliar with what settings to change, you may miss things out or set them incorrectly. Read more
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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 | 8,656 views | MemoryPerformanceStorage

    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 | 6,635 views | Performance

    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 | 6,031 views | Compliance

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

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