Replication Archives - Redgate Monitor Metrics

Distributor With Undelivered Commands

by Grant Fritchey

1,881 0 Replication

We can identify when a distributor has undelivered commands. You can’t tell which database it is though. You’ll have to go to the distributor and run queries. Read more

Subscriber Data Validation Failed

by Grant Fritchey

1,625 0 Replication

Uses the data from sysreplication alerts within the msdb database to identify any alerts of value 20574. This indicates a data validation of the subscriber. You will have to look to the error log to understand exactly which subscriber has failed. Only run this on a distribution server. Read more

Disabled replication jobs

by TJay Belt

12,444 0 Best Practice, Replication

This metric investigates replication jobs, searching for any that may be disabled inappropriately. If any of your replication jobs have been disabled inappropriately, you may not be aware of their state. 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.

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Featured custom metrics

Total database file size

by Hugo Kornelis | 8,255 views | Memory Performance Storage

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 | 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 | 5,723 views | Compliance

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