Percentage of database free space

 23,756 0
This metric measures the percentage of database free space - both reserved and unused - to help you manage space requirements more efficiently. For example, you might find this data helps you to correctly estimate file size, so you don't suffer from problems with automatic file growth. Read more

Percentage of used/available database space

 26,428 0
This metric measures the ratio between used database space and total available space, also taking into account current size, maximum size and the amount of free space for each drive. The values collected help you maintain control over the database storage area, and monitor database growth in combination with general space management on a database file's host. Read more

Database file size

 13,978 0
It’s important to measure the growth of databases so you can plan future space requirements, prepare for time periods when heavy volume traffic is expected, and take action in advance to prevent problems such as highly fragmented databases. Read more

Table size (MB)

 54,273 0
This metric is useful if you want to know exactly how much physical space a particular table is taking up, including the size of its indexes. Read more

What are custom metrics?

The Redgate Monitor custom metric feature lets you run SQL queries against your databases 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 database performance monitoring tool that gives you real-time and historical performance data with alerts and diagnostics.

With its embedded expertise from database 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

    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

    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

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

See all custom metrics