Monitoring alerts without sql server agent

  • Company does not want to use sql server agent service (it will be disabled)

    No 3-rd party tools allowed for monitoring

    Number of servers instances involved in project 300+

    All alerts of severity 13-25 must be captured and sent by email to level1 dba support team

    same alerts can't be sent if raised within less then N numbers of seconds

    I can parse sql server log using powershell and sent emails with alerts

    Any other "generic" alert capture could be used?

    Thanks

  • They are certainly not making things easy. The "generic" approach is to use SQL Agent. I have never tried doing this without using Agent or a third party software.

    If I were forced to, I think I'd look at the Service Broker as a mechanism for doing this rather than relying on scraping the error log (especially since for some severity errors, the error log won't be there since the server will be offline).

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  • Hi

    Don't know if this is a stupid idea (you are welcome to point and laugh) but it might work...

    - Log the errors into a table

    - write an on insert trigger that sends a mail to the support team with the details of the insert.

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