Suggestion for SQL Server Alerts

  • I am setting up a production server and I was look for a good list of generic Alerts I should set up on the server. Do you have any suggestions?

  • Space (log and data) are always good. You might want deadlocks. Not sure I'd set many more without intending to watch for a specific problem.

    Steve Jones

    sjones@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones

  • Do you set the space alerts for the system db's, application db's, or both? Also, would you recommend alerts on cpu utilization and memory utilization?

    Thanks for the help.

  • Both and no alerts on mem or cpu.

    The cpu can easily peg for moments on a query and I don't want to know it. It usually resolves itself. If it continues, I'd run perfmon or profiler and figure out why. Same for memory.

    Steve Jones

    sjones@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones

  • What is the best way of setting up alerts for space used in the data file? Log space used is obviously easy as percent used is there aa a counter! I would like an alert that triggers when the datafile percent used is >= 60%

  • I would say it depends on your configuration.

    Having 40% freespace left in your log could be few as it coud be far enough.

    40% of 18 GB is much less then 40% of 1,8TB.

    You have also to know how dynamically is your database/ log/tempdb is growing.

    So you can define your own values sometimes 40% freespace left, sometimes 1% freespace left.

    But I would definitly monitor your DB, LOG and the tempdb sizes.

    The other system databases are quite statical, they wouldn't grow dramatically



    Bye
    Gabor

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