Identify the instance

  • I have 3 sql instances installed on a server  and customer is complaining  high cpu  and memory utilisation  .How can we check on which instance having the issue ?

  • ramyours2003 - Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:11 AM

    I have 3 sql instances installed on a server  and customer is complaining  high cpu  and memory utilisation  .How can we check on which instance having the issue ?

    Not sure if you are trying to find this as the OS level or if you are trying to find issues in an instance. Not sure how a customer would know about cpu or memory use for one of the instances either but...

    If you are trying to find issues for an instance, you could start with running diagnostic queries on the instances. Glenn Berry has a great set of these for different SQL Server versions. Here is a link to the latest set:
    SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2017

    If you are trying to find which instance is which at the OS level, all of them have a process ID (PID) that you can get from Task Manager as well as cpu and memory use. You can get the PID for an instance with:

    SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProcessID')

    Sue

  • Sue_H - Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:00 AM

    ramyours2003 - Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:11 AM

    I have 3 sql instances installed on a server  and customer is complaining  high cpu  and memory utilisation  .How can we check on which instance having the issue ?

    Not sure if you are trying to find this as the OS level or if you are trying to find issues in an instance. Not sure how a customer would know about cpu or memory use for one of the instances either but...

    If you are trying to find issues for an instance, you could start with running diagnostic queries on the instances. Glenn Berry has a great set of these for different SQL Server versions. Here is a link to the latest set:
    SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2017

    If you are trying to find which instance is which at the OS level, all of them have a process ID (PID) that you can get from Task Manager as well as cpu and memory use. You can get the PID for an instance with:

    SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProcessID')

    Sue

    The process id is also shown in sql server configuration manager

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