• Robert.Sterbal (11/8/2010)


    A really neat product, I'm especially interested in how you came up with this list of performance counters, and if the list is considered proprietary:

    Machine: processor time

    Avg. CPU queue length

    Machine: memory used

    Memory pages/sec

    Network utilization

    Disk used

    Disk avg. read time

    Disk avg. write time

    Disk transfers/sec

    Avg. disk queue length

    User connections

    SQL Server: processor time

    SQL Server: total memory

    SQL Server: target memory

    Batch requests/sec

    Compilations/sec

    Compilations/batch

    Recompilations/sec

    Buffer cache hit ratio

    Buffer free pages

    Buffer page life expectancy

    Full scans/sec

    Page splits/sec

    Page splits/batch request

    Latch wait time

    Lock timeouts/sec

    Lock waits/sec

    Avg. lock wait time

    Transactions/sec

    Active transactions

    Total size

    Data size

    Log size

    Log space used

    Log bytes flushed/sec

    Log flushes/sec

    Log flush waits/sec

    Thanks for the wonderful detail about each counter. It would be nice to see it posted on this website.

    about 9 months ago i started to really monitor our SQL servers and set up perfmon. i just selected any counter which i thought could be remotely useful. made some reports in SSIS but haven't had much time for really doing something with the data