Monitor network traffic

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Monitor network traffic

Chitown

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May 9, 2019 at 6:32 pm

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Is there a way to monitor network bandwidth on a SQL Server? My network admin is telling me that we r using over 1 terabyte of bandwidth per hour and I am not sure how to capture that. Through Perfmon?DMV?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398690 More actions · Answer 1

There are built in metrics in Permon that you can use. Here's an article. Chapter 3 (or maybe 4, I forget) of my book also discusses monitoring the network. There's little you can do about network traffic directly though, so this is a bit of a waste of time. Instead you need to ensure that queries are only moving the data they need to move and only when they need to move it. Proper filtering makes all the difference.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 2

Chitown wrote:

Is there a way to monitor network bandwidth on a SQL Server? My network admin is telling me that we r using over 1 terabyte of bandwidth per hour and I am not sure how to capture that. Through Perfmon?DMV?

"BandWidth"??? Bandwidth where? "Bandwidth" applies to many different areas. What is meant here?

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