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jbates99
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

396 Posts

Posted - 2013-02-02 : 17:45:52
I have several 2008 R2 instances running on Windows Server 2008.

1. What are some of the more common things that you alert on?

2. And is there a list of all the possible criteria or situations that you can alert on?

Thanks for any ideas. Jack

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2013-02-03 : 14:14:28
1. Disk space, performance conditions, job failures, transaction log full, filegroups full, etc.
2. We use SCOM for our monitoring. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of possible alerts.

Tara Kizer
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jbates99
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

396 Posts

Posted - 2013-02-03 : 17:39:04
Thanks Tara. I prefer to use SQL Server to monitor for database-related situations such as job failures and t-log full conditions. And use SCOM for non-SQL metrics such as disk space and performance.

Can SCOM alert on agent job failures too?

Thanks, John
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srimami
Posting Yak Master

160 Posts

Posted - 2013-02-04 : 05:50:19
Yes, you can use SCOM for Agent Job failures too. Also, if you need only few alert notifications, why to use third party tools? You can better manage with Sql Server only.
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jackv
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2179 Posts

Posted - 2013-02-05 : 04:58:10
What I've found on larger environments is to keep your alerts for situations to a focused list. It is tempting to monitor on a very wide range of situations - but it can create noise.
Here is a list of SQL Server monitoring situations I apply . http://www.sqlserver-dba.com/2011/01/sql-server-monitoring-situations.html

Jack Vamvas
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