Management Data Warehouse

Monitoring on the cheap

• Senior Consultant – Aphelion Software• Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist• Co-lead JHB Business Intelligence Developer Network• Lead - IntelliCape B.I. User Group

Matt Horn

Agenda

MD What??

Setting it up

Built in reports

Extending with custom collector sets

• Troubleshooting is a pain in the neck• Time consuming• “After The Fact”• Basically wait for it to happen again while you are looking.

MD What??

• Relational Database• Built in reports• Introduced in SQL Sever 2008

MD What??

• Reactive to Proactive.• Continuous performance monitoring.• Easy to retrieve.• Easy to interpret.

Management Data Warehouse

• Disk Usage - Collected and uploaded every 6 hours

• Query Statistics - every 60 seconds uploaded every 15 minutes

• Server Statistics - every 10 seconds uploaded every 15 minutes

Data Collection out the box

• Two Separate jobs • First job collects and stores in temp location• Second job uploads• Scheduled independently

Cached mode

• One job collects and uploads• Allows for immediate access to the collected data• Heavy on performance – avoid if collecting from multiple instances

Non Cached mode

Demo!

• DON’T CHANGE TABLE STRUCTURE• DON’T TOUCH THE DATA• DO USE THE API TO RETRIEVE THE DATA• MAKE SURE SQL AGENT IS RUNNING• CREATE SMALLER COLLECTOR SETS• STAGGER UPLOAD SCHEDULES

PRO TIPS!

Be selective in what you collect

• Matt Horn (Mhorn@aphelion.bi)• @Maxui (Twitter)• www.intellicape.blogspot.com (B.I. User Group)

Thank you and Goodnight