DBA Dash - SQL Server Monitoring Tool
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Documentation is now available on dbadash.com, including an easy to follow quick start guide.
Project Summary
DBA Dash is a tool for SQL Server DBAs to assist with daily checks, performance monitoring and change tracking.
- Backups Agent Jobs, DBCC, Corruption, Drive space
- Availability Groups, Log Shipping, Mirroring
- OS Performance Counters + Custom Metrics
- Stored Procedure/Function/Trigger execution stats
- Capture slow queries (Extended Event trace)
- Azure DB monitoring
- Track changes to configuration, SQL Patching, drivers etc.
- Schema change tracking.
- Agent Job change tracking
- Option to monitor instances in isolated environments via S3 bucket.
- Custom Checks
What DBA Dash collects and when
Video Overview
Requirements
- SQL Server 2016 SP1 or later required for DBADashDB repository database. RDS & Azure DB is supported.
- SQL 2008-SQL 2022 supported for monitored instances - including Azure and RDS (SQL Server).
- Windows machine to run agent. Agent can monitor multiple SQL instances.
Prerequisites
- Account to use for agent. Review the security doc for required permissions.
- .NET Desktop Runtime 6 is used by DBA Dash. You will be prompted to install the .NET runtime version 6 if it's not already installed.
Note It's possible to run as a console app under your own user account for testing purposes.