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SQL Virtual Log Files Count alarm This alarm is raised on the SQL Server | Overview page | Disk Storage panel | Log Files component when the count of Virtual Log Files (VLFs) is excessive.
Tempdb Auto Growth alarm This alarm is raised when Tempdb is configured to auto grow and a significant number of growth events are detected.
Tempdb Contention alarm This alarm is raised when Tempdb is experiencing contention
Tempdb Version Store Generation Rate Alarm This alarm is raised when the Tempdb Version Store growth rate is high compared to the cleanup rate.
Tempdb Version Store Size alarm This alarm is raised when the Tempdb version store is too large for your environment.
Compiles - Percentage Recompilations alarm The Compiles - Percentage Recompilations alarm becomes active when the average ratio between the number of recompiles and the total number of compiles exceed...
CPU Time Percentage Used CPU Time Percentage Used alarm is active when the stress on the processors for the specific Azure SQL Managed Instance connection exceeds a threshold. This v...
Databases - Data File Group About to Grow The Databases - Data File Group About to Grow alarm is raised when a file in the disk group is about to grow. You can use this information to ensure the time...
Databases - Data File Group Space Used alarm The Databases - Data File Group Space Used Alarm is raised when a disk group (or the actual disk) is in danger of filling.
Databases - Dynamic Data File Group Growths Remaining alarm The Databases - Dynamic Data File Group Growths Remaining alarm is raised when the disk space is insufficient for files to keep growing into or the maximum f...
Databases - Dynamic Log File Growths Remaining alarm The Databases - Dynamic Log File Growths Remaining alarm becomes active when a non fixed size log file in any database is in danger of running out of space t...
Databases - Log File Space Used alarm The Databases - Log File Space Used Alarm becomes active when a log in any database is in danger of filling.
Databases - Log Flush Wait Time Alarm The Databases - Log Flush Wait Time alarm becomes active when the duration of the last log flush for a database exceeds a threshold.
Databases - SQL I/O Errors alarm The Databases - SQL I/O Errors alarm is raised when I/O errors are encountered by Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Databases - Unavailable alarm The Databases - Unavailable alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects that an Azure SQL Managed Instance database is not available for reading. ...
Error Log - Error Count alarm The Error Log - Error Count alarm counts the total number of entries that were filtered from the SQL Server Error Log during the last sampling period accordi...
Error Log - Fatal Current Process Error (severity level 20) alarm The Error Log - Fatal Current Process Error (severity level 20) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new fatal error message that contain...
Error Log - Fatal Database Integrity Suspect Error (severity level 23) alarm The Error Log - Fatal Database Integrity Suspect Error (severity level 23) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new fatal error message t...
Error Log - Fatal Database (dbid) Processes Error (severity level 21) alarm The Error Log - Fatal Database (dbid) Processes Error (severity level 21) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new fatal error message th...
Error Log - Fatal Hardware Error (severity level 24) alarm The Error Log - Fatal Hardware Error (severity level 24) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new fatal error message that contains the l...
Error Log - Fatal Hardware Error (severity level 25) alarm The Error Log - Fatal Hardware Error (severity level 25) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new fatal error message that contains the l...
Error Log - Fatal Table Integrity Suspect Error (severity level 22) alarm The Error Log - Fatal Table Integrity Suspect Error (severity level 22) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new fatal error message that...
Error Log - High Severity Error Log Message alarm The Error Log - High Severity Error Log Message alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new error message that contains one of the custom lo...
Error Log - Information Severity Error Log Message alarm The Error Log - Information Severity Error Log Message alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new error message that contains one of the cu...
Error Log - Low Severity Error Log Message alarm The Error Log - Low Severity Error Log Message alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new error message that contains one of the custom log...
Error Log - Medium Severity Error Log Message alarm The Error Log - Medium Severity Error Log Message alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new error message that contains one of the custom ...
Error Log - Critical Error (severity level lower than 20) alarm The Error Log - Critical Error (severity level lower than 20) alarm becomes active when Spotlight Enterprise detects a new error message that contains one o...
Index Fragmentation alarm The Index Fragmentation alarm is raised when the largest index partition on the Azure SQL Managed Instance is more than 5% fragmented. It is a good idea to d...
Index Fragmentation Status alarm The Index Fragmentation Status alarm is raised when data cannot be collected.
I/O Stall Time alarm The I/O Stall Time alarm becomes active when the average I/O wait time for any database file exceeds a threshold. This value is taken over a specific number ...
Latch - Total Wait Time Rate alarm Latches are monitored to help identify performance bottlenecks.
Locks - Blocked Processes alarm The Locks - Blocked Processes alarm is raised when a block persists for longer than the time specified in the threshold. The default is 120 seconds.
Locks - Deadlocks alarm The Locks - Deadlocks alarm is raised when the number of deadlocks that have occurred since the previous data collection exceeds a threshold.
Memory - Free System Page Table Entries alarm The Memory - Free System Page Table Entries (PTE) alarm is raised when this performance counter falls below a threshold.
Memory - Page Life Expectancy alarm The Memory - Page Life Expectancy alarm becomes active when the page life expectancy falls below a threshold.
Memory - Percentage Free Virtual Memory alarm This alarm is activated when the average free virtual memory drops below a threshold. This value is taken over a specific number of background collections.
Memory - Physical Memory Available alarm The Memory - Physical Memory Available alarm is activated when the available memory drops below a threshold.
Missing SQL Performance Counters alarm Spotlight Enterprise uses the Azure SQL Managed Instance virtual table sysperfinfo to retrieve data for many of its displays. In some rare cases, this table ...
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Alarm Action Failure alarm Raised when a (specified action) failed to evaluate.
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Alarm Evaluation Failure alarm Spotlight failed to evaluate the specified alarm from the given collection.
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Collection Execution Failure alarm The specified collection failed to run against this server.
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Connection Failure alarm Spotlight has failed to connect to the Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Host Not Defined alarm
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Planned Outage alarm This alarm is raised during a planned outage of the connection. Spotlight will resume monitoring the service at the end of the planned outage period.
Monitored Server - Azure SQL Managed Instance Secondary Connection Failure alarm The service is not responding.
Network - Percentage Bandwidth alarm The average network bandwidth capacity of the specified network card is nearing the limit where it is saturating the network link. This value is taken over a...
Network - Azure SQL Managed Instance Packets Error Rate alarm The Network - Azure SQL Managed Instance Packets Error Rate alarm becomes active when the rate at which Azure SQL Managed Instance is encountering network pa...
Paging - Disk Activity alarm This alarm is activated when paging is low, but the average disk activity on a paging file disk is high. This value is taken over a specific number of backgr...
Paging - File Collision alarm This alarm becomes active when there is more than one paging file on a single physical disk.
Performance Investigator alarm
Poor Performance Health Alarm The database is spending too much time waiting for bottlenecks such as locks and latches.
Services - Full Text Search alarm This alarm becomes active when this SQL Server supporting service is installed but not active.
SQL - Long Running SQL alarm The SQL - Long Running SQL alarm is raised when SQL has been running longer than a configured time. Because the (configured time) is unique to each environme...
SQL - Running out of Threads alarm The SQL - Running out of Threads alarm is raised when the number of worker threads in use is high compared to the maximum number of worker threads configured.
SQL Agent - Jobs Failed alarm The SQL Agent - Jobs Failed alarm is raised when Spotlight Enterprise detects that at least one SQL Agent job has failed in the last few minutes.
SQL Agent - Long Running Jobs (Percent) alarm The SQL Agent - Long Running Jobs (Percent) alarm is raised when a SQL Agent job has been running for considerably longer than the average run time for SQL A...
SQL Agent - Long Running Jobs (Time) alarm The SQL Agent - Long Running Jobs (Time) alarm is raised when a SQL Agent job has been running for a long time.
SQL Custom Counters alarm The Custom Counters alarm is raised when the values of any of the custom counters you have configured exceed their thresholds or data collection fails.
Storage Free Space This alarm relies on the Resources Utilization Summary, which considers the total storage space available in the environment where an Azure SQL Managed Insta...
Storage Percentage Used This alarm depends on the Resources Utilization Summary, specifically the percentage of storage space available where an Azure SQL Managed Instance is deployed.
User - Connection Count alarm The User - Connection Count alarm is raised when the number of users connected exceeds a threshold.
User - Logins Per Second alarm The User - Logins Per Second alarm is raised when the average number of logins per second exceeds a threshold. This value is taken over a specific number of ...
User - Response Time alarm The User - Response Time alarm is raised when the time taken for Spotlight to send a simple query to the monitored Azure SQL Managed instance, have it proces...