The High Availability drilldown shows statistics about the servers involved in transaction log shipping and database mirroring.

How to open the High Availability drilldown

From the Spotlight Client

  1. Select the connection from the left Connections pane.
  2. Click Monitor | High Availability from the ribbon.
    High Availability drilldown for SQL Server

About the High Availability drilldown

Transaction Log Shipping page

Transaction Log Shipping Primaries grid

Shows statistics relating to the primary database in the log shipping configuration.

Transaction Log Shipping Secondaries grid

Shows details about the secondary database involved in the log shipping configuration for the primary database selected in the grid above.

Transaction Log Shipping History grid

If the Primaries page is selected, this grid shows the history for backup jobs on the primary database. If the Secondaries page is selected, this grid shows the history for copy and restore jobs on the secondary database.

Transaction Log Shipping Secondaries grid

Shows statistics relating to the secondary database in the log shipping configuration.

Database Mirroring page

Database Mirroring grid

Shows statistics relating to either the principal or mirror server depending on which server Spotlight is connected to.

Database Mirroring Details

Shows the size of the unsent log on the principal server, the size of the redo queue on the mirror server, and the send rate between the two.