Ive found when the capture of the extended events listener is stopped by timeout that the session object in Extended Events on SQL is not deleted. If I stop a capture session by pressing CTRL-C in the cmd window, it does get removed. Im running this on an Azure SQL database with WorkloadTools v1.5.7.
Here is the .json that im running to trigger the capture:
Here are the 2 outputs from the console (allowing it to timeout in the first result):
C:\WINDOWS\system32>"C:\Program Files\WorkloadTools\SqlWorkload.exe" -F "C:\Temp\WorkloadTools\DSExtendedEventsOnly.json"
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : SqlWorkload, Version=1.5.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null 1.5.7
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : Reading configuration from 'C:\Temp\WorkloadTools\DSExtendedEventsOnly.json'
Info - WorkloadTools.Listener.ExtendedEvents.ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener : Reading Extended Events session definition from C:\Program Files\WorkloadTools\Listener\ExtendedEvents\sqlworkload.sql
Info - WorkloadTools.WorkloadController : Listener of type ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener initialized correctly. Waiting for events.
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : Controller stopped.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>"C:\Program Files\WorkloadTools\SqlWorkload.exe" -F "C:\Temp\WorkloadTools\DSExtendedEventsOnly.json"
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : SqlWorkload, Version=1.5.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null 1.5.7
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : Reading configuration from 'C:\Temp\WorkloadTools\DSExtendedEventsOnly.json'
Info - WorkloadTools.Listener.ExtendedEvents.ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener : Reading Extended Events session definition from C:\Program Files\WorkloadTools\Listener\ExtendedEvents\sqlworkload.sql
Info - WorkloadTools.WorkloadController : Listener of type ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener initialized correctly. Waiting for events.
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : Received shutdown signal...
Info - SqlWorkload.Program : Controller stopped.
Info - WorkloadTools.Listener.ExtendedEvents.ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener : Disposing ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener.
Ive found when the capture of the extended events listener is stopped by timeout that the session object in Extended Events on SQL is not deleted. If I stop a capture session by pressing CTRL-C in the cmd window, it does get removed. Im running this on an Azure SQL database with WorkloadTools v1.5.7.
Here is the .json that im running to trigger the capture:
Here are the 2 outputs from the console (allowing it to timeout in the first result):