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. You can be up and running within minutes and it will provide you with a wealth of information that will make your life as a DBA easier.
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Daily DBA Checks
- Backups
- Last Good DBCC check
- Corruption
- Drive space
- Agent Jobs
- Availability Groups
- Log Shipping
- Mirroring
- Identity Columns
- Custom Checks and more
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Performance
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Track configuration
- sys.configuration settings
- SQL Patching
- Hardware
- Trace Flags
- Alerts
- Drivers
- TempDB and Database files
- Resource Governor
- Database options
- Query Store
- Schema changes
Track configuration across your SQL Server estate, automatically logging when changes occur
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Agent Jobs
- DDL Tracking
- Agent job timeline view
- Agent job performance monitoring
- Highlight job failures across all your SQL instances
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Option to monitor instances in isolated environments via S3 bucket.
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 8 is used by DBA Dash. You will be prompted to install the .NET runtime version 8 if it's not already installed.
Note
It's possible to run as a console app under your own user account for testing purposes.
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