Monitoring SQL Server at No Cost

Danilo Dominici

You want to know how your SQL Server is performing, but you have incomplete or no data from your monitoring systems (or you don’t have one at all!). Do you know that you can monitor your SQL Server by using only a few open-source applications? And using mainly the performance counters that Windows already exposes about SQL Server? With some help from other useful queries, I’ll show in this session how to set up a complete monitoring solution with Telegraf, InfluxDB (or PostgreSQL), and Grafana.