Azure SQL Data Warehouse (legacy)

The Azure SQL Data Warehouse overview page gives you a comprehensive view of how many jobs and tasks were completed over a period of time. You can also track nodes in different states, such as running, idle, or offline.

Prerequisites

  • Dynatrace version 1.224+
  • Environment ActiveGate version 1.205+

This service monitors the data warehouse type of SQL Databases. You can find the already monitored resources on the Azure overview page in the Cloud services section.

To monitor the SQL Databases user kind, check Azure SQL Servers and the Databases components sections on the Azure overview page.

Enable monitoring

To learn how to enable service monitoring, see Enable service monitoring.

View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the custom device overview page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the custom device overview page

To access the custom device overview page

  1. Go to Technologies & Processes or Technologies & Processes Classic (latest Dynatrace).
  2. Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
  3. Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
  4. The custom device group overview page lists all instances (custom devices) belonging to the group. Select an instance to view the custom device overview page.

View metrics on your dashboard

Once you add a service to monitoring, a preset dashboard for the respective service containing all recommended metrics is automatically created on your Dashboards page. You can look for specific dashboards by filtering by Preset and then by Name.

For existing monitored services, you might need to resave your credentials for the preset dashboard to appear on the Dashboards page. To resave your credentials, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > Azure, select the desired Azure instance, then select Save.

You can't make changes on a preset dashboard directly, but you can clone and edit it. To clone a dashboard, open the browse menu () and select Clone.
To remove a dashboard from the dashboards list, you can hide it. To hide a dashboard, open the browse menu () and select Hide.

Hiding a dashboard doesn't affect other users.

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View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the custom device overview page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the custom device overview page

To access the custom device overview page

  1. Go to Technologies & Processes or Technologies & Processes Classic (latest Dynatrace).
  2. Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
  3. Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
  4. The custom device group overview page lists all instances (custom devices) belonging to the group. Select an instance to view the custom device overview page.

Available metrics

Name
Description
Dimensions
Unit
Recommended
Active queries
Active queries. Using this metric unfiltered and unsplit displays all active queries running on the system.
Count
Applicable
Blocked by firewall
The number of logins to the data warehouse from the database application that the firewall blocks.
Count
Applicable
CPU percentage
The percentage of CPU that all nodes utilize for the data warehouse.
Percent
Applicable
Cache hit percentage
The sum of all columnstore segments hits in the local SSD cache.
Percent
Cache used percentage
The sum of all bytes in the local SSD cache across all nodes.
Percent
DWU limit
The Data Warehouse Unit, which is the service-level objective of the data warehouse.
Count
Applicable
DWU percentage
The maximum value when compared between CPU percentage and Data IO percentage.
Percent
Applicable
DWU used
DWU limit * DWU percentage
Count
Applicable
Data IO percentage
The percentage of IO that all nodes utilize for the data warehouse.
Percent
Applicable
Effective cap resource percent
The effective cap resource percent for the workload group. If there are other workload groups with the effective min resource percent higher than 0, the effective cap resource percent is lowered proportionally.
Is user defined, workload group
Percent
Effective min resource percent
The effective minimum resource percentage setting allowed, considering the service level and the workload group settings.
Is user defined, workload group
Percent
Failed connections
The number of failed connections to the data warehouse from the database application.
Count
Applicable
Local tempdb percentage
The percentage of the local tempdb that all compute nodes utilize.
Percent
Memory percentage
The percentage of memory of the SQL Server utilized across all nodes for the data warehouse.
Percent
Applicable
Queued queries
Cumulative count of requests queued after the maximum concurrency limit was reached.
Count
Applicable
Successful connections
The number of successful connections to the data from the database application.
Count
Applicable
Workload group active queries
The active queries within the workload group. Using this metric unfiltered and unsplit displays all active queries running on the system.
Is user defined, workload group
Count
Workload group allocation by cap resource percent
The percentage allocation of resources relative to the effective cap resource percent per workload group. This metric provides the effective utilization of the workload group.
Is user defined, Workload group.
Percent
Workload group allocation by system percent
The percentage allocation of resources relative to the entire system.
Is user defined, workload group
Percent
Workload group query timeouts
Queries for the workload group that have timed out.
Is user defined, workload group
Count
Workload group queued queries
Cumulative count of requests queued after the maximum concurrency limit was reached.
Is user defined, workload group
Count