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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale monitoring

  • How-to guide
  • 2-min read
  • Published Apr 13, 2021

Dynatrace ingests metrics from Azure Metrics API for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.

Prerequisites

  • Dynatrace version 1.215+
  • Environment ActiveGate version 1.205+

This service monitors the hyperscale type of SQL Databases. You can find the already monitored resources on the Azure overview page in the Cloud services section or use a dashboard preset. 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.
  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

If the service has a preset dashboard, you'll get a preset dashboard for the respective service containing all recommended metrics 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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Hyperscale
Hyperscale

Available metrics

NameDescriptionUnitRecommended

allocated_data_storage

Data space allocated

Byte

Applicable

base_blob_size_bytes

Base blob storage size

Byte

blocked_by_firewall

Blocked by firewall

Count

Applicable

connection_failed

Failed connections

Count

Applicable

connection_successful

Successful connections

Count

Applicable

cpu_limit

CPU limit

Count

Applicable

cpu_percent

CPU percentage

Percent

Applicable

cpu_used

CPU used

Count

Applicable

deadlock

Deadlocks

Count

Applicable

log_backup_size_bytes

Log backup storage size

Byte

Applicable

log_write_percent

Log IO percentage

Percent

physical_data_read_percent

Data IO percentage

Percent

Applicable

sessions_percent

Sessions percentage

Percent

Applicable

snapshot_backup_size_bytes

Snapshot backup storage size

Byte

sqlserver_process_core_percent

SQL server process core percent

Percent

sqlserver_process_memory_percent

SQL server process memory percent

Percent

tempdb_data_size

Tempdb data file size kb

Count

tempdb_log_size

Tempdb log file size kb

Count

tempdb_log_used_percent

Tempdb percent log used

Percent

Applicable

workers_percent

Workers percentage

Percent

Applicable

xtp_storage_percent

In-memory OLTP storage percent

Percent

Related tags
Infrastructure ObservabilityAzure