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.

• Backups Agent Jobs, DBCC, Corruption, Drive space
• Availability Groups, Log Shipping, Mirroring
• OS Performance Counters + Custom Metrics
• Stored Procedure/Function/Trigger execution stats
• Capture slow queries (Extended Event trace)
• Azure DB monitoring
• Track changes to configuration, SQL Patching, drivers etc.
• Schema change tracking.
• Agent Job change tracking
• Option to monitor instances in isolated environments via S3 bucket.
• Custom Checks

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 6 is used by DBA Dash. You will be prompted to install the .NET runtime version 6 if it's not already installed.

Note It's possible to run as a console app under your own user account for testing purposes.

Installation

👋 Quick start guide here.

Upgrades

👋 See here for upgrade help

Help

👋 More help here