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Come see your SQL Perfmon in the cloud

Talkat SQLBits 2022 · 2022-03-08..03-12· [databases, observability]
name:Bob Ward
linkedin:bobwardms
slides:none on file

Database Watcher is a managed monitoring pipeline that pulls query store, >200 perf counters and 70+ views from databases, managed instances, elastic pools and replicas into a custo data store (Azure Data Explorer / Fabric) where dashboards and KQL or T-SQL ad‑hoc queries run. Agents run remotely with private endpoints, typical ingestion is <1s 90th percentile (max single‑digit seconds), sampling as frequent as 10s, default retention one year, Watcher resources are free and initial limit is 50 targets per watcher.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 8:59Estate dashboard real-time
  3. 13:12Database perf dashboards
  4. 20:04Q&A
  5. 26:26Architecture data collection
  6. 32:01Querying with KQL SQL
  7. 39:04Cost roadmap docs
  8. 43:17Q&A closing
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