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Azure SQL Elastic Pools Monitoring Integration

Azure SQL elastic pools enable you to manage multiple databases on a single server with diverse requirements.

With Site24x7's integration, you can now monitor your SQL elastic pools, configure thresholds, and receive alerts about critical issues.

Setup and configuration

You can add an Azure SQL elastic pool while adding a new monitor, or you can add it to an existing Azure monitor. Follow these steps to add the service.

Supported metrics

The following metrics are collected:

Metric nameDescriptionStatisticUnit
Data Space Allocated The average data space allocated for the service Average Bytes
Data Space Allocated Percent The maximum percentage of the allocated data space Maximum Percent
CPU Limit The average CPU  usage limit Average Count
CPU Percentage The average percentage of CPU utilized Average Percent
CPU Used The amount of CPU used; this applies to vCore-based elastic pools Average Count
DTU Percentage The percentage of DataBase Transaction Units  (DTU) used Average Percent
eDTU Limit The average limit of elastic Data Throughput Units (eDTU) Average Count
eDTU Used The average amount of elastic Data Throughput Units (eDTU) used Average Count
Log IO Percentage The log write percentage Average Percent
Data IO Percentage The physical data read percentage Average Percent
Sessions Percentage The percentage of sessions utilized Average Percent
SQL Server Process Core Percent The maximum CPU usage as a percentage of the SQL database process Maximum Percent
SQL Server Process Memory Percent The maximum memory usage as a percentage of the SQL database process Maximum Percent
Data Max Size The average storage space limit  Average Bytes
Data Space Used Percent The percentage of storage space used Average Percent
Data Space Used The amount of storage space used Average Bytes
Tempdb Data File Size Kilobytes The maximum space used for temporary database data Maximum Count
Tempdb Log File Size Kilobytes The maximum space used for temporary database logs Maximum Count
Tempdb Percent Log Used The maximum percentage of space used for temporary database logs Maximum Percent
Workers Percentage The percentage of concurrent workers (requests) of the SQL elastic pools limit Average Percent
In-Memory OLTP Storage Percent The percentage of in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) storage Average Percent

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

  1. Go to the Admin section in the left navigation pane.
  2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and choose the Threshold and Availability (+) tab from the drop-down menu. Click Add Threshold Profile from the top-right corner.
  3. Select Azure SQL Elastic Pools as the monitor type. You can now set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.

Monitor-level configuration

  1. Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure SQL Elastic Pools from the drop-down menu.
  2. Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold, then click the hamburger icon Hamburger Icon. Select Edit, which will direct you to the Edit Azure SQL Elastic Pools Monitor page.
  3. You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting Threshold and Availability. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools to auto-resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors.

How to add a Configuration Rule

Related links:

How to add an Azure monitor
How to integrate an Azure App Service monitor
How to integrate Azure Virtual Machine monitor
How to configure IT Automations for a monitor
How to add a Configuration Rule

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