Database Monitoring is a mission-critical discipline for many database professionals. With the growth of data-driven applications on the web, many organizations are seeing an increase in database queries that can be more than hundreds or thousands per second. The number of database connections can grow to hundreds, and days may elapse between database connection timeouts. This session will cover the basics of monitoring these metrics and techniques to uncover why your database utilization patterns are trending in an undesirable direction.
A database monitoring tool that can help you optimize your database performance. The application provides real-time tracking, dashboards, and alerts to failure events. You can use NPEC’s database monitoring to see which pages take the longest to process or identify the queries that take the longest time when executing. Database performance can be tricky to monitor, with factors such as data size, query algorithm, and hardware configuration affecting performance. To avoid issues for your end-users (a critical aspect of business success), it’s essential to monitor your database performance and understand what’s happening under the hood of your database servers. This article will discuss why it’s worth investing in a database performance monitoring tool and explain four best practices related to the subject.
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How Database Monitoring Can Help Your Business
• Reduce Costs for your business
• Become Proactive in your Monitoring instead of Reactive
• Improve Database and Application Performance
• Quicker and More Productive Log Analyzation
• Gain Better Insights on Database Performance and Health
Database Monitoring Best Practices
Our Database Monitoring solution is the first to empower DBAs and developers by highlighting all slow queries, enabling faster troubleshooting, faster resolution, and better overall performance.
Database Monitoring is a simple yet powerful tool that addresses performance issues related to connection requests and queries to the MySQL database. The product runs alongside an existing MySQL database and monitors associated processes. It generates alerts when there is a problem, such as excessive time spent on a single query or too many connections. The solution uses a knowledge base to pinpoint and troubleshoot the problem automatically.
Our database monitoring tracks your SQL performance so you can focus on what matters. You’ll be alerted to expensive queries so that you can increase the speed of your app. Slow-performing queries and high resource usage is a problem for many database users. You need to monitor your questions to see if there are problems or why your queries are slow or using more resources than they should. Our Monitoring solution will do all of this, and save you time, simplify the process of monitoring your queries, and help you increase application performance.
Database Monitoring provides a review of all SQL and Windows logs, ensuring 24/7 database availability. In addition, the alert engine monitors for critical errors and generates notifications via SNMP traps to a centralized server or through an email gateway. Database Server Monitoring is a highly efficient solution for monitoring database performance and preventing failures caused by human error.
Benefits of Database Monitoring
Manage & Monitor SQL Jobs
Monitoring utilities will be in place to alert to SQL Job failures. NPEC will resolve job failures. NPEC does not know your environment thoroughly and will not apply fixes to database objects such as stored procedures or T-SQL logic in jobs. NPEC will troubleshoot, point to the problem, and will alert development/management.
Index Rebuilds & Defragmentation
Indexes routinely become fragmented leading to poor performance. An NPEC utility first analyzes for fragmentation; any index > 10% fragmentation will be rebuilt after hours or during the maintenance window. An online index rebuild will be implemented if the maintenance window is narrow or not available.
Monitor OS & SQL Instance W/ PerfMon Counters
NPEC will monitor your production servers using Performance Monitor counters for CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, and SQL Counters, including User Conns, Transactions/sec, Buffer Cache, Procedure Cache, etc. Counter results will be displayed inline graphs for readability and provided to management with NPEC opinion and translation.
Performance Tuning
Unlike most remote DBA services, NPEC is actively involved in performance tuning queries and database activity.
Backup Strategy / DR Server (Warm Standby)
NPEC will set up a backup strategy to minimize data loss and downtime in the event of database server failure. Backup plan to include setup and maintenance of Disaster Recovery database servers. These Warm Standby server(s) will receive data via Log Shipping or Mirroring.
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Available For Performance Troubleshooting Via 24×7
NPEC will be available for performance troubleshooting anytime, day or night.
Remote Service Pack and Patch Management
NPEC will provide remote installation support of operating system and database server patches and service packs. On-site support by the client administrators is necessary to manage.
T-SQL Code Review And Production Deployments
Code submitted for review to be replied to within 24 hours. Production deployment of T-SQL code offered, allow 24 hours’ notice. Requests for weekend deploys should be 48 hours in advance.
Architectural Consulting
Architectural consultations included; any consults requiring extended hours will be potentially billed hourly.
Replication For Reporting
SQL Server Transactional Replication to be configured and maintained for scale-out reporting solutions.
Let NPEC Take the Pressure
Database monitoring software is a critical part of any software infrastructure. Database performance monitoring is mandatory if you’re responsible for the health and performance of applications and their underlying infrastructure. Your database shouldn’t be a black box that you peek into only when things go wrong or when it’s time to investigate a failed transaction or slow query. It should be one of the first tools you use in diagnosing performance problems and bottlenecks so that they can be caught early, long before they become serious issues.
To ensure the highest performance in your database, Database Monitoring systems are essential when handling high volumes of traffic or running sensitive applications that require uninterrupted functionality. By using NPEC for Database Monitoring, you can ensure there are no problems before they happen.
