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LogicMonitor comes ready to monitor your Microsoft SQL Server database infrastructure, whether you’re running it on Windows, Linux, Docker containers, or hosted at Azure.
LogicMonitor’s SQL Server monitoring primarily uses SQL database queries to poll internal SQL monitoring tables. Connections are made through JDBC connection strings using Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication.
Note: LogicMonitor can monitor Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFCs) on SQL Server. See Windows Server Failover Cluster (on SQL Server) Monitoring for details on using our SQL Server monitoring and WSFC monitoring in parallel.
LogicMonitor’s Microsoft SQL Server package is confirmed to be compatible with SQL Server 2005 through 2019.
Due to the many potential configurations of SQL Server, LogicMonitor may not be able to provide out-of-the-box compatibility in all environments. It may be necessary for you to manually configure some aspects of the solution.
As Microsoft releases newer versions of SQL Server, LogicMonitor will test and extend coverage as necessary.
Add your SQL Server hosts into monitoring. For more information on adding resources into monitoring, see Adding Devices.
LogicMonitor must be able to provide the appropriate credentials in order to successfully access each instance of SQL Server. These credentials must belong to a user account with the following minimum SQL Server permissions:
GRANT VIEW ANY DEFINITION TO <USERNAME> GRANT VIEW SERVER STATE TO <USERNAME> GRANT VIEW ANY DATABASE TO <USERNAME> GO USE MSDB CREATE USER <USERNAME> FOR LOGIN <USERNAME> GRANT SELECT ON SYSJOBS TO <USERNAME> GRANT SELECT ON SYSJOBHISTORY TO <USERNAME> GRANT SELECT ON SYSJOBACTIVITY TO <USERNAME>
Note: As best practice, do not use a user account with system administrator privileges for monitoring.
As discussed next, the user account that LogicMonitor uses to connect with SQL Server will be authenticated by either Windows or SQL Server, depending upon the operating system upon which SQL Server is running.
By default, LogicMonitor assumes Integrated Security is used and will attempt to connect with SQL Server using Windows authentication, not SQL authentication. LogicMonitor uses the Windows credentials that are associated with the user on the Collector; therefore, the user on the Collector must have the minimum SQL Server permissions mentioned previously. There is no way to update the user associated with the Collector to an alternate user with Integrated Security.
If Integrated Security is not configured, connection can be authorized via JDBC credentials, as discussed in the following section. Otherwise, JDBC credentials, even if present as properties on the Collector, are ignored.
Conditional requirement:
For direct SQL authentication, JDBC credentials are required. These credentials are configured as properties (jdbc.mssql.user and jdbc.mssql.pass) on the host. If there are different authentications for individual SQL instances then the mssql.<instance name>.user and mssql.<instance name>.pass properties are used instead. For more information on these and other properties available for assignment on SQL Server hosts, see the next section of this support article.
The following properties can be set on the SQL Server resource within LogicMonitor. LogicMonitor strives to auto-discover all properties needed for SQL Server configurations. However, there may be use cases where you will need to manually enter properties or override auto-discovered properties. For more information on assigning properties, see Resource and Instance Properties.
In February 2020, LogicMonitor’s SQL Server package received significant updates to enhance performance and have a lower impact on Collector and SQL Server load. As a result of these updates, some DataSources may create new instances with new names. This is the result of fixes to earlier DataSource versions that were creating non-conforming instance names. If new instances are created, the old instances will no longer collect data but will remain in place (until you manually delete them) for historical purposes.
In addition, the following DataSources were deprecated:
SQL Server Performance Objects and counters are installed automatically as part of the installation. If these objects and counters are missing, it is likely that the installation process experienced an error which resulted in the counters not being properly installed.
A definitive way to check if failures have occurred is to search for Error: 3409 in your SQL setup logs.
To reset the counters, perform the following steps:
Additional performance counter troubleshooting can be found in Microsoft’s documentation system.
LogicMonitor’s package for SQL Server consists of the following LogicModules. For full coverage, please ensure that all of these LogicModules are imported into your LogicMonitor platform.
When setting static datapoint thresholds on the various metrics tracked by this package, LogicMonitor follows the technology owner’s best practice KPI recommendations. If necessary, we encourage you to adjust these predefined thresholds to meet the unique needs of your environment. For more information on tuning datapoint thresholds, see Tuning Static Thresholds for Datapoints.
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