Datadog SQL Server Performance Monitoring | Datadog

Optimize SQL Server Performance

Easily identify slow-running queries in seconds and visualize everything in one place with Datadog. Combine SQL Server monitoring tools with distributed tracing and log management by Datadog to get end-to-end visibility into the health of your databases.

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Product Benefits

Diagnose Issues and Optimize Query Performance Faster

  • Easily identify slow-running SQL queries, bottlenecks, error rates, and more with end-to-end application tracing, full latency breakdowns, and stack traces
  • Collect query throughput, query execution performance, connections, buffer pool usage metrics and more
  • Get granular insight into query activity with automatically sampled queries
  • Analyze slow query logs quickly with an intuitive logging platform and auto-pattern recognitions
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Improve SQL Server Stored Procedures

  • Reduce network traffic and execution latency by creating stored procedures around frequently repeated database operations
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks hampering your applications’ response times with insights into your stored procedures and normalized query data
  • Identify the queries and procedures contributing the most to database load and potentially slowing down your applications
  • Monitor Tempdb with DBM and identify long-running transactions that are consuming excessive space
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Identify Latch Contention and Deadlocks

  • Discover and resolve bottlenecks and recurring deadlock errors; easily monitor wait times, frequency of latch contention jobs, and more
  • Pinpoint latch contention issues quickly with visibility into the average wait times of latches and the number of latch contentions per second
  • Prevent server load increases and lengthy response times with dashboards that help you identify the number of deadlocks occurring per second in your SQL Server instance
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Correlate Query Metrics With Database and Infrastructure Metrics

  • Diagnose root causes faster and see anomalous behavior across all your systems by correlating SQL Server metrics and the rest of your stack
  • View query-level and host-level metrics together to better understand how resource constraints affect database performance
  • Gain critical insights into your system with distributed traces and logs in real time for quick troubleshooting
  • Seamlessly pivot from execution plans to related metrics to surface and resolve costly database inefficiencies

Enhance App Reliability & Collaboration Across Teams

  • Monitor all your databases, cloud services, containers, and serverless functions in one place with Datadog’s 700+ vendor-backed integrations
  • Expand your team’s access to query metrics without providing explicit database access to every user
  • Keep sensitive data secure with automatic obfuscation of PII in execution plans and query metrics
  • Scale DBM usage with your needs and manage a large number of databases securely

Receive Alerts Only for the Issues that Matter and Eliminate False-Positives

  • Set up recommended alerts with 1 click for anomalies and outliers that account for daily, weekly, and seasonal fluctuations
  • Proactively prevent outages and errors in the future by alerting on metric forecasts
  • Combine alerts into composite alerts for greater granularity and stronger signal to reduce the noise
  • Automatically detect unanticipated outliers, anomalies, and errors with Watchdog
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Monitoring That's Simple to Deploy and Effortless to Manage

  • Track tens of thousands of infrastructure metrics out-of-the-box
  • Deploy and start monitoring without any need for professional services or extensive training
  • Promote adoption across your organization with our intuitive user interface that requires no query language and can be used by anyone

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The Essential Monitoring and Security Platform for the Cloud Age

Datadog brings together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable.

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