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 name	Description	Statistic	Unit
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

Go to the Admin section in the left navigation pane.
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.
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

Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure SQL Elastic Pools from the drop-down menu.
Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold, then click the hamburger icon . Select Edit, which will direct you to the Edit Azure SQL Elastic Pools Monitor page.
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