The Disk Statistics report lets you view trends for the disk activity of a monitored SQL Server instance over a specified period of time. To successfully monitor OS metrics, make sure that you enable WMI or OLE automation on the monitored instance. Check Check Show Tabular Data to display display results in a single tabular or grid format .Check and check Show Baseline to include include baseline data points in the Disk Statistics report. For additional information about baseline configuration, see Configure server baseline options.
This report generates the following graphs: IO Activity %, Work Files Per Minute, Tempdb Size (MB), Page Reads Per Second, Page Writes Per Second, Page Splits Per Minute, Page Lookups Per Minute, % Disk Busy, and Disk Queue Length.
When to run this report
You should run the Disk Statistics report to analyze the disk activity such as work files per minute or page read/writes per second.
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