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Note

Be sure to review a list of the default alert IDs, their descriptions, and associated events before configuring your alerts.

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In addition to setting the thresholds for specific alerts, you can customize your alerts by adding comments to each alert, and customize the alert rank based on the users environment and preferences . Comments allow you to include instructions to users when a level reaches a particular threshold or to provide additional information about the alert. You can also customize the levels at which SQL Diagnostic Manager provides alert notifications by changing the informational, warning, and critical values either on the Configuration tab of the Alert Configuration window or, for database- and disk-level alerts, on the Database Threshold Configuration window available by selecting the database or disk.

Also, you can base your alerts on the past performance of the metrics collected by SQL Diagnostic Manager. This is a powerful and effective way to make sure that the alerts you receive are outside of your typical metric ranges.

Tip

For each alert metric, you can enter the specific criteria by double-clicking the values on the Configuration tab.

You can add or import custom metrics to your alert configuration by using the Add Custom Counter wizard or the Import Custom Counter Wizard on the Administration window. This dialog allows you to use custom counters to track metrics that SQL Diagnostic Manager begins to monitor. You can select metrics in PerfMon, SQL Server, and even metrics monitored via custom T-SQL script.

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SQL Diagnostic Manager includes the ability to apply some alert thresholds on a per-database or per-disk basis within an instance. When you create an alert template and include one of these alerts, you cannot select which database or disk to apply the alert to because that is unknown in a template. For that reason, these alerts apply to all databases and disks within the instance to which it is applied. For additional information, see Configure database thresholds or Configure disk thresholds.

About informational alerts

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