SSRS metrics

SQL BI Manager monitors several type of metrics to provide accurate information about the status and health of the Reporting Services and the instances hosting these services on a BI environment. The metrics are classified in the following categories:

Server Performance

This category contains the following server related performance metrics:

• • Disk
    Includes the following charts: Disk transactions, Average Seconds per Transaction, Current Disk Queue Length, and Percent Idle Time.
  • Network
    Includes Data Transfer (bytes/sec) and Network Output Queue Length charts.
  • Cache
    Includes Cache Copy Read Hits Percent, Cache Copy Reads per Second, and Memory Cache charts.
  • CPU
    Displays CPU Thread Switching, Percent Process Time, Percent Processor Time, and Interrupts per Second charts.
  • Processing
    Displays a Process Working Set (Memory Working Set Vs. SSAS Working Set) chart.
  • Memory
    Includes the following charts: Memory Overall Usage, Available Memory, and Page Transactions.

Report Server Performance

This category contains the following SSRS related performance metrics:

• • Connections
    Displays charts for Active Connections and Logons,
  • Network
    Includes Bytes Transferred and HTTP Errors charts.
  • Memory
    Displays charts for Memory Pressure State, Memory Shrink Amount, and Memory Shrink Notifications.

  • Requests
    Includes charts for Request Activity, Unauthorized Requests, Requests Rejected, Request Volume, and Tasks Queued.

Reporting Services

This category includes the following metrics:

• • Sessions
    Displays Active Sessions, First Session Requests, and Next Session Requests charts.
  • Cache
    Contains charts for Cache Hits, Cache Misses, Memory Cache Hits, Memory Cache Misses, and Cache Flushes.
  • Requests
    Includes the following charts: Report Requests, Reports Executed, Service Requests, Processing Failures, and Rejected Threads.

Reporting Activity

This category includes the following metrics:

• • Report Execution
    Displays a list containing information about Reporting Activities within the BI environment. The list can be exported to a PDF, XLS, or XML file.
  • Report Performance
    Displays charts for Total Processing Time, Total Rendering Time, and Total Data Retrieval Time.

User Activity

This category displays a list of all Users' activities within the BI environment. The list includes the following information:

• • User name
  • Sessions
  • I/O Activity
  • Total Processing Time(in ms)
  • Average Processing Time(in ms)
  • Longest Running Report

Click the User name to display the Sessions category list with more detailed information about all sessions performed by the user. You can also export the contents of the list to a PDF, XLS, or XML file.

 

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