The VM Memory Usage (Percent) alert provides the percentage of available memory used by the virtual machine hosting the monitored SQL Server. This result may vary from the memory usage percentage reported by the guest operating system. This alert is disabled by default and is available only on instances hosted on virtual machines that are enabled for VM monitoring.

Reduce the percentage of memory used by SQL Server

If this value is regularly over 80%, SQL Server needs more memory or needs to use the memory it has more efficiently. Consider implementing one or more of the following solutions:


SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server performance monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics for SQL Server.
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