SSIS Metrics

SQL BI Manager monitors several type of metrics to provide accurate information about the status and health of the Integration 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 Cache Faults charts.
  • CPU
    Displays CPU Thread Switching (threads waiting vs. thread switches), Percent Process Time (Percent Privileged Time vs. Percent User Time), Percent Processor Time (Processor Time vs. SSAS Processor Time), andInterrupts 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.

SSIS Activity

This category displays a list of all Package Executions related to the Integration Services instance with drill down capabilities. The list includes the following information:

• • Server
  • User
  • Package ID
  • Package Name
  • Status
  • Package Start
  • Package End
  • Duration
  • Error Count
  • First Error Message
  • Configuration Message

You can click the Package Name to populate the Package Details list below, which contains the following information:

• • Execution ID
  • Folder Name
  • Environment Name
  • Project Name
  • Step Name
  • Execution Duration
  • Start Time
  • End Time
  • Step Result

If you click the Step Name, BI Manager displays additional information for the task, organized in a list with the following columns:

• • Operation ID
  • Message TIme
  • Message Type
  • Message
  • Event Name
  • Package Step

The items displayed in the Package Execution list can also be filtered by Package Name, Status, and User. 

 

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