The Session Statistics report lets you view trends for sessions and network connectivity, such as transactions per minute, on a monitored SQL Server instance over a specified period of time. Check Show Tabular Data to display results in a single tabular or grid format.

Check Show Baseline to include baseline data points in the Session Statistics report. For additional information about baseline configuration, see Configure server baseline options.

When to run this report

You should run the Session Statistics report to analyze the sessions and network connectivity for a monitored instance. High logins or transactions per minute may indicate a need for increased resources.

How SQL Diagnostic Manager calculates metric values on this report

Most values on the Session Statistics report correlate with the related SQL Server metric.

However, some metric values represent averages over time. Likewise, a few metric values are based on performance algorithms that use multiple statistics to calculate a more accurate metric.

You can access our  for more information about the algorithm used to calculate a specific metric.

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