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 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. SSRS Processor Time), and Interrupts charts. - Processing
Displays a Process Working Set (Memory Working Set Vs. SSRS Working Set) chart. - Memory
Includes the following charts: Memory Overall Usage, Available Memory, and Page Transactions.
- Disk
Report Server Performance
This category contains the following SSRS Server related performance metrics:
- Connections
Displays charts for Active Connections and Logons (Attempts vs. Successes). - Network
Includes Bytes Transferred (Received vs. Sent) and HTTP Errors charts. - Memory
Displays charts for Memory Pressure State, Memory Shrink Amount, and Memory Shrink Notifications. Requests
Includes charts for Request Activity (Disconnected Requests vs. Executing Requests), Unauthorized Requests, Requests Rejected, Request Volume, and Tasks Queued.
- Connections
Reporting Services
This category includes the following metrics for the SSRS Windows and Web Service:
- Sessions
Displays Active Sessions (Windows Sessions vs. Web Sessions), First Session Requests (Windows Sessions vs. Web Sessions), and Next Session Requests (Windows Sessions vs. Web Sessions) charts. - Cache
Contains charts for Cache Hits (Windows Cache Hits vs. Web Cache Hits), Cache Misses (Windows Cache Misses vs. Web Cache Misses), Memory Cache Hits (Windows Cache Hits vs. Web Cache Hits), Memory Cache Misses (Windows Cache Misses vs. Web Cache Misses), and Cache Flushes(Windows vs. Web). - Requests
Includes the following charts: Report Requests (Windows Requests vs. Web Requests), Reports Executed (Windows Reports vs. Web Reports), Service Requests (Windows Requests vs. Web Requests), Processing Failures (Windows Failures vs. Web Failures), and Rejected Threads (Windows Threads vs. Web Threads).
- Sessions
Reporting Activity
This category includes the following metrics:
- Report Execution
Displays a list containing the history of Reports that have been executed in the BI environment. The list includes the following information:- Report Path
- Parameters
- User
- Report Type
- Status
- Format
- Start Time
- End Time
- Data Retrieval
- Rendering
- Processing
- Report Performance
Displays charts for: Total Processing Time, Total Rendering Time, and Total Data Retrieval Time from a specified time frame and scale. You can export the charts to an XLS or CSV file, download them as PNG, JPEG, PDF, or SVG individual files or print them individually.
- Report Execution
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.
You can modify the time frame for the information and the scale (minute, hour, day, week, or month) used in the charts and export the views to a XLS or XML file. You can also print a specific chart or download it as a PNG, JPEG, PDF, or SVG file.