The Complexity of Metrics

Monitoring your SQL Server instances is important to ensure you can meet your SLAs. Availability, performance, reliability, quality, whatever you care about, it's important that whoever is responsible is looking at how the database is performing. At Redgate, we have multiple teams working on SQL Monitor to enhance and grow it to meet your needs. A short while ago there was an internal conversation recently about page life expectancy. We've had some customers ask about this and setting alerts to watch this value. Our developers and sales engineers asked for a few thoughts from Grant and others on how to respond. There are a variety of opinions, some saying monitor it, some saying don't bother. Read the rest of The Complexity of Metrics