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Security considerations for deploying SQLWATCH in production

Originally posted on February 3rd, 2020I get a lot of emails with concerns that some of you have very strict security and locked-down environments which prevent you from installing SQLWATCH. At the same time, some of you would have preferred the central repository to connect directly to the remote instance and pull data out of it. Let’s discuss this problem. Architectural principles I have designed it with disparate environments in mind to address a couple of problems that other monitoring solutions introduce. Decentralised It means that, by design, it works in complete isolation, in disparate environments, demilitarized zones (DMZ), in

Marcin Gminski 24th March 2020 No Comments

The impact of aggregation on data granularity and the observability

Originally posted on January 26th, 2020I recently came across a tweet by Brent Ozar who touched on a very important aspect of performance monitoring. A subject that is not always well understood and can lead to misleading results. The impact of aggregation on granularity and thus observability. Brent’s tweet inspired me to try and explain the matter in more than 160 characters. I will also touch on how SQLWATCH tries to deal with this problem. I have already blogged about time intervals and the impact on observability back in 2018. However, I did not go into details: What is data

Marcin Gminski 17th March 2020 3 Comments

SQLWATCH needs your help #SQLFamily

Originally posted on January 24th, 2020Hey SQLWatchers, First of all, thank you for the growing community and for using SQLWATCH. As of January 2020, SQLWATCH is about hit over 7700 GitHub Release downloads. This does not include source code downloads and offline installations. I am myself aware of many places that download the release or source code once and deploy to their servers. The total instances monitored by SQLWATCH is exceeding well over 10000. Thank you! The more users we have the better the product will become. Bugs Firstly, I would like to ask you to keep raising bugs and

Marcin Gminski 10th March 2020 No Comments

Deploy SQLWATCH with dbatools

Originally posted on February 12th, 2019I am happy to announce that thanks to our fantastic SQL Server Community it is now possible to deploy SQLWATCH using dbatools. If you work with SQL Server and are not familiar with dbatools you should check it out now, it will change your DBA life forever. With dbatools we can now streamline deployments and updates of SQLWATCH across the entire SQL Server estate in a matter of minutes. Installation Watch the below example: Update Behind the scenes, the deployment is done using dacpac and operates on the desired state configuration approach which means it will

Marcin Gminski 3rd March 2020 No Comments

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Security considerations for deploying SQLWATCH in production

The impact of aggregation on data granularity and the observability

SQLWATCH needs your help #SQLFamily

Deploy SQLWATCH with dbatools

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