eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by MsSqlWaitTest

This test reports key statistics pertaining to wait status.

Note:

This test reports measures only for Microsoft SQL Server version 2005 and above.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Avg_wait_time Indicates the average duration of this wait type. Secs If a particular wait type is found to have persisted for a long time, it could indicate a processing overhead.
Wait_in_progress Indicates the number of processes currently waiting on this wait type. Number Closely monitoring Wait_in_progress along with Avg_wait_time over a period of time will reveal wait types that are locking critical system resources.
Waits_started_rate Indicates the number of waits started per second of this wait type. Waits/sec  
Agg_wait_time Indicates the percentage of time during the last measurement period wait events of this type occurred. Percent Compare the value of this measure across wait types to know which type of waits have occurred frequently during the last measurement period.