eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by MsSqlSessionStTest

This test monitors the sessions initiated by each application on the Microsoft SQL server, and reports the level of activity each application has imposed on the server.

The measures reported by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
No_of_Process Indicates the total number of processes executed currently by the application on the server. Number The detailed diagnosis of this measure is used to view the complete details of the session. This includes the session ID, the user who has initiated the session, the current status of the session, the elapsed time, CPU time, open cursor count,active request count,blocking/blocked request count, the count of disk reads and writes, and the count of logical reads performed by the session. These information enables you to know how resource intensive the session is and how much I/O load has been generated by the session.
Open_transaction_count Indicates the total number of transaction executed currently by the application on the server. Number In terms of a server overload, you can compare the value of this measure across the applications to identify the sessions that are responsible for increasing the transaction load on the server.
Open_cursor_count Indicates the total number of cursors executed currently by the application on the server. Number In terms of a server overload, you can compare the value of this measure across the applications to identify the sessions that are responsible for increasing the transaction load on the server.
Active_request_count Indicates the rate at which the application is sending requests to the server. Reqs/Sec  
Blocking_request_count Indicates the number of requests of this application that are currently being blocked. Number Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. If the measure reports a non-zero value, then you can use the detailed diagnosis of the Blocked processes measure of the MsSqlSysProcesses test to identify the exact query that is responsible for the blocking.
Open_resultset_count Indicates the number of resultsets that are currently open on the server for this application. Number  
Blocked_request_count Indicates the number of requests of the application that are currently blocking. Number Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. If the measure reports a non-zero value, then you can use the detailed diagnosis of the Blocked processes measure of the MsSqlSysProcesses test to identify the exact query that is responsible for the blocking.