Unofficial Spiceworks

We have heard from Spiceworks that a SQL Server monitoring plugin will be out within a week!

There were talks started back in September about on the community here but we didn’t believe it would happen.

We currently have no idea what it will look like but so fair it appears it will include information like

1. Graphs of the server performance over time, things like the transactions per second, IO reads/writes per second, number of active transactions.
2. The current metrics, so you can see close to real time what’s going on, from disk space to long running transactions.
3. Static information like database names, host name, ip, version.

Could this be something Spiceworks have partner with Microsoft with?

I’m definitely going to be trying it out here. Just hope it supports the three main versions of SQL being used not just 2008.

This plugin will be something special, alot of SQL monitoring tools are very expensive. This will definitely bring Spiceworks even closer to being “everything IT”

When we hear more well keep you up-to-date