SQL Agent Insights:Documentation:Insight Configuration

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Configuration of an Insight

General

The Insight configuration showing the options on the General tab.

Polling Interval

• The frequency at which data will be refreshed from the SQL instance.

Recent Timeframe

• The number of days prior to today when gathering recent metrics.

Log Running Jobs

• List running jobs to the Insight log once every polling interval. This must be enabled for long running job notifications.

Verify SQL Instance Connectivity

• Each Insight does a background check to see if the monitored instance is still available. This setting allows the Insight to check every 10, 30, or 60 seconds. Optionally toggling this off does not check for connectivity.
• It is suggested to leave this on if you are actively doing actions with your SQL agent which can alert you ahead of time of any errors.

Log Heartbeat Messages

• Toggles the ability to log heartbeat messages to the Insight log. Disabling this option can reduce the amount written to the Insight log.

Long Running Job Interval

• The number of seconds that need to elapse before a job is classified as long running for notification purposes.
• It is recommended to have an overall Insight polling interval less than this value so that long running jobs will be captured appropriately to the Insight log.

Extended Pause Notification Interval

The frequency at which paused notifications are logged and or emailed.

Notifications

The Insight configuration showing the options on the Notifications tab.

Enable Email Notifications

• This must be toggled on for long running job notifications.

Attention: Global email notifications must be enabled in Preferences.

Category Polling

The Insight configuration showing the options on the Category Polling tab.

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