A typical Job Monitor window showing all major sections.

The Job Monitor is the primary location for doing the most common actions in SQL Agent Insight. Job Monitor will display all of the jobs being monitored for the particular instance of SQL Server® and provides a vast number of actions that can be performed on a job or a set of jobs. Some of this functionality is unique to SQL Agent Insight and does not reside in the SQL Server® Management Studio (SSMS). More on that later.

Dissecting the Job Monitor Window

Navigating around the Job Monitor window, like the remainder of SQL Agent Insight is intuitive. From the image at the right, we have the following major areas.

Tool / Action Bar

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The toolbar within the Job Monitor window.

Expand/collapse filters pane

Shows / hides the filter pane. When the filter pane is collapsed and there are no filters selected, the icon will appear as an empty filter. Conversely, should there be at least one filter selected, the icon, when collapsed, will be solid in color. When the filter pane is expanded, the icon shown is a left arrow.

Clear selected filter(s)

Clears all filters on all columns with a single click.

Clear any/all groupings

Removes all columns put into the column header group drop area with a single click.

Size all columns to fit

Show suspended/paused jobs

Filter Pane

Job Listings Pane

Column Header Group Drop Area

Row Headers

Column Headers

Auto Refresh Toggle

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