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CPU signal wait time

This metric measures the percentage of time spent waiting for CPU resources to service a thread. A high signal wait time for all wait types may indicate that CPUs are being overused, forcing tasks to...

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Average runnable task count

This metric gives an idea of how many tasks are in a runnable state and trying to execute in the system concurrently. Sustained values for the runnable_tasks_count column are usually a very good...

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OS Wait Time: Async_Network_IO

This metric gives you an indication of how much time is spent waiting to send information over a network. High values may indicate slow network performance, but may also indicate that clients are not...

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OS Wait Time: CXPACKET

CXPACKET waits may or may not be an issue for a system, but on an OLTP style system, they can indicate costly queries that are executing and requiring parallelized plans. An alert is not defined,...

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Database state

This metric tells you whether a database is online, restoring, recovering, recovery pending, suspect, emergency, offline or does not exist on the server. It is a matter for concern if the database is...

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