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Recently I found in the sp_Blitz output new finding 'Overall Events' in 'DBCC Events' findings group:

15278 DBCC events have taken place between Aug  8 2017 12:15AM and Aug  8 2017  8:17AM. This does not include CHECKDB and other usually benign DBCC events.

When I digged into this and checked the default trace, I found that every minute it records entries like this:

dbcc incrementinstance ("SQL Replication Distribution", "Dist:Delivered Cmds/sec", @agent_name, @new_delivered_commands)
dbcc setinstance ("SQL Replication Distribution", "Dist:Delivery Latency", @agent_name, @delivery_latency)
dbcc addinstance ("SQL Replication Logreader", @agent_name)

It's plainly visible this is replication related, but since these commands are undocumented I am not sure whether they should come up in the trace. However, basing purely on the output it just measures the amount of commands per seconds plus the latency. I think this is nothing harmful.

So if you could possibly check your servers where you run the replication and confirm if you have these entries and the frequency is more-less the same?

The separate question is if it's normal to see such commands (and I guess it is) in the default trace, perhaps it shouldn't be considered as a finding by sp_Blitz and it should be grouped with other harmless DBCC commands already excluded in sp_Blitz.

We use Sentry One to monitor SQL Server, but I don't think it's monitoring replication. I think it might be something internal. There are some default alerts defined when you deploy replication (SQL Agent -> Alerts, for example: Replication Warning: Transactional replication latency (Threshold: latency)) It is basing on SQL Server error log, but the entry in the error log has to be initially triggered by something.

I have opened an issue on Github to cover this.

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Brent has just replied on Github it is going to be excluded from the alerts.

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