Questions tagged [extended-events]
SQL Server Extended Events (Extended Events) is a general event-handling system for server systems.
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What is the best way to audit database in azure SQL managed instace? [on hold]
I have a requirement to audit Azure SQL managed instace db. I need to log all logins, time of login and queries fired by the user. What is the best practice to get this done?
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Trying to trace error in Stored Procedure using XEvents
Here is the situation:
I have a SQL server ETL application with a stored procedure that is inserting/updating some data into a table. The table has 1 INT column (it is an identity column and there ...
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Read all Captured Extended Events for a Given Extended Event Session Name
I want to be able to read all XE files for a dynamic XE session name. My XE session stores files to disk.
I have the query below
DECLARE @XeName SYSNAME = 'MyXE'
DECLARE @Path NVARCHAR(255)
SELECT @...
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Trying to identify what process is making a connection to a specific DB in SQL Server
I am attempting to track down... something... that is making a connection to a specific database without (apparently) doing anything with the connection. However, so far I have had no luck.
The data ...
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Can Extended Events used instead of Auditing?
In BOL it is mentioned
does this mean Extended Events can capture all the events that are traced by auditing? Can we get all the functionalities of auditing just by using XEvents?
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How to convert Extended Event action mdmget_TimeStampUTC to datetime?
SQL Server Extended Events can include an action of mdmtargetpkg.mdmget_TimeStampUTC. It returns a value such as 132085458320550473. How can that be converted to an actual date?
It doesn't appear to ...
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Way to find when system health file is rolling over
Is there a way to find the events when system health extended event files are rolling over rather than manually monitoring for the events?
For my medium load server they stay upto 2-3 days. But for ...
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What is the proper event in Extended Events to track stored procedure executions?
My goal is to track executions of a single stored procedure using Extended Events
In the event selection list, I can find following:
sql_statement_completed
sql_batch_completed
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How to know the size of data returned from a select statement using extended event in azure sql MI?
When a select statement is issued I would like to know the the query issued by the user and the number of rows returned along with the bytes/MB of data returned using extended events.
With event ...
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SQL Extended Events Session for deadlock detection
Is there a way to increase the size of the <inputbuf> element in the deadlock XML captured by the deadlock extended events session?
We want to see the complete query to help pinpoint the issue ...
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Why execution plan could be skipped from XE session?
Got an issue, similar to this one: Why does SQL Server Profiler trace not capture SELECT operator in execution plans?. There was an advice to use XE instead of Trace, but it does not help.
Thing is, ...
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Resources used by ExtendedEvents
Does anyone know how to tell how many resources (CPU/MEM/Reads etc) have been used by SQL Server Extended Events?
I've went through the available DMVs here
But I dont see where this is tracked ...
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Need Help in extended events SQL Server
I have created an extended event as below. I want to know how to query the historical data using T-SQL to see the issues at particular timestamps. The trace is running as of now
CREATE EVENT SESSION [...
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Incorrect process utilization from System health extended events?
I have been recently working on understanding the data or metrics being stored in system health extended events event file.
We are trying to implement the data collection of performance metrics using ...
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File growth and location change for system health extended events
I am continuing the questions over system health extended event from my previous question How are the system health extended events files rolling over?
I see system health file location by default ...
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How are the system health extended events files rolling over?
I see the default system health session events within SQL Server are 5 MB each with 4 files in total.
We are trying to fetch data from the system health in historical events but for some critical ...
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SQL Server 2016 still uses mixed_extent_allocation in TempDB
Today I was troubleshooting a problem on TempDB on SQL Server 2016 SP2 using extended events and added the mixed_extent_allocation and transaction_log event to my trace.
I expected ...
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Centralized Logs (error, deadlocks, slow queries) For SQL Servers
I want to establish a centralized log for many SQL Servers, similar to the products Graylog or elk stack.
What is the best and performant way to send these kind of logs to a log collector?
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Capture Extended Events Histogram only during time window
We have a problematic time window during night on the weekends. I want to set up multiple Extended Events sessions to capture some data and get insight.
Most of them will target a file, which I can ...
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How to view xEvent event_file data
I have a small xEvent that is sending the results as .xel to an event_file in G:\XEvents and I want to explore the data with SSMS. I have been looking for a solution and found several posts about ...
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Authoritative Extend Event object list?
I am looking for an authoritative list of objects for extended events, I want to know what version an object becomes available and some clues about what the value really represents. I have googled ...
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Difference between sqlserver.nt_username & sqlserver.username
I am just learning about SQL Extended Events.
I have a small event and for actions I have selected both sqlserver.nt_username & sqlserver.username
When I test connect with a NT account the ...
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What does it means when you have “sql_exit_invoked” in System Health?
I'm having problems with one of my SQL Server 2016 Standard servers. I have 8 production servers and this one is the only one who crashes randomly without having any trace in the log.
I have ...
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database_xml_deadlock_report or xml_deadlock_report
Is [database_xml_deadlock_report] the same as [xml_deadlock_report] just with extra fields?
I'm creating a basic deadlock and blocking capture and see both. Most examples online show [...
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Why does a query on a local instance with local database files cause NETWORK_IO waits?
I have followed this tutorial to get the wait stats of a particular query while it is 'in flight' using extended events. Whilst the tutorial refers to an index rebuild, I just did a select statement ...
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How to index of filter extended event files in Sql Server
I am collecting errors data using the error_reported event and saving the data on XEL files. The problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of errors over there and querying them can take a lot ...
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how to add an extended events tracking session to SSAS?
I would prefer to have a script to achieve this, but as I am not so familiar with SSAS I am using the wizard to create an extended events session in SSAS.
The way I am doing it is right clicking on ...
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Extended Event Session Keeps Stopping
A few months ago I added an extended event to track blocked processes and deadlocks, with a file output to track occurrences.
Every now and again, I check the log file, but find that the extended ...
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SQL Query logging in extended events deadlock xml report is too short
How can I tell the sql server to log the whole query in the xml, and not truncate it?
example:
<inputbuf>
(@0 nvarchar(20),@1 nvarchar(10),@2 decimal(38,20),@3 int,@4 datetime,@5 nvarchar(...
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Precision for average_disk_seconds_per_read?
In SQL Server Extended Events, event = perfobject_logicaldisk, what is the actual unit of time for average_disk_seconds_per_read and average_disk_seconds_per_write?
All of the documentation I've ...
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Testing Data Compression
We have a 1TB table that gets queried a lot. I have suggested we use Data Compression to save on space as well as help put more in memory. Because of the concern of CPU overhead, I have been tasked ...
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RID and Key lock on same object by a Select and Delete query
To be specific how did the select query (spid 128, on the left) is able to acquire a S (shared) lock on Index but not on the row?
Also, how did Delete query (SPID 121, on the right) is able to get X ...
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How do I access ETW Traces on SQL Server for linux?
I have SQL Server running in a docker image. I have an extended event session running on it. I can connect to it fine and view live data with SSMS. I can use T-SQL to view the histogram target. If ...
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SQL Server Trace Stopped Messages Displaying Random Login Name
When traces are started and stopped we get messages similar to the following in the SQL Server error log:
SQL Trace ID 2 was started by login "DOMAIN\loginA".
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SQL Trace stopped. Trace ID = ...
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Cost / Capacity Planning: Quantify Data Ingress / Egress
To evaluate the migration of an on-prem SQL Server to a cloud-hosted VM, I want two fundamental pieces of information:
The list of clients that access the on-prem DB Server. I'd like to know: client ...
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How to interpret AlwaysOn event hadr_db_partner_set_sync_state
We have a program that listens to the SQL Server AlwaysOn_health event session
for state changes. When we simulate a secondary server going offline or online, we get the ...
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What is the right tool to process big .xel files (SQL Server Extended Events logs)?
My aim is to audit all queries on an instance, who's running them and from where, how many reads, in order to consolidate/migrate on another instance.
Figured out the best way is via Extended Events ...
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Explanation of Extended Events xml
I queried an Extended Events session and returned the XML. I am confused on what frame level 1, 2, 3 mean. As well as line, offsetStart and offsetEnd?
I am however able to convert the sql handle to ...
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Query plan do not get invalidated after update statistics
I'm running some tests to find out when query plans get invalidated after an update statistics. The machine I'm using for testing is a SQL Server Developer 2016 SP1 CU7.
I found an article on ...
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Determine which SQL drivers an application uses to connect to SQL server
I want to find out what SQL driver a third-party application (or any application for that matter) uses to connect to a SQL Server instance in production. It can be tough to get a fast answer from a ...
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Extended Event Reported Error Login Timeout
While poking around for a specific event I found myself discovering an error happening every second.
At the moment I cannot find any more information about the error as it only gets displayed in the ...
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Extended Events: Specify Session Data Storage left blank
What happens if the Data Storage is never configured?
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SQL 2008/R2 Extended Events - Row Count
I need to setup a sql audit to capture all queries running on a server from any unauthorized locations, and one of the columns that is required is Row Count.
In sql trace, this is possible. But I can'...
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Is there a service broker target for an extended event session
We use Service Broker heavily for asynchronous background processing.
Additionally we want to use it for extended event processing.
Is it possible to use Service Broker listener as target for an ...
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Extended Events replacement for Virtual file stats
Is there a way to monitor virtual filestats data with Extended Events, instead of doing (select * from sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats) in SSMS?
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Track all changes to table with Extended Event Session
I am using the sql_statement_completed Event in SQL Server 2016 to track all SQL executed on a certain table. I have a Filter on sqlserver.sql_text like %tablename%.
This captures any SQL I execute ...
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StartTime and EndTime for the Attention Extended Event
The documentation says that the "Attention" extended event class has StartTime and EndTime as part of it.
But I can't seem to figure out how to get at it or record it...
Here is what I am using to ...
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When using XE Profiler in SSMS 17.3, the 'Database Name' column shows as either NULL or an empty string
I'm just starting to use SSMS 17.3 - and one of the main things I was looking forward to trialing was XE Profiler.
However, when you start a session (either Standard or TSQ) and add the Database Name ...
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Extended Events session file truncated on server restart
I have created an extended events session to capture login and logout information. The session is setup to store events to a file.
I understood that one of the advantages of using an event file (...
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Monitoring deadlocks in SQL Server 2014
We are experiencing deadlocks on SQL Server 2014 and I am trying to capture as much information about them as I can.
There is already Extended Events Session that captures xml_deadlock_report events ...
