Documentation is now available on dbadash.com, including an easy to follow quick start guide.
See Docs/AI-Assistant.md for full setup and usage details, including Azure Foundry/Azure OpenAI configuration, running DBADashAI.dll, GUI integration settings, API endpoints, and troubleshooting.
DBA Dash is a tool for SQL Server DBAs to assist with daily checks, performance monitoring and change tracking. You can be up and running within minutes and it will provide you with a wealth of information that will make your life as a DBA easier.
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Daily DBA Checks
- Backups
- Last Good DBCC check
- Corruption
- Drive space
- Agent Jobs
- Availability Groups
- Log Shipping
- Mirroring
- Identity Columns
- Custom Checks and more
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Performance
- OS Performance Counters + Custom Metrics
- Stored Procedure/Function/Trigger execution stats
- Waits
- Memory
- Snapshot of running queries
- IO Performance
- Blocking
- Capture slow queries (Extended Event trace)
- Azure DB monitoring
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Track configuration
- sys.configuration settings
- SQL Patching
- Hardware
- Trace Flags
- Alerts
- Drivers
- TempDB and Database files
- Resource Governor
- Database options
- Query Store
- Schema changes
Track configuration across your SQL Server estate, automatically logging when changes occur
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Agent Jobs
- DDL Tracking
- Agent job timeline view
- Agent job performance monitoring
- Highlight job failures across all your SQL instances
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Option to monitor instances in isolated environments via S3 bucket.
What DBA Dash collects and when
- SQL Server 2016 SP1 or later required for DBADashDB repository database. RDS & Azure DB is supported.
- SQL 2008-SQL 2022 supported for monitored instances - including Azure and RDS (SQL Server).
- Windows machine to run agent. Agent can monitor multiple SQL instances.
- Account to use for agent. Review the security doc for required permissions.
- .NET Desktop Runtime 10 is used by DBA Dash. You will be prompted to install the .NET runtime version 10 if it's not already installed.
Note It's possible to run as a console app under your own user account for testing purposes.