Do you have important databases you need to monitor? Or do you have a number of test databases you want to monitor without breaking the bank?

Let me help you.

Zabbix is a free, open source tool mainly used for monitoring infrastructure (servers, networks etc). Most infra-admins know the tool and chances are they're using it in your organisation. But when you look at the documentation, it doesn't say much about monitoring databases. Yet the tool can do this without much additional configuration or plug-ins.

In this session I'll take along on my journey from using Zabbix as an infra monitoring tool to a SQL monitoring tool. We'll start with the basics of monitoring and what to monitor. After that we'll dive a bit deeper and add a specific monitoring for SQL Server Wait Statistics. This concept can be applied to many, if not all, other areas of intere

Check out this session and you'll walk away with some news for your infrastructure friends in your organisation. And because we all love automation I'll provide you with some scripts that make it much easier for you to start building your own specific monitoring.