SSRS monitoring

Load testing for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

September 25, 2018 by Esat Erkec

Performance monitoring is a very significant and essential topic for database or system administrators. This is no different with SSRS load testing. In some cases, performance problems can lead to significant system downtime. Most of the time in the background of the problem is having insufficient resources or improper settings. Therefore, before experiencing performance issues, we have to take some time to review preventive measures related to current system configurations or new installations. The load test (or stress test) is the most commonly used approach to tune systems before real-life staging conditions. Now we will discuss the details of load test, and in particular SSRS load testing.

SSRS ReportServer: Service performance counters guide

July 27, 2016 by Daniel Tikvicki

SSRS performance counters

Measurements of the Reporting Services service (SSRS) monitoring cycle show which resources the reporting process consumes, and also, specific sets of counters show the particular type of the reporting process deployment in use, Native and SharePoint mode. The entire reports processing occurs in the Report Server, which is the core element of SSRS architecture, and among all features, collaboration with SharePoint platform is the most crucial, because of advantages of report processing and generating reports for SharePoint components.

Monitoring SQL Server Reporting Services

February 19, 2015 by Steve Simon

Introduction

In our last get together I mentioned that oft times SQL Server reports are created due to a dire business need to be used once and never again. Further, some reports that we believe are not often used could be “top of the pops” unbeknown to us. A guess as to a number of times a report is used per month, in addition to the statistics behind each report should not be guesswork, but rather monitored actively to ensure that frequently used reports are both efficient and effective. Further, those reports that are either not used or have not been run in quite some time, should perhaps be removed in order to keep the server clean and not cluttered.

Quick and dirty server monitoring with SQL Server Reporting Services

October 8, 2014 by Steve Simon

Introduction

A few month back, I found myself in a position where the client wanted a ‘monitoring tool’ to utilize on a daily basis to ascertain the status of SQL Server Systems and to continually monitor disk space capacity. Being a typical Monday morning quarter back and utilizing my favorite SQL Server Tool, SQL Server Reporting Services, I came up with the following ‘ah-ha’ solution. Read more »