SQL Sentry Portal Storage

Storage

The Storage view provides details about the disk space and disk activity in your monitored environment. Use the Storage tab to view details about your monitored environment storage by disk, including capacity, free space, databases, disk activity, etc.

View data about your monitored environment's disk activity and disk space. Selecting a link from the table on the left populates details for your selection on the right in the Details and Trends tabs. 

Overview Chart

The Overview chart displays storage capacity information for your monitored environment. 

Note:  You can use the icon to expand information for a selected disk and the icon to minimize information for a selected disk.

Details

The Details tab displays recorded storage metrics and any storage activity for your monitored environment. The details tab is divided into Capacity and Activity Metrics sections that display real-time data or a selected range of data.

Capacity Metrics

Activity Metrics

Trends

The Trends tab displays Latency, IOPS, and MB/sec graphs for your selected storage unit. 

Select a spike on a trends graph to display detailed read and write tooltips for your selection.

View storage trends historically for your selection. Select the calendar, and then select the desired Range, Days, Weeks, or Months that you want to display. Select Apply to update the trends graphs based on your selection.

Historical Data example

Live Data example

Select a graph metric to remove that data from the graph. 

Select metric

Metric removed from graph

Select a Disk Volume to display a disk space forecast for the selection.

Warnings

SQL Sentry Portal tracks multiple warnings types across the storage entities in your monitored environment. Warnings display as redicons and are visible on the Overview chart. Select a storage entity with a warning icon to display more information about the warning in the Details tab.

Important:  Warnings in your monitored environment display hierarchically. For example, if you select your Controller, the Details tab will display all of the warnings in your environment. If you select an individual disk, the Details tab will display the warnings associated to the selected disk.

Select the on the column bar to sort by warnings.

Select a Storage Warning link to be redirected to the selection.

Select the desired warning link

Storage Warning selection

SQL Sentry Portal will notify you if your environment encounters any of the following warnings: