Configure Microsoft SQL Server monitoring with OpenTelemetry Collector (CNCF)

The Overview page displays a high-level view of your Microsoft SQL Server instance, including key metrics such as database count, I/O, latency, operations, tempdb space, deadlock rate, and more.

To populate data for the Overview page in the New Relic platform, add the following configuration to your otelcol-contrib configuration file:

receivers:
    sqlserver:

        # Enable comprehensive database metrics
      metrics:
        sqlserver.database.count:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.database.io:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.database.latency:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.database.operations:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.database.tempdb.space:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.database.tempdb.version_store.size:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.deadlock.rate:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.os.wait.duration:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.processes.blocked:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.memory.grants.pending.count:
          enabled: true
        sqlserver.memory.area:
          enabled: true

You can populate data for the following pages in the New Relic platform:

• Query performance: Displays detailed information about the queries running on your Microsoft SQL Server instance in the following tabs:
  • Normalized queries: Displays the execution and average CPU time graphs.
  • Query samples: Displays individual query executions including start time, duration, wait type, wait time, database, DB user, and client host.
  • Stored procedures: Displays performance metrics for the top stored procedures.
• Wait events: Displays information about the wait events occurring on your Microsoft SQL Server instance. The Query samples view shows queries currently waiting along with their wait type and wait time.
• Sessions: Displays information about the sessions connected to your Microsoft SQL Server instance, including session counts, session states, avg active session duration, blocked sessions, and individual session details.
• Clients: Displays information about the clients connected to your Microsoft SQL Server instance, including active sessions, blocked sessions, connected DB users, and client host details.
• Stored procedures: Displays performance metrics for the top stored procedures.

To populate data in these pages, add the following configuration to your otelcol-contrib configuration file:

receivers:
    sqlserver:

        events:
            db.server.query_sample:
                enabled: true
            db.server.top_query:
                enabled: true
            db.server.query_plan:
                enabled: true
            db.server.top_procedure:
                enabled: true

        # Top query collection configuration
        top_query_collection:
            lookback_time: 60s
            max_query_sample_count: 1000
            top_query_count: 250
            collection_interval: 60s

        # Query sample collection configuration
        query_sample_collection:
            max_rows_per_query: 100

        # Top stored procedure collection configuration
        top_procedure_collection:
            max_procedure_sample_count: 1000
            top_procedure_count: 250
            collection_interval: 60s

The All waits view shows instance-level wait time broken down by wait category and individual wait type.

To enable All waits in the New Relic platform Wait event tab, add the following configuration to your otelcol-contrib configuration file:

receivers:
    sqlserver:

        metrics:
            sqlserver.os.wait.duration:
                enabled: true