MS SQL Server Monitoring
XorMon gets data through SQL protocol.
XorMon requires a database user (typically "xormon") with the VIEW SERVER STATE permissions to collect monitoring data
Collected Metrics
Subsystem
Metric
SQL Server instance
Database
Health status
Health status
yes
DB TOP
IOPS
yes
DATA in MB
yes
User Connections
yes
Configuration
Main
yes
Memory
Memory
yes
Buffers
Buffer
yes
Readahead
yes
Page R/W
yes
Pages
yes
Sessions
Sessions
yes
Latches
IO
yes
Buffer
yes
Non Buffer
yes
Wait events
Events
yes
Capacity
Size
yes
Relations
yes
Filegroups
yes
IO
Total
yes
Read/Write
yes
Data
Total
yes
Read/Write
yes
Latency
Total
yes
Read/Write
yes
Locks
Locks
yes
Deadlocks
yes
SQL Querty
Transactions
yes
Cursors
yes
Ratio
Cache hit
yes
Buffer Cache hit
yes
Log Cache hit
yes
Last updated: 2026-05-04