What SQL Server Alerts do you always setup for every database? What do you always monitor regardless of the database?
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What SQL Server Alerts do you always setup for every database? What do you always monitor regardless of the database?
You should monitor and be alerted for severity levels 17 to 25.
Severity levels from 17 through 19 will require intervention from a DBA, they’re not as serious as 20-25 but the DBA needs to be alerted.
17 Insufficient Resources
18 Nonfatal Internal Error Detected
19 Error in Resource
These are serious errors that will mean SQL Server is no longer working
20 SQL Error in Current Process
21 SQL Fatal Error in Database dbid Processes
22 SQL Fatal Error Table Integrity Suspect
23 SQL Fatal Error: Database Integrity Suspect
24,25 Hardware Error
for more information on the severity levels see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa937483(SQL.80).aspx