Surveillance IQ™: Sybase IQ Monitoring Features

Surveillance IQ™ monitors, reports, and alerts for key performance and utilization metrics providing a turnkey monitoring solution for your Sybase IQ environment.

In addition to the Surveillance standard features set (listed below), the following are specific features provided for Sybase IQ:

 

Standard Features

  • Monitor unlimited servers through its distributed agent architecture
  • Real-time, proactive monitoring, event-driven alerting and task dispatching
  • "Flashback" to the recent past and diagnose data to determine the root cause of an outage.
  • Allow DBAs to share information between the various agents, minimizing data retrieval and overhead while maximizing efficiency on complex networks.
  • Customizable client user interface that increases a DBA's effectiveness to view only the information they need to see.
  • Easy integration of Surveillance alerts with existing network console systems, such as Tivoli or OpenView.
  • Easy integration of existing SQL scripts into Surveillance, through the user-defined collection (UDC) capability.
  • Produce high quality reports from the Surveillance Centralized Repository Database, and generate numerous pre-defined reports for each monitored platform.

Specific Features/Benefits for Sybase IQ

  • Monitoring of Sybase IQ 15.3 is supported, with logical clusters, shared temporary stores, and PlexQ, or Distributed Query Processing (DQP)
  • The Recently Executed Statements Window mines IQ SQL Log information on IQ 15
  • Surveillance IQ provides real-time statistics on memory allocation, buffer and storage utilization, and disk and network I/O
  • Ensure that your entire IQ Multiplex environment is healthy and available
  • Monitor the key metric of Other Versions due to connections or Multiplex query servers
  • Find recently-executed SQL for the database or specific connections
  • Connections are shown with their resource utilization, detailed drilldowns to transactions, SQL, and lock information
  • Monitor all open transactions and their resources
  • Analyze space usage by external files such as the Catalog Store, Catalog Log, IQ Message File
  • Alert on parameters that would take an IQ database offline or negatively affect its performance
  • Report on table and column usage, index advice