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System_health

View Multiple System Health Extended Event Files

March 10, 2017

Last week I blogged about increasing retention of System Health session files. In this post I will show how you can open multiple files at once and work with the data as one set. If you select multiple System Health extended event files (with extension .xel) and click open each file will open in separate […]

SQL Server system_health Session Retention

March 3, 2017

As per Microsoft’s books online The system_health session is an Extended Events session that is included by default with SQL Server. This session starts automatically when the SQL Server Database Engine starts, and runs without any noticeable performance effects. The session collects system data that you can use to help troubleshoot performance issues in the […]



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