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Microsoft SQL Server 2.11.8

Mon, 04 May 2026 15:18:19 +0000

(Platform) Fixed filtering for dt.entity.sql:sql_server_database charts in Infrastructure & Operations app.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.11.7

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:34:16 +0000

Refactored failed jobs query to make it more efficient.
(Managed) Fixed metric events to be attached to the right entity.
(Platform) Fixed alerting templates so they are attached to the right entity.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.11.5

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:30:34 +0000

Fixes and Improvements:

Entity sql:sql_server_instance would display a duplicate for a short period of time after ingesting logs. Topology rules have been corrected.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.11.1

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:01:05 +0000

New Features

Added ALERT_TEMPLATES for anomaly detectors in the Davis Anomaly Detection app.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.11.0

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:01:53 +0000

New Features

Added Worker Metrics to the Default Feature Set
- Active Workers: Displays the number of workers actively executing tasks.
- Max Workers: Shows the maximum number of workers that can be active.
- Worker Threads Percentage: Indicates the percentage of worker threads currently in use.
Added Query Performance Metric to the Queries Feature Set
- Percent of Elapsed Time for Requests Wait Type: Represents the percentage of elapsed time for requests categorized by wait type performance counter.
Added @@servername as a New Attribute
- Added as an additional attribute to Server Instances.

Improvements

Updated {device.name} to {device} on database instances, enabling the database name to appear in the naming string.

Bug Fixes

Failed Distributed Transactions Query Updated
- Resolved an issue where a temporary duplicate could occur if an orphaned query was recorded.

Future Breaking Change

In a future update Transaction Logs and Transaction logs FeatureSets will be merged into one.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.10.4

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:05:28 +0000

Potential Breaking Change affecting Availability Replica Entities

Bug Fix:

Availability Replica would not handle name instances correctly. This has been fixed and now relationship mapping will happen as expected. The previously incorrect entities may no longer appear.

Dimension Changes:

Product Version Dimension has now been changed to DB Instance Version on SQL Server Instance Entity. This is now a standardized value across Database Extensions.

Attribute Changes

All Entities created by the SQL Server Extension now have the security_context attribute which is entered via the Monitoring Configuration.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.10.1

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:22:39 +0000

Bugfix

failed_jobs previously would ingest job failures older than 5 minutes depending on the time of hour. This has been corrected.

Warning

Transaction Logs featureSet to be removed in a future update. Transaction logs will continue to exist

Microsoft SQL Server 2.10.0

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:46:28 +0000

Improvements

Added new alert SQL Server is unreachable to monitor database availability, based on Uptime metric
Uptime visualization updated from single value display to graph chart visualization for better alert investigation

Microsoft SQL Server 2.9.3

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:53:03 +0000

Bug fixes:

Current Jobs query syntax fix. This was causing a breakage of the extension

Warning:

"Transaction Logs" featureSet to be removed in a future update. "Transaction logs" will continue to exist.
Minimum EEC version increased (1.303) for Query Interval which was causing breakage issues when updating to 2.7.0 and above

Microsoft SQL Server 2.9.2

Tue, 27 May 2025 12:55:28 +0000

Bug fixes:

buffer_cache_hit bundled alert now fixed.
Minimum EEC version increased to 1.303 for Query Interval which was causing breakage issues when updating to 2.7.0 and above

Improvements:

event.group added for agent and application queries log ingest
Added "Job Category id" and "Job Category name" to Current and Failed Jobs

Features:

Now able to see the locks and waits of impacted requests.
Added Gen 3 dashboard to visualize the locks and waits data

Warning:

"Transaction Logs" featureSet to be removed in a future update. "Transaction logs" will continue to exist.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.8.0

Thu, 01 May 2025 13:16:13 +0000

New Feature:

Configurable frequency for the SQL queries

Microsoft SQL Server 2.7.5

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:07:18 +0000

Adds the SAME_AS relationship between SQL Instances and related Process Group Instances on OneAgent monitored hosts.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.7.3

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:08:22 +0000

Features:

Added a built-in dashboard for 3rd gen SaaS tenants.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.7.1

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:48:02 +0000

Fixed in this version:

Sorting SQL statements in Databases app would produce duplicate results

Microsoft SQL Server 2.7.0

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:33:42 +0000

New Entity

SQL Agent added to topology

New Metrics

Agent Status
Failed Distributed Transactions Count

New Log Ingests

Top 25 Agent Queries running longer than 60 seconds
Top 25 Application Queries running longer than 60 seconds

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Databases App did not display Uptime Hours due to syntax error.
Fixed Arithmetic Overflow Error that had a chance to occur in large environments on the Largest Files Managed calculation.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.6.0

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:22:37 +0000

Improvements

Execution Plan fetching now done in Databases App
Instance entity parsing from log records

Changes

Removed query plan from longest_queries query
Show latest back-up age

Microsoft SQL Server 2.5.4

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:27:11 +0000

Improvements:

Added default value for availability.replica.instance dimension: MSSQLSERVER.

This enables the SAME AS relationship between the sql:sql_server_instance and sql:sql_server_availability_replica entities based on the equality of their respective attributes: server = ar_server_name and instance = ar_instance_name.

Previously, if the replica was running on an instance that had a default name, the relationshp wasn't being established.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.5.3

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:50:27 +0000

Bug fixes:

Fixed typo in the metric description of the sql-server.databases.log.percentUsed.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.5.2

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:53:19 +0000

Bug fixes:

Added SAME_AS relationship from sql:sql_server_availability_replica to sql:sql_server_instance based on the matching ar_server_name -> server and ar_instance_name -> instance attributes.

Microsoft SQL Server 2.5.1

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:52:42 +0000

Bug fixes:

Hotfix for backup age retrieval in metric sql-server.databases.backup.age. Release 2.5.0 introduced a bug where age of the oldest backup instead of the latest one was retrieved.