SQL Anywhere makes a large variety of statistics available. Rates are reported in 1 second intervals. The statistics are grouped into the following areas:
These statistics describe the use of the cache.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cache Hits/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which database page lookups are satisfied by finding the page in the cache. |
| Cache Reads: Index Interior/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which index internal-node pages are read from the cache. |
| Cache Reads: Index Leaf/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which index leaf pages are read from the cache. |
| Cache Reads: Table/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which table pages are read from the cache. |
| Cache Reads: Total Pages/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which database pages are looked up in the cache. |
| Cache Reads: Work Table | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which work table pages are being read from the cache. |
| Cache Replacements: Total Pages/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which database pages are being purged from the cache to make room for another page that is needed. |
| Cache Size: Current | Server | Shows the current size of the database server cache, in kilobytes. |
| Cache Size: Maximum | Server | Shows the maximum allowed size of the database server cache, in kilobytes. |
| Cache Size: Minimum | Server | Shows the minimum allowed size of the database server cache, in kilobytes. |
| Cache Size: Peak | Server | Shows the peak size of the database server cache, in kilobytes. |
These statistics isolate the checkpoint and recovery actions performed when the database is in an idle state.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint Flushes/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which ranges of adjacent pages are written out during a checkpoint. |
| Checkpoint Urgency | Database | Shows the checkpoint urgency, expressed as a percentage. |
| Checkpoints/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which checkpoints are performed. |
| ChkptLog: Bitmap size | Database | Shows the size of the checkpoint log bitmap. |
| ChkptLog: Commit to disk/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which checkpoint log commit_to_disk operations are being performed. |
| ChkptLog: Log size | Database | Shows the size of the checkpoint log in pages. |
| ChkptLog: Page images saved/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which pages are being saved in the checkpoint log prior to modification. |
| ChkptLog: Pages in use | Database | Shows the number of pages in the checkpoint log which are currently in use. |
| ChkptLog: Relocate pages/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which pages in the checkpoint log are being relocated. |
| ChkptLog: Save preimage/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which new database page preimages are being added to the checkpoint log. |
| ChkptLog: Write pages/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which pages are being written to the checkpoint log. |
| ChkptLog: Writes/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which disk writes are being performed in the checkpoint log. One write can include multiple pages. |
| ChkptLog: Writes to bitmap/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which disk writes are being performed in the checkpoint log for bitmap pages. |
| Idle Actives/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which the database server's idle thread becomes active to do idle writes, idle checkpoints, and so on. |
| Idle Checkpoint Time | Database | Shows the total time spent doing idle checkpoints, in seconds. |
| Idle Checkpoints/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which checkpoints are completed by the database server's idle thread. An idle checkpoint occurs whenever the idle thread writes out the last dirty page in the cache. |
| Idle Writes/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which disk writes are issued by the database server's idle thread. |
| Recovery I/O Estimate | Database | Shows the estimated number of I/O operations required to recover the database. |
| Recovery Urgency | Database | Shows the recovery urgency expressed as a percentage. |
These statistics describe client/server communications activity.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Comm: Bytes Received/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which network data (in bytes) are received. |
| Comm: Bytes Received Uncompressed/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which bytes would have been received if compression was disabled. |
| Comm: Bytes Sent/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which bytes are transmitted over the network. |
| Comm: Bytes Sent Uncompressed/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which bytes would have been sent if compression was disabled. |
| Comm: Free Buffers | Server | Shows the number of free network buffers. |
| Comm: Multi-packets Received/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which multi-packet deliveries are received. |
| Comm: Multi-packets Sent/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which multi-packet deliveries are transmitted. |
| Comm: Packets Received/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which network packets are received. |
| Comm: Packets Received Uncompressed/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which network packets would have been received if compression was disabled. |
| Comm: Packets Sent/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which network packets are transmitted. |
| Comm: Packets Sent Uncompressed/sec | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which network packets would have been transmitted if compression was disabled. |
| Comm: Remoteput Waits/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which the communication link must wait because it does not have buffers available to send information. This statistic is collected for TCP/IP only. |
| Comm: Requests Received | Connection and server | Shows the number of client/server communication requests or round-trips. It is different from the Comm: Packets Received statistic in that multi-packet requests count as one request, and liveness packets are not included. |
| Comm: Send Fails/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which the underlying protocol(s) failed to send a packet. |
| Comm: Total Buffers | Server | Shows the total number of network buffers. |
| Comm: Unique Client Addresses | Server | Shows the number of unique client network addresses connected to the database server. This is usually the number of client machines connected, and may be less than the total number of connections. |
These statistics combine disk reads and disk writes to give overall information about the amount of activity devoted to disk I/O.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Disk: Active I/Os | Database | Shows the current number of file I/Os issued by the database server which have not yet completed. |
| Disk: Maximum Active I/Os | Database | Shows the maximum value "Disk: Active I/Os" has reached. |
These statistics describe the amount and type of activity devoted to reading information from disk.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Disk Reads: Total Pages/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which pages are read from a file. |
| Disk Reads: Active | Database | Shows the current number of file reads issued by the database server which haven't yet completed. |
| Disk Reads: Index interior/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which index internal-node pages are being read from disk. |
| Disk Reads: Index leaf/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which index leaf pages are being read from disk. |
| Disk Reads: Table/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which table pages are being read from disk. |
| Disk Reads: Maximum Active | Database | Shows the maximum value "Disk Reads: Active" has reached. |
| Disk Reads: Work Table | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which work table pages are being read from disk. |
These statistics describe the amount and type of activity devoted to writing information to disk.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Disk Writes: Active | Database | Shows the current number of file writes issued by the database server that aren't yet completed. |
| Disk Writes: Maximum Active | Database | Shows the maximum value "Disk Writes: Active" has reached. |
| Disk Writes: Commit Files/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which the database server forces a flush of the disk cache. Windows platforms use unbuffered (direct) I/O, so the disk cache doesn't need to be flushed. |
| Disk Writes: Database Extends/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which the database file is extended, in pages/sec. |
| Disk Writes: Temp Extends/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which temporary files are extended, in pages/sec. |
| Disk Writes: Pages/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which modified pages are being written to disk. |
| Disk Writes: Transaction Log/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which pages are written to the transaction log. |
| Translog Group Commits/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which a commit of the transaction log was requested but the log had already been written (so the commit was done for free). |
These statistics describe the use of the index.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Index: Adds/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which entries are added to indexes. |
| Index: Lookups/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which entries are looked up in indexes. |
| Index: Full Compares/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which comparisons beyond the hash value in an index must be performed. |
These statistics describe how the database server is using memory.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cache: Multi-Page Allocations | Server | Shows the number of multi-page allocations. |
| Cache: Panics | Server | Shows the number of times the cache manager has failed to find a page to allocate. |
| Cache: Scavenge Visited | Server | Shows the number of pages visited while scavenging for a page to allocate. |
| Cache: Scavenges | Server | Shows the number of times the cache manager has scavenged for a page to allocate. |
| Cache Pages: Allocated Structures | Server | Shows the number of cache pages that have been allocated for database server data structures. |
| Cache Pages: File | Server | Shows the number of cache pages used to hold data from database files. |
| Cache Pages: File Dirty | Server | Shows the number of cache pages that are dirty (needing a write). |
| Cache Pages: Free | Server | Shows the number of cache pages not being used. |
| Cache Pages: Pinned | Server | Shows the number of pages currently unavailable for reuse. |
| Cache Replacements: Total Pages/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which database pages are being purged from the cache to make room for another page that is needed. |
| Heaps: Carver | Connection and server | Shows the number of heaps used for short-term purposes such as query optimization.. |
| Heaps: Query Processing | Connection and server | Shows the number of heaps used for query processing (hash and sort operations). |
| Heaps: Relocatable | Connection and server | Shows the number of relocatable heaps. |
| Heaps: Relocatable Locked | Connection and server | Shows the number of relocatable heaps currently locked in the cache. |
| Map physical memory/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which database page address space windows are being mapped to physical memory in the cache using Address Windowing Extensions. |
| Mem Pages: Carver | Connection and server | Shows the number of heap pages used for short-term purposes such as query optimization. |
| Mem Pages: Pinned Cursor | Server | Shows the number of pages used to keep cursor heaps pinned in memory. |
| Mem Pages: Query Processing | Connection and server | Shows the number of cache pages used for query processing (hash and sort operations). |
| Query Memory: Current Active | Connection and server | Shows the current number of requests actively using query memory. |
| Query Memory: Estimated Active | Server | Shows the database server's estimate of the steady state average of the number of requests actively using query memory. |
| Query Memory: Extra Available | Server | Shows the amount of memory available to grant beyond the base memory-intensive grant. |
| Query Memory: Number of Grant Fails | Connection and server | Shows the total number of times any request waited for query memory and failed to get it. |
| Query Memory: Number of Grant Requests | Connection and server | Shows the total number of times any request attempted to acquire query memory. |
| Query Memory: Number of Grant Waits | Connection and server | Shows the total number of times any request waited for memory. |
| Query Memory: Pages Granted | Connection and server | Shows the number of pages currently granted to requests. |
| Query Memory: Requests Waiting | Connection and server | Shows the current number of requests waiting for query memory. |
These statistics describe the amount and purpose of memory used by the database server.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mem Pages: Lock Table | Database | Shows the number of pages used to store lock information. |
| Mem Pages: Locked Heap | Server | Shows the number of heap pages locked in the cache. |
| Mem Pages: Main Heap | Server | Shows the number of pages used for global database server data structures. |
| Mem Pages: Map Pages | Database | Shows the number of map pages used for accessing the lock table, frequency table, and table layout. |
| Mem Pages: Procedure Definitions | Database | Shows the number of relocatable heap pages used for procedures. |
| Mem Pages: Relocatable | Database | Shows the number of pages used for relocatable heaps (cursors, statements, procedures, triggers, views, and so on). |
| Mem Pages: Relocations/sec | Database | Shows the rate at which relocatable heap pages are read from the temporary file. |
| Mem Pages: Rollback Log | Connection and database | Shows the number of pages in the rollback log. |
| Mem Pages: Trigger Definitions | Database | Shows the number of relocatable heap pages used for triggers. |
| Mem Pages: View Definitions | Database | Shows the number of relocatable heap pages used for views. |
These statistics describe the database server activity devoted to responding to requests from client applications.
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cursors | Connection | Shows the number of declared cursors currently maintained by the database server. |
| Cursors Open | Connection | Shows the number of open cursors currently maintained by the database server. |
| Lock Count | Connection and database | Shows the number of locks. |
| Requests/sec | Server | Shows the rate at which the database server is entered to allow it to handle a new request or continue processing an existing request. |
| Requests: Active | Server | Shows the number of database server threads that are currently handling a request. |
| Tasks: Exchange | Server | Shows the number of database server threads that are currently being used for parallel execution of a query. |
| Requests: Unscheduled | Server | Shows the number of requests that are currently queued up waiting for an available database server thread. |
| Snapshot Count | Connection and database | Shows the number of active snapshots. |
| Statement Cache Hits | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which statement prepares cached by the client are being re-used by the database server. |
| Statement Cache Misses | Connection and server | Shows the rate at which statement prepares cached by the client need to be prepared again by the database server. |
| Statement Prepares | Connection | Shows the rate at which statement prepares are being handled by the database server. |
| Statements | Connection | Shows the number of prepared statements currently maintained by the database server. |
| Transaction Commits | Connection | Shows the rate at which Commit requests are handled. |
| Transaction Rollbacks | Connection | Shows the rate at which Rollback requests are handled. |
| Statistic | Scope | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Avail IO | Server | Shows the current number of available I/O control blocks. |
| Connection Count | Database | Shows the number of connections to this database. |
| Main Heap Bytes | Server | Shows the number of bytes used for global database server data structures. |
| Query: Plan cache pages | Connection and database | Shows the number of pages used to cache execution plans. |
| Query: Low memory strategies | Connection and database | Shows the number of times the database server changed its execution plan during execution because of low memory conditions. |
| Query: Rows materialized/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which rows are written to work tables during query processing. |
| Requests: GET DATA/sec | Connection and database | Shows the rate at which a connection is issuing GET DATA requests. |
| Temporary Table Pages | Connection and database | Shows the number of pages in the temporary file used for temporary tables. |
| Version Store Pages | Database | Shows the number of pages of the temporary file currently being used for the row version store when snapshot isolation is enabled. |
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