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Monitor connections, sessions, and requests using DMVs

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Applies to: SQL analytics endpoint and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric

You can use existing dynamic management views (DMVs) to monitor connection, session, and request status in Microsoft Fabric. For more information about the tools and methods of executing T-SQL queries, see Query the Warehouse.

How to monitor connections, sessions, and requests using query lifecycle DMVs

For the current version, there are three dynamic management views (DMVs) provided for you to receive live SQL query lifecycle insights.

These three DMVs provide detailed insight on the following scenarios:

  • Who is the user running the session?
  • When was the session started by the user?
  • What's the ID of the connection to the data Warehouse and the session that is running the request?
  • How many queries are actively running?
  • Which queries are long running?

In this tutorial, learn how to monitor your running SQL queries using dynamic management views (DMVs).

Example DMV queries

The following example queries sys.dm_exec_sessions to find all sessions that are currently executing.

SELECT * 
FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions;

Screenshot showing the results of sys.dm_exec_sessions.

Find the relationship between connections and sessions

The following example joins sys.dm_exec_connections and sys.dm_exec_sessions to the relationship between the active session in a specific connection.

SELECT connections.connection_id,
 connections.connect_time,
 sessions.session_id, sessions.login_name, sessions.login_time, sessions.status
FROM sys.dm_exec_connections AS connections
INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions AS sessions
ON connections.session_id=sessions.session_id;

Identify and KILL a long-running query

This first query identifies the list of long-running queries in the order of which query has taken the longest since it has arrived.

SELECT request_id, session_id, start_time, total_elapsed_time
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests
WHERE status = 'running'
ORDER BY total_elapsed_time DESC;

This second query shows which user ran the session that has the long-running query.

SELECT login_name
FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions
WHERE 'session_id' = 'SESSION_ID WITH LONG-RUNNING QUERY';

This third query shows how to use the KILL command on the session_id with the long-running query.

KILL 'SESSION_ID WITH LONG-RUNNING QUERY'

For example

KILL '101'

Permissions

  • An Admin has permissions to execute all three DMVs (sys.dm_exec_connections, sys.dm_exec_sessions, sys.dm_exec_requests) to see their own and others' information within a workspace.
  • A Member, Contributor, and Viewer can execute sys.dm_exec_sessions and sys.dm_exec_requests and see their own results within the warehouse, but does not have permission to execute sys.dm_exec_connections.
  • Only an Admin has permission to run the KILL command.

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