SQL Server, Broker Statistics object

Applies to: SQL Server

The SQLServer:Broker Statistics performance object contains performance counters that report general Service Broker information for an instance of the Database Engine. The following table lists the counters that this object contains:

SQL Server Broker Statistics counters Description
Activation Errors Total The number of times a Service Broker activation stored procedure exited with an error.
Broker Transaction Rollbacks The number of rolled-back transactions that contained DML statements related to Service Broker, such as SEND and RECEIVE.
Corrupted Messages Total The number of corrupted messages that were received by the instance.
Dequeued Transmission Msgs/sec The number of messages that have been removed from the Service Broker transmission queue per second.
Dialog timer event count The number of timers active in the dialog protocol layer. This number corresponds to the number of active dialogs.
Dropped Messages Total The number of messages that were received by the instance, but could not be delivered to a queue.
Enqueued Local Messages Total The number of messages that have been put into the queues in the instance, counting only messages that did not arrive through the network.
Enqueued Local Messages/sec The number of messages per second that have been put into the queues in the instance, counting only messages that did not arrive through the network.
Enqueued Messages Total The total number of messages that have been put into the queues in the instance.
Enqueued Messages/sec The number of messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues per second, including messages of all priority levels.
Enqueued P1 Msgs/sec The number of priority 1 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P2 Msgs/sec The number of priority 2 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P3 Msgs/sec The number of priority 3 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P4 Msgs/sec The number of priority 4 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P5 Msgs/sec The number of priority 5 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P6 Msgs/sec The number of priority 6 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P7 Msgs/sec The number of priority 7 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P8 Msgs/sec The number of priority 8 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P9 Msgs/sec The number of priority 9 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued P10 Msgs/sec The number of priority 10 messages from local endpoints and the transport that are successfully delivered into local target queues, per second.
Enqueued Transmission Msgs/sec The number of messages that have been placed in the Service Broker transmission queue per second.
Enqueued Transport Msg Frag Tot The number of message fragments that have been put into the queues in the instance, counting only messages that arrived through the network.
Enqueued Transport Msg Frags/sec The number of message fragments per second that have been put into the queues in the instance.
Enqueued Transport Msgs Total The number of messages that have been put into the queues in the instance, counting only messages that arrived through the network.
Enqueued Transport Msgs/sec The number of messages per second that have been put into the queues in the instance, counting only messages that arrived through the network.
Forwarded Messages Total The total number of Service Broker messages forwarded by this computer.
Forwarded Messages/sec The number of messages per second forwarded by this computer.
Forwarded Msg Byte Total The total size, in bytes, of the messages forwarded by this computer.
Forwarded Msg Bytes/sec The size, in bytes, of messages per second forwarded by this computer.
Forwarded Msg Discarded Total The number of messages that this computer received for forwarding, but did not successfully forward.
Forwarded Msg Discarded/sec The number of messages per second that this computer received for forwarding, but did not successfully forward.
Forwarded Pending Msg Bytes The total size of the messages currently held for forwarding.
Forwarded Pending Msg Count The total number of messages currently held for forwarding.
SQL RECEIVE Total The total number of Transact-SQL RECEIVE statements processed by the Broker.
SQL RECEIVEs/sec The number of Transact-SQL RECEIVE statements processed by the Broker per second.
SQL SEND Total The total number of Transact-SQL SEND statements executed.
SQL SENDs/sec The number of Transact-SQL SEND statements executed per second.

Example

You begin to explore the query performance counters in this object using this T-SQL query on the sys.dm_os_performance_counters dynamic management view:

SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE object_name LIKE '%Broker Statistics%';