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Why does Foglight kill SPIDS

gmoss
5 months ago

I noticed that SPIDS were being killed on a regular basis although the timing was Intermittent. There appears a record in the SQL Server errorlog which reads as follows: Process ID 121 was killed by hostname xxxxx-SPOTL-APP, host process ID 0.

After some investigation I was able to see the process being killed was the "SQL Server Performance Investigator".

Question #1 Why is the application killing its threads/queries? Should the application not manage its connections and queries through the API rather than forcibly killing a SPID?

Question #2 It looks like the input buffer shows that the Foglight application is running queries that may have been written for SQL Server 2005/2008. Has Foglight updated their queries to adjust for DMV's and other changes that have occurred from the 2005 version to 2019 version, as that is the version of SQL Server we are running?

Question #3 What algorithm is used to determine how, when and why a SPID is killed? 

Question #4 Is this documented anywhere??

any help is appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Greg Moss


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  • 0 5 months ago

    Hi Greg,

    Foglight killing sessions in the monitored host is a normal process. The database agent will periodically clean up its own idle sessions. DBSSSessionCleanerProcessor is the process that does this work, and should be listed with the session ID in the database agent log file.

    There are also scenarios in which duplicate monitoring can kill sessions or they can be manually killed by users using the Sessions panel.

    Knowledgebase article  4373370 details each scenario. Based on your description though, it seems like the Session Cleaner processing is happening with the agent.

    John

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  • 0 5 months ago

    Hi Greg,

    Foglight killing sessions in the monitored host is a normal process. The database agent will periodically clean up its own idle sessions. DBSSSessionCleanerProcessor is the process that does this work, and should be listed with the session ID in the database agent log file.

    There are also scenarios in which duplicate monitoring can kill sessions or they can be manually killed by users using the Sessions panel.

    Knowledgebase article  4373370 details each scenario. Based on your description though, it seems like the Session Cleaner processing is happening with the agent.

    John

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