This is a very simple introduction into the creation of an Extended Event session using a template for Azure SQL DB. I demonstrate the use of the GUI to configure the session quickly. After which I then script that configuration before creating the session.
The Cloud
It has been a minute since I gave much love or attention to Extended Events in Azure SQL DB. Things have changed a touch since then. We will see about some of those changes in a future article. As for this time, let’s focus on how to get a session in Azure SQL DB up and running really quick and easy.
Create a Session in Azure
I am going to keep this as easy as possible for creating a session and thus I will demonstrate how to do it from the GUI. And for those more in tune with their scripting side, there is a future article on that as well as a glimpse of a script near the end of this article.
Recall from the previous article that things in Azure SQL DB are different for Extended Events. XE is database scoped rather than server scoped (as is the case with your on-premises servers). Due to this change, finding the GUI for XE is a little different.
In order to find the GUI for XE, you must drill down into the database and then you will see “Extended Events.” (Side note, there is no XE Profiler for Azure SQL DB as of this writing.) If you right-click Sessions, you will get a menu with the option to create a New Session.
After clicking “New Session…” the familiar window for a new session will appear.
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