If you could only monitor 10 SQL Server 2005 counters, what would they be? [closed]

Question

Yes, this is rather subjective, but I am doing research on that matter and am curious to see if others have come to the same conclusions that I have. So, I ask, if you could only monitor 10 SQL Server 2005 counters, what would they be?

Answer 1

Are these SQL Server specific counters or SQL Server Machine Counters? If they are machine wide counters then I recommend these:

• SQLServer: Memory Manager: Memory Grants Outstanding
• SQLServer: General Statistics:Logins/Sec, Logouts/Sec, User Connections
• Memory: Available Bytes
• Memory: Pages/Sec
• Paging File: % Usage
• PhysicalDisk: Avg. Disk Queue Length
• Processor: % Processor Time