How do I monitor SQL Server log shipping?
To monitor a log shipping configuration, you must add the monitor server when you enable log shipping. If you add a monitor server later, you must remove the log shipping configuration and then replace it with a new configuration that includes a monitor server.
How do you failover log shipping?
To fail over to a secondary database: Copy any uncopied backup files from the backup share to the copy destination folder of each secondary server. Apply any unapplied transaction log backups in sequence to each secondary database. For more information, see Apply Transaction Log Backups (SQL Server).
When to add a monitor server for log shipping?
If a monitor server is not specified, an alert job also runs on each secondary server instance to monitor the local copy and restore operations. To monitor a log shipping configuration, you must add the monitor server when you enable log shipping.
Can a log be shipped to multiple instances?
The log can be shipped to multiple secondary server instances. In such cases, operations 2 and 3 are duplicated for each secondary server instance. A log shipping configuration does not automatically fail over from the primary server to the secondary server.
How to monitor transaction log shipping in SQL Server?
If you notice that a couple of days later, but by then, it’s too late because the LSN chain is already broken with deleting the (n) days later backup at primary and you have to restart log shipping from scratch. The best way to monitor the multiple Log shipping connections in SQL Server is through separate monitoring instance.
Where to find log shipping status in SQL Server?
You can use the Log Shipping Status report by right clicking on the server name in SQL Server Management Studio and navigating to Reports > Standard Reports > Transaction Log Shipping Status. For more information on SQL Server Log Shipping monitoring check out this tip – Different ways to monitor Log Shipping for SQL Server databases.