Rules can now be data: a JSON file with one read-only SELECT where every
row is a finding, with {column} templates, server or per-database scope,
minimum version, sensitive columns and references. Community rules live
in rules/community (reviewed via pull request), ship with every build
and with the signed rule pack; local rules are read from the agent's
data folder every five minutes. Queries are checked for anything that
could write, run with the least-privilege login, and a missing
permission makes the rule not measurable rather than failing. The
rule engine picks up catalog changes without a restart. Authors get
'rules validate' and 'rules test --instance'. Four example community
rules (sa active, orphaned database owners, default trace off,
untrusted foreign keys).
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SQLI-VER-002 flags instances behind the newest known CU, security update
or final service pack (catalog as of 2026-09-29, shipped as rule pack
data and called out when older than 120 days).
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Collectors (SQL Server 2000+, version-specific SQL, least privilege):
server, configuration, trace flags, databases (settings, backups in UTC,
CHECKDB, VLFs, Query Store, files, tempdb), suspect pages, plan cache,
wait stats and file I/O as deltas with restart/clear detection,
performance counters, CPU from the scheduler monitor ring buffer,
blocking (sleeping head blockers with open transactions), and deadlocks
from system_health continuing from the last file offset.
Rules: configuration (memory, MAXDOP per Microsoft NUMA guidance, cost
threshold, ad hoc bloat, risky options, pending changes), databases
(state, settings, backups, log backups, CHECKDB, suspect pages, VLFs,
autogrowth, max size, Query Store, tempdb), waits (THREADPOOL, signal
waits, locks, I/O, WRITELOG, parallelism, PAGELATCH), I/O latency, CPU,
memory grants, blocking and deadlocks. Missing data makes a rule not
measurable with the collector's reason.
Integration tests run every collector as the least-privilege login and
reproduce real blocking and a real deadlock; green on 2017 and 2022.
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- .NET 10 solution with Core, Connectivity, Rules, Contracts, Agent, Web and Hub
- Capability model gating collectors and rules by SQL Server version (2000 and later);
rules that cannot run are reported as not measurable, never as passed
- Connectivity via Microsoft.Data.SqlClient with ODBC fallback for legacy instances,
hardened monitoring session settings valid back to SQL Server 2000
- Support lifecycle rule (SQLI-VER-001) with lifecycle data shipped as a rule pack
- Version-aware least-privilege permissions script, verified by integration tests
against SQL Server in Docker (reads monitoring sources, cannot read customer data)
- Forgejo Actions CI, contributing guide, code of conduct, issue templates,
legacy version notes
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