sql-server-agent-jobs-object.md

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SQL Server Agent, Jobs Object

The SQL Server Agent Jobs performance object contains performance counters that report information about SQL Server Agent jobs. The table below lists the counters that this object contains.

The table below contains the SQLAgent:Jobs counters.

Name	Description
Active Jobs	This counter reports the number of jobs currently running.
Failed jobs	This counter reports the number of jobs that exited with failure.
Job success rate	This counter reports the percentage of executed jobs that completed successfully.
Jobs activated/minute	This counter reports the number of jobs launched within the last minute.
Queued jobs	This counter reports the number of jobs that are ready for SQL Server Agent to run, but which have not yet started running.
Successful jobs	This counter reports the number of jobs that exited with success.

Each counter in the object contains the following instances:

Instance	Description
_Total	Information for all jobs.
Alerts	Information for jobs started by alerts.
Others	Information for jobs that were not started by alerts or schedules. Typically these are jobs started manually using sp_start_job.
Schedules	Information for jobs started by schedules.

See Also

Implement Jobs
Use Performance Objects
Monitor Resource Usage (System Monitor)