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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](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/69e06724-25c7-4fb3-8a5b-3d4596f21756)   
 [Use Performance Objects](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/830b843a-6b2a-4620-a51b-98358e9fc54b)   
 [Monitor Resource Usage (System Monitor)](../../relational-databases/performance-monitor/monitor-resource-usage-system-monitor.md)