SQL Azure resource_stats view is empty

Question

We're having trouble with the reliability of our SQL Azure database , and in an effort to see if we are consuming excessive resources I tried to view our stats records. MSDN offers some initial guidance on querying sys.resource_stats

Our sys.resource_stats view returns no records at all.

If I try to view the monitoring in the Azure portal, I get an error that the server could not retrieve metrics.

We have no idea why this view would not return any records or how to fix it.

Answer 1

There is known issue that causes this telemetry not to be displayed. A fix for this issue is beeing roll-out.

You can query the sys.dm_db_resource_stats in the database itself (not master) to get the utilization data for the last hour. This view also has the advantage of showing finer granular data than sys.dresource_stats in master.