After my moan the other week about the lack of monitoring tools for the Microsoft BI stack, Carl Rabeler of the SQLCat team contacted me with news of a whole load of new, related samples that he and his colleagues have been working on. Most relevant is a sample app for capturing SSAS trace information, storing it in SQL Server then using SSRS to report on it:
I know several people have already done something similar (a friend of mine, Hugo Lopes, told me he’d done the same thing only gone the exta step of putting the data into a cube) and hopefully now all this is in Codeplex the community can pul together and develop it into something more sophisticated.
There are also some sample Powershell scripts for querying SSAS008 DMVs:
