I had been asked the question about using the Perf Dashboard reports from a Reporting Services instance multiple times. Though this was not the intention of launching the SQL Server Performance Dashboard Reports but there is a compelling need at times to have these accessible from a web URL. In today’s age, you will find a lot of DBAs monitor their SQL Server instances remotely. Sometimes, there is another layer of complexity added to this when they want to just look at the health of the SQL Server instance by accessing a URL exposed through a corporate server in their environment. In such cases, you wouldn’t want to jump through a few hoops of setting up your VPN connection and blah blah.

So with all that in mind, let’s talk about how you can get your SQL Server 2012 Performance Dashboard to your existing SQL Server Reporting Services instance.

• First you need to create a new Reporting Services Project using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
• Use the solution explorer to add all the existing performance dashboard reports from the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Performance Dashboard folder.
• Modify the project properties to ensure that the data source gets written to the same folder as the reports.
• Create a shared data source pointing to your SQL Server instance.
• Open each report that was imported into the project and modify the data source properties to use the shared data source that you created in the above step.
• Modify the project deployment properties as shown below.

Now you are ready to deploy your Performance Dashboard SSRS project to your reporting services instance.

What can you do next?

You can now set up Report Server subscriptions for the set of reports that you wish to receive via email. You can get a status report of your SQL Server instance without even having to lift a finger and that to right in your mailbox!

Note that Performance Dashboard is a tool which is provided “AS-IS” by Microsoft. The steps mentioned above will help you deploy the existing Performance Dashboard reports to a SQL Server Reporting Services instance. However, the failure to deploy these reports as mentioned above is not liable for support by Microsoft SQL Server Support team.