Common Workflows

Capture → analyze → replay playbooks.

Pre-upgrade rehearsal

1. Capture Extended Events from production (or a prod-like load) for a known busy window.
2. Restore a backup of the database to the target version / hardware.
3. Replay with the same concurrency settings; compare duration and errors on the Results/Summary tabs.
4. Export PDF/Excel reports for the upgrade go/no-go meeting.

Compare two traces

1. Capture (or import) baseline and candidate traces.
2. Use compare views to spot new errors, slower statements, or missing events.

Safe first replay

1. Enable Dry-Run so statements are prepared/validated without full side effects where supported.
2. Start with fewer threads than production peak; raise concurrency after a clean pass.