Maintenance and Monitoring are essential parts of database administration and any relational database has no exclusion from these tasks. There are various tools available from the SQL Server product in addition to the tools from the Windows operating system. The key aspects of SQL Server maintenance is to keep up the availability and achieve optimal performance, thereby minimizing the time for users to obtain the results of queries and provide out of the box scalability. In order to reduce manual intervention, monitoring will help us to track the resource usage, network traffic, and transactions usage on the data platform. For a DBA to improve the system performance, it is essential to line-up baseline and benchmarking of the data platform.