SharePoint 2013 & PerformancePoint

Note to self: Instead of banging your head for two days trying to resolve the issue of PerformancePoint reports not displaying. When you see a “Failed to Sql Query data XEvent collector on sqldbserver…” message within the log files, first ensure that the SharePoint farm account has been granted the serveradmin role upon the SQL server. […]

Note to self: Instead of banging your head for two days trying to resolve the issue of PerformancePoint reports not displaying. When you see a “Failed to Sql Query data XEvent collector on sqldbserver…” message within the log files, first ensure that the SharePoint farm account has been granted the serveradmin role upon the SQL server.

See: Failed to Sql Query data XEvent collector on sqldbserver. The error is Object reference not set to an instance of an object. And other SQL related errors in SharePoint 2013