What is the sql server permission requirement for user account used in the DEA (Database Experimentation Assistant) tool?

[irl]

I am planning to capture trace using the DEA (Database Experimentation Assistant) tool.

What is the sql server permission requirement for user account used in the DEA tool?

[Cleofas]

From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/dea/database-experimentation-assistant-overview?view=sql-server-ver15 , required permission is as below:

Replaying a trace requires that the user running DEA:

Can connect to the target database server using Windows authentication. Has sysadmin rights on the target database server. In addition, replaying a trace requires that:

The service account running the target database servers has write access to the trace folder path. The service account running Distributed Replay clients can connect to the target database server using Windows authentication. TCP ports are opened for incoming requests on the Distributed Replay controller. DEA communicates with the Distributed Replay controller by using COM interfaces.

Analysis configuration requirements

Performing the analysis requires that the user running DEA:

Can connect to the analysis database server using Windows authentication. Has sysadmin rights on the source database server.

There is a great video on this topic from Dustin Dorsey, you may go through that for more details:

https://sqlbits.com/sessions/event20/Baselining_Performance_with_DEA