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  1. Add Top Waits info for PostgreSQL

    Re: PostgreSQL Monitoring

    Please add the ability to show wait stats by wait type as you have for SQL Server.

    3 votes
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  2. Show login and client hostname/IP address for Top Queries on PostgreSQL

    Re: PostgreSQL Monitoring

    Please add information about the connection that the queries (in the Top Queries section) were executed on, specifically the client machine hostname/ IP address and the login name.

    4 votes
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  3. Job failing Alert option for number of consecutive failures in a row

    I have some SQL Agent jobs that run every 2 minutes and legitimately fail occasionally to circumstances outside our control.
    I need to be alerted if the job is constantly failing, e.g. failed 5 times in a row, but I do not care about one off failures.

    Having a customisable option for individual jobs to alert only after X consecutive failures would be fantastic.

    3 votes
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  4. Show query history for custom date range in "Top Queries" view

    In the top queries window, the history can only be searched via three date ranges:

    Zoom Range,
    Window Range,
    All history

    It would be good to be able to search a custom date range to make the graph easier to see for a time period of interest. Window range is only three days max and all time can be too broad.

    5 votes
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  5. Provide Managed identity as an Authentication Method to the Redgate Azure SQL DB

    Support for using the managed identity of the Webserver/Applicationserver VM to authenticate over the AAD on the Azure SQL Redgate Database.

    -> Maybe also Support for Azure App Service which has built-in this functionality?

    3 votes
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  6. Monitor DB2 Databases

    I would like to be able to monitor DB2 databases in the same fashion as SQL Server databases.

    3 votes
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  7. Monitor Oracle Databases

    I would like to be able to monitor Oracle databases in the same fashion as SQL Server databases.

    3 votes
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  8. Clear RedGate Alerts automatically

    Once the alert is taken care of, RedGate should send an email saying that the alert is cleared. Also, there is no need of a clear button in the web interface, it should be done automatically.

    2 votes
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  9. Estate Licensing - Align with Microsoft HA/DR Licensing policy

    Estate licensing appears to tally all licenses for servers in an WFC/HA config. 3 node cluster 4 cores, 12 licenses (when it should be 8). Please provide the process to identify an HA or DR node, which will allow the Redgate Estate portal to align with Microsoft SQL Licensing: https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/9/e29a9331-965d-4faa-bd2e-7c1db7cd8348/SQL_Server_2019_Licensing_guide.pdf.

    3 votes
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  10. Mask sensitive data from deadlock and top queries

    We want to let developers use SQL Monitor, but for that sensitive data has to be masked. Two places that come in mind where we can things like literals in WHERE clause etc are deadlock and top queries. This would ideally be combined with a security group which which the masking should apply.

    3 votes
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  11. be able to set top level notification settings through powershell module

    I want to be able to use Redgatesqm.ps1 to configure smtp server, default email list and other top level notification options.

    1 vote
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  12. Only Query Serverless Azure SQL Databases if they are Online and not Paused

    As mentioned in the below post, SQL Monitor will keep serverless Azure SQL databases from pausing and saving us the money they are supposed to. I would like the Azure SQL monitoring piece to be rewritten to use the Azure API to determine both if the Azure SQL DB is serverless or not and if it is AND paused, don't run any queries that would wake it. Yet if it is NOT paused, get info about it and update SQL Monitor.

    https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/45670060-exclude-serverless-databases-from-monitoring

    3 votes
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  13. Job Duration Unusual Alert should be 'AG aware' to avoid false positives

    We are using an AG for one of our instances.
    As you would expect we have the same SQLAgent jobs created on both instances in this AG, but we only want the job to execute on the primary.
    In SQLAgent the jobs on both nodes of the AG have a step at the beginning which checks to see if this is the primary instance.
    If it is the primary instance it will proceed to step 2 and execute the rest of the job.
    If it is not the primary instance the job will terminate.
    This all works fine - however…

    2 votes
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  14. Ability to filter "TOP Queries" by login

    Often we want to filter queries not only per existing options (database, parent or query) but it's useful to be able to search for a specific login.

    Could you allow searching by login using "l:" or "login:"?

    9 votes
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  15. Add date to legend when filtering across multiple days

    When we filter on the top graph across multiple days, on the legend below won't show the days, just the time.

    The image is the current case.

    What I would like is to have the days.
    Instead of "from 08:18 to 08:19"
    expected "from 18 Jun 08:18 to 19 Jun 08:19" or equivalent

    3 votes
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  16. AG sync progress

    Implement Availability Group data synchronization progress.
    We use Automatic seeding and stats can be observed under "sys.dmhadrautomaticseeding" and "sys.dmhadrphysicalseeding_stats".
    Maybe that info not 100% accurate when Traceflag 9567 is ON, but anyway somehow helpful

    1 vote
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  17. Schedule hourly reports to email out and base on groups

    I would like to be able to send hourly email report for example Failed sql agent jobs base on a group not just one server, covering certain period of time like 9-5 each day of the week Monday- Friday.

    5 votes
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  18. Expiring Certificates

    Would really helpful to have an alert for expiring certificates on a cert be it backup encryption ones or tde certs that are going to be expiring and we specifies how much notice we want given before the expiry

    8 votes
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  19. Long Running Open SSMS Transaction

    Would be really helpful to have an alert that can alert on long running open SSMS transaction and the alert can return the user running it and query being run and on what server we often see it when users forget to commit or role back there transaction.

    4 votes
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  20. Use a private route for AWS RDS instances to remove the need for a public endpoint to monitor the instance

    The current configuration only allows for the specific format my-db-identifier.random-chars.aws-region.rds.amazonaws.com / my-db-identifier.random-chars.rds.aws-region.amazonaws.com.cn. We would like the ability to use any dns name to allow intra-cloud or hybrid cloud scenarios for the ability to use a private/internal route to the RDS instance so that we do not have to use the public route for monitoring.

    3 votes
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