Suggestions
Welcome to the Redgate Monitor feature suggestions list. Tell us how we can improve Redgate Monitor by voting on these suggestions or by submitting your own ideas.
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Add Key Lookups to the SQL Server metrics
Though Page Splits and Full scans are useful metrics for index's, key lookups can be handy in finding areas where covering indexes are required and have been helpful in seeing where there is a regressed query from a bad plan - this would be a handy metric to have within the SQL Server metrics part of the main dashboard next to the other 2 mentioned.
19 votes -
on the Query executions page add the SPID
on the query execution page for individual queries can you add the query SPID - on occasions such as blocking/stale session etc you need to find the query/last ran query by SPID rather than start/end time
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Add Cname as a connection string instead of instance name
RGM usually connects with the instance name it automatically pulls down via the WMIC commands it runs on the nodes -There may be times were you have set the systems up that all connection certificates used the CNAME set up rather than the instance name for connection
Adding the ability to replace the instance name with a CNAME for connection will allow RGM to connect to the server securely18 votes -
Suppress Notifications until turned back on
There are times where we are configuring and testing an instance or cluster and want to monitor it, but would like to prevent notifications being fired while keeping alerts - having the ability to suppress the notifications until we turn it back on would be handy and take less administration overhead than configuring the alerts for each instance/cluster
12 votes -
Add ability to monitor MongoDB instances on atlas
Though Atlas does supply its own monitoring tool - having the ability to have a single pane of glass for all services by having the ability to monitor MongoDB which are hosted on atlas within redgate would be beneficial
13 votes -
Blocking Process Alert to be based on Blocking Time
This idea has been posted before but marked as closed, so posting again. For blocking process alert, it would be good to have the option to setup the alert in a way where we can report on the duration when the first and last blocking happened and if it exceeds a certain threshold.
Let's say, we have set the threshold for 90 seconds and if there are three processes that have wait time of 30 seconds each, that totals to 90 seconds, we receive an alert. However, we don’t want to receive an alert for the 30 second blocked processes.…
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Azure Service Principal authentication (Client ID / Client Secret)
It would be highly beneficial for us if Redgate Base Monitor supported authentication via Azure Service Principals using Client ID and Client Secret across all Azure products, including Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
We are restricted to using Service Principals only and cannot rely on user-based authentication. Support for SPN authentication would allow us to fully automate the onboarding of new Azure SQL Databases and Managed Instances via Terraform, using our own modules, and register them in Redgate without any manual interaction. This would significantly improve scalability, consistency, and security in our Azure monitoring setup.
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Monitor SQL Fabric from Redgate Monitor
As our company leans into Microsoft Fabric, we'd love to continue utilizing Redgate's tools, but unfortunately, they're mostly incompatible. Our highest priority is the ability to monitor Fabric SQL from within Redgate Monitor, closely followed by Redgate Toolbelt functionality within SSMS. We love Redgate and we're moving into the future with Fabric. Please help us remain a dedicated customer and not have to look for additional tools. We love Redgate!
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Add multiple actions for alerts based on different conditions
It would be nice to be able to configure different actions for the same alert based on different criteria.
For example, with the SQL Job failure alert - It would be very useful to be able to have these alerts go to X email address if the job contains "DBA" in the job name, and the alert go to Y email address if the job doesn't contain that text in the job name (This is just a basic example, being able to configure multiple of these types of filters would be the goal).
Right now the only possible…
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Display running SQL text instead of full batch
Hi Team,
Currently, Active Sessions displays the full batch text instead of the exact running SQL statement. It would be significantly more valuable to show the specific executing query text.
Having immediate visibility into the exact query would allow us to quickly identify blocking, long-running, or resource-intensive statements without relying on additional tools or manual investigation. This would reduce troubleshooting time, speed up incident response, and improve overall performance monitoring efficiency.
I believe this enhancement would provide clear operational benefits for teams managing busy production environments. Thank you for considering it.
6 votes -
Monitor Postgres Read-Only Replica Query Performance
PostgreSQL read replicas (standby servers) operate in read-only mode and do not allow writes. Because Redgate Monitor relies on writing to the redgatemonitor repository database on each instance, it cannot collect query performance data from read replicas.
In our environment, read replicas handle a significant portion of reporting and read workload capacity. Without visibility into query performance on these replicas, we lack critical insight for troubleshooting and capacity planning.
While tools like pgNow can monitor read replicas without requiring local writes, they do not provide the historical performance data and trend analysis available in Redgate Monitor.
We are requesting support…
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Tracking Aborted Queries and Memory Grants in Redgate Monitor / Azure SQL Managed Instance
After contacting Red-Gate support, I understand that individual query monitoring for Azure Managed Instance is currently not supported nor on the roadmap. Is it possible to add this feature to an upcoming release of Red-Gate Monitor?
TL;DR Below
The article below mentions the ability to track cancelled or aborted queries. This would be particularly helpful for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Tracking Aborted Queries and Memory Grants in Redgate Monitor
https://www.red-gate.com/blog/tracking-aborted-queries-and-memory-grants-in-redgate-monitor• Cancelled or aborted queries – immediately see when a query fails to complete, whether due to timeouts, user cancellation, or connection issues
Query Executions in Redgate Monitor
https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/redgate-monitor/query-executions-in-redgate-monitor10 votes -
group similar queries
I have queries which are created by string concatenation in a legacy product.
These queries differ by some IDs in a IN clause.In SQL monitor, these queries are all shown as different queries in the "top queries" section.
I would like that all those similar queries are shown as one query in the "top queries" section so that I can better find long running/problematic queries.
11 votes -
Preserve license after the upgrade
During an in-place upgrade of Redgate Monitor, the license is lost. This poses a significant challenge for offline environments where internet access is restricted. As a result, Redgate Monitor ceases monitoring after the upgrade until a new permit file is generated and uploaded, leading to gaps in monitoring history.
This issue could be mitigated if Redgate allowed a short grace period of trial or honored the previous license during the transition.6 votes -
Analysis: allow disconnecting y-axis from 0
The base of the analysis chart is always, always 0.This is okay when looking at small scale metrics (e.g. user connections), but for large scale metrics (e.g. file size) the proportions become so large that any change is imperceptible. Good luck detecting that your 2 TB database is growing by a GB/day. I don't need to see that it wasn't 512, 1024, 1536, or 2048 GB.
It would be nice to have the option to disconnect the y-axis from 0. Ideally it would automatically scale to the range of the data in the window, with a little margin around it.
2 votes -
service now event creation
ServiceNow integration current creates incidents directly in ServiceNow. Due to corporate standards we aren't allowed to directly create incidents. All monitoring integrations to ServiceNow have to create "events", which are then mappen within ServiceNow to incidents (where applicable).
Please consider adding an option to create events instead of incidents.1 vote -
MCP server
add support for MCP server. I would be nice to ask AI question
3 votes -
Alert Notification, Critical Alerts able to perform phone / zoom / Teams call.
Critical alerts able to place a call via phone / zoom / Teams call, when the phone rings less chance of missing important alert. just trying to suggest method of improving notification of a critical alert. sooner we know the sooner we can do something about it.
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View the name of the responsible Query or Job in Teams notification,
View the name of the responsible Query or Job in Teams notification, The Microsoft Teams notifications are great. good way of being notified if something is wrong. This could be improved by providing the name of the long running query or name of job that is blocking. the View in Redgate Monitor button does not help when just on phone. it's great when your in the office. but if your monitoring out of hours.
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Select multiple groups for "latest alerts" sidebar
It would be great if we could select multiple groups in the latest alerts. For example, PostgreSQL Prod and PostgreSQL Dev/Test.
Background: We work in several subteams, such as Postgres and MSSQL. I would like to see only the latest alerts for PostgreSQL Prod and Test, and not for the other groups.And I don't want to switch the groups from PG Prod to PG dev.
3 votes
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