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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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.…
24 votes -
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.
15 votes -
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!
15 votes -
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…
19 votes -
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 securely9 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
4 votes -
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.
4 votes -
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 -
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 -
Monitor MySQL Database Instance on Windows Server hosts
https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions?query=Monitor%20MySQL%20Databases%20on%20Windows%20Server%20hostsCouldn't see it anywhere but Monitoring MySQL\MariaDB Database on a Windows Server Host is something is in development or on your roadmap?
I work in the Social Housing sector (Not for Profit) and just about every other housing association we collaborate with use applications running off a MySQL back end - hosted on a windows server.
These database back ends (along with the application) are primarily supported by ISV vendor - but they actively encourage us to monitor the database. We already have already invested in Redgate monitor for our our On Prem SQL server hosts and it would be…
6 votes -
Schema name in the Indexes tab and Top procedures tab on the overview page
In SQL server it is possible to have indexes with the same name on different tables. It is also possible to have tables with the same name on different schemas. Therefore, you can have indexes with the same names on tables with the same names on different schemas. The same is true for stored procedures.
Since there is no data on the index and stored procedure's schema in the Indexes tab and Top procedures tab on the overview page, one does not know which exact SP or index is in the table.
17 votes -
Link to alert within Teams notification
I would like to see a direct link to redgate monitor alert within the teams notification. At the moment I have to search for the alert in the WebUI manually instead of clicking a direct link like it is in a mail notification with "View full alert details" button.
5 votes -
We learned from this old request that network utilization is monitoring in full duplex, therefore the maximum utilization is 200% instead of
We learned from a support ticket (and experience) that network utilization is monitoring in full duplex, therefore the maximum utilization is 200% instead of 100%. Unfortunately, I'm unable to modify our monitoring configuration to have thresholds above 100%. In a perfect world, network utilization would be split into two alerts, one for send and one for receive, this way we could manage the utilization limits separately. But if the perfect solution is not possible, then we'd at least like to be able to enter thresholds above 100% so we can alert at 150% utilization (for example).
3 votes -
Re-Check an alert
It would be helpful to have a "ReCheck Monitor" button for all of our alerts in Monitor. We have some checks that are only performed once per day. When those checks create alerts, we make quick work of resolution, but the alert doesn't clear for a long time (next day). It would be very helpful to have a button to force an immediate re-check. This would validate the fix and get us back to an all-green status quickly.
3 votes -
Improved Notification Methodology
It would be much to our advantage if notifications were their own object that could be tied to an object and inherited. This would allow us to tie the same notification to multiple alarms and make changes to all associated objects at once. Separating the notification from the alert would allow us flexibility with much simpler notification management. This feature would also allow us to look at things backwards to determine which alerts are tied to a given notification target.
Additionally, with a separate notifcation object we would gain the ability to have a different notifcation tied to Critical alerts…
3 votes -
be able to extract all alerts at once rather than extracting for individual alerts via API
Redgate Monitor API currently allows users to extract alert details for individual alert types. We need an API endpoint that can extract alert details for all alert types instead of calling the API multiple times.
10 votes -
Pass tags through the webhook json
I would like something like {{Target-tag}} to pass through the webhook, this will allow us to better spilt the alerts to the correct team on the other side so that 1 team isn't having to get all the alerts, but using other integrations and wrokflows with something like a tag we can spilt the alerts to different teams based on target and severity, but also with shared servers the tags will allow us to spilt those alerts as well.
3 votes -
Support Individual query monitoring in Azure SQL Database
This sounds like a useful feature. I wish it was available for my environment.
7 votes
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