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  1. Configurable Alert Thresholds for notification alerts

    I would like to suggest a new alerting feature for Redgate Monitor: the ability to configure notification thresholds based on the number of consecutive occurrences of an event.

    For example, for SQL Server Agent Job failures, it would be useful to define a threshold so that an alert is triggered only after a job has failed a specified number of consecutive times (e.g., 3 or 5 failures), rather than generating a notification for every individual failure.

    This enhancement could help reduce alert fatigue and notification noise, especially in environments where occasional transient failures may occur and do not require immediate…

    30 votes
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  2. Enhanced Index Usage

    We love the long-term index usage data. We'd love it even more with additional enhancements like below:

    1. Availability via Redgate Monitor MCP interface. We have AI processes that would greatly benefit from access to this long-term trove of important data. The ability to pull index usage data for a given object during a defined timeframe would be ideal. Of course, all the ideas below would apply to this too. ;)

    2. Separation of indexes by defnition, not just name. Sometimes an index is rebuilt with a different definition that affects how the index works. It would be good to have a…

    9 votes
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  3. Add tags to cluster and nodes

    Currently you can only tag instance level objects, being able to tag clusters and nodes would greatly help us with our downtime automation, among other things. Not going to go into great detail, but being able to tag all objects in the tool the same way you can with the instances would have some far reaching uses for a lot of people I would think.

    Related support request with details:

    https://productsupport.red-gate.com/hc/en-us/requests/365402

    6 votes
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  4. Allow ServiceNow notifications to be filtered by alert severity

    We are using the native ServiceNow integration in Redgate Monitor to automatically create and resolve ServiceNow alerts.

    Currently, ServiceNow notifications are generated regardless of the alert severity. We would like to be able to configure a severity threshold for ServiceNow notifications, in the same way as for other notification channels.

    For example, we would like to configure the ServiceNow integration to create alerts only for High severity events, with options such as:

    All alert levels
    High and Medium
    High only

    This functionality is particularly important for ServiceNow integrations, where every notification may result in a ticket or operational event. Sending…

    9 votes
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  5. Add support for Oracle instances running on Windows Server

    Currently we are having few instances of Oracle 19 installed on Windows Server. We can't monitor this since only linux is supported.

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  6. Security team needs a report how SQL instance compliance has been met

    In the Security -> Server Compliance:
    Need the capacity to email or subscribe the "SQL Server Compliance Report (csv) which displays drilldown the SQL Server Compliance values of the Server property in the selected Server Compliance template for each instance (tabs).

    There is export button, but it doesn't have the option to drill down the status for each instance. Also, it is not subscribable.

    4 votes
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  7. Lead blocker/blocking alert

    I'd like to request an enhancement to Redgate Monitor's blocking alerts.

    Currently, alerts are triggered when the total blocking time across all blocked sessions exceeds a threshold. For example, if three separate blocking events last 20, 25, and 30 seconds, an alert may fire because the combined blocking time exceeds 60 seconds.

    Instead, I would like the option to alert on a lead blocker that has been continuously blocking other sessions for a specified duration. For example, if a single session blocks others for more than 60 seconds, the alert would trigger.

    This would reduce noise from multiple short-lived blocking…

    2 votes
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  8. Changes to Alerts when VCenter monitoring is interrupted

    Today's RG Monitor includes vCenter integration for monitoring resources. This is a great feature that we really enjoy using. But, when there is a problem with vCenter or it is otherwise unavailable for maintenance, we get a generic internal monitoring error for every single instance we have monitored. This creates a lot of unnecessary and unuseful noise that needs to be investigated. We'd much prefer to see a custom alert specific to the VCenter object. The alert could be disabled for individual servers if we didn't want their status affected by vcenter status. Alternatively, the alert could attach to a…

    3 votes
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  9. 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.

    21 votes
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  10. Add or customize detail columns in "Top waits" and "Top queries" grid

    In "Top queries" and "Top waits" i need to see or be able to configure "Wait time", "Login name" and "Program Name" as additional columns in the queries grid.

    For Instance in Top waits, if selecting a wait like "SOS SCHEDULER YIELD" I want/need to see how much each query suffers on this wait, and of course order by wait time, too.
    Further it's always interesting to see at a glance which applications or logins are affected from this particular wait

    3 votes
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  11. log_reuse_wait_desc value is captured and stored within the database page (click on a DB in the databases section to get there)

    logreusewait_desc value is captured and stored within the database page (click on a DB in the databases section to get there)

    would help investigating why a log grows

    6 votes
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  12. Update should keep ;MultiSubnetFailover=true in the connection string

    Currently, SQL Monitor DB is on the SQL Server cluster, in the availability group.

    When I'm doing the application update, the update process reads old connection string (<add name="DataConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=ops-sqlmonitor-ag.ad.npspot.com,6803;Initial Catalog=OPS-SQLMonitor;User ID=RedGateSQLMonitor;Password=***************; Max Pool Size=500;Connect Timeout=5;Encrypt=False;Trust Server Certificate=True;Packet Size=4096;MultiSubnetFailover=true"/>) from the config file, but when it writes it back, it has removed the ";MultiSubnetFailover=true" -part.

    This means the connection to the DB may not work because DNS returns multiple IP addresses, and the first IP address isn't always the primary node.

    4 votes
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  13. Backup Monitors Do Not Work Properly with Contained Always On Availability Groups

    The built in 3 monitors check the local MSDB database, in a contained AAG, this is stored in the clustered version of MSDB that is accessible via the listener (or <AG Name>_msdb).You have to disable all these monitors on all systems that run contained AAG, as it falsely thinks there are no backups when there actually is.

    Also, if there are other monitors that rely on msdb or master I would be concerned about them not working as intended as well.

    3 votes
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  14. Expose Additional Process Details in Monitor

    I run multiple SQL FCIs on multi-node WSFCs, but Redgate Monitor makes it difficult to see which instance is the highest CPU since the process names are all sqlservr.exe.  If it could expose info like the command line or service detail it would give additional information to quickly determine the sql server instance causing the resource contention.

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  15. Assign individual groups/users the ability to put individual servers/instances into maintenance

    I would like to have the ability to assign individual groups/users the ability to put individual servers/instances into maintenance without making them members of the Administrator role.

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  16. Add support for monitoring SQL Server on Windows within your Docker Linux installation or add a Redgate monitor Docker for windows image

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  17. 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

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  18. option to Enable AI on selected SQL instances and Logging AI activity

    it would be very useful to control which SQL instances have AI enabled. Perhaps an opt out or opt in under Monitored Servers

    Even if data is said not to be sent from prem to LLM, enabling logging of the AI traffic per SQL instance, would go a long way ifor management buy in

    6 votes
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  19. Executive report

    We just acquired the redgate monitor solution and we have onboarded our SQL Servers in there.

    I would like to present to upper management charts like:

    • Overall Uptime considering all my instances (not by each instance)
    • Overall downtime
    • Top n servers with restarts
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  20. Monitor sessions and stats on an Oracle Active Data Guard (open read only)

    Currently, if you set up an Oracle Active Data Guard database in Red Gate, it detects that it is a standby database and doesn't gather any usage, session, activity, or other data from it. However since the database is open for read, there is session data, performance data, and other metrics created that are unique to this database. Basically, the request is to monitor an Active Data Guard database as a standalone database (with the caveat that it is read only).

    If Red Gate could gather those stats without requiring sysdba privileges or connection to the primary that would be…

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