Suggestions
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Include SQL comments in Top Queries search
I use Entity Framework Core to interact with a SQL Server database, which comes with the ability to "tag" queries with extra searchable information for troubleshooting purposes.
This extra information is in the form of SQL comments, like so:
-- SPARK: PartyRepository.PartySearch
It would be very valuable to be able to search for this data, but unfortunately it appears that comments are excluded from Top Queries search, even though the data is there in SQL Monitor query data.
8 votes -
Additional option on the Alert Suppression Windows
It would be great to have an additional option on the Alert Suppression Windows to have the ability to only stopping sending notification for new alerts and continue to send the notification for the end of alerts
I guess something like "Notification for new Alerts only (alerts will still be raised)"
The idea would be to receive the end of alert notifications for alerts that were ongoing when the alert suppression window started13 votes -
Add CPU time to Individual query monitoring
Should be great if we can get CPU time column added to the new Query executions tab.
CPU time is in addition to logical reads/writes important when looking and performance of the different queries.
9 votes -
View top queries, stored procs, top waits, index usage at estate level on Azure SQL
You can currently only view the top stats at DB level for Azure SQL. We run a multi-tenanted SaaS application where all DB's are identical across the estate, so to be able to compare offending stored procs, indexes etc. across the board would be incredibly helpful.
4 votes -
DataRetention setting and Performance troubleshooting data per technology because needs may be different
Possibility define DataRetention setting and Performance troubleshooting data per technology because needs may be different between sqlserver, postgres , mysql, etc, and improve disk space of seacrh engine queries.
7 votes -
Grant access to the Security Auditing features to a specific user role or user group
As a DBA, I wish to grant access to the Security Auditing features (Permissions changes and Configuration compliance) to our security team. I do not wish the security team to have full administrator access to the Redgate Monitor installation as they are not DBAs and neither interested in nor responsible for any other parts in Redgate Monitor.
At the moment, only Redgate Monitor administrators have access to the above enterprise security features in Redgate Monitor. From a separation-of-duty perspective, the security team should not have full access as administrators to the Redgate Monitor installation.
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Deploy the latest API when updating Redgate Monitor
I would like when installing the latest version of Redgate Monitor to have an option for it to deploy the latest version of the API as well to a location. The last few times I have done the install I have not updated the API right away as it been a set and forget thing. Comes the evening when it runs it fails due to the versions not being the same.
I have checked within the Program Files and 2/3 of the files are not there. (RedgateMonitor.psd1 and RedgateMonitor.psm1), so I cannot just have it import via that way.4 votes -
Data retention - auto shrink if SQL
Recently engaged with redgate support about this and was advised to raise on here.
When changing data retention settings within Monitor and reducing the timeframe, it does free up space within the database but it isn't released.
Adding a routine within Monitor to run a shrinkfile against the database would be an ideal solution, but even adding a button/form within Monitor to set up a SQL agent job to do this in a standardised way would be fantastic as a quality of life, as if you're reducing the retention it's usually going to be because of disk space constraints.
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Search by Query hash in Top queries
As discussed in https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/91306/search-by-query-hash-in-top-queries/p1?new=1
it would be very useful to be able to search by Query hash in Top queries.Scenarios:
- for complex (and parametrized) queries it may not be enough to be searched by QueryText, DatabaseName or ParentObjectName;
- if queries impact is also investigated and tracked in external systems the QueryHash may be (the only common) field to quickly identify and find that query in Redgate Monitor.6 votes -
flexible disk configuration
Currently the configuration for disk space monitoring in “RedGate Monitor” only gives the option to check on the number of bytes that is still free on the disk (in GB or MB).
Ideally one should check on the number of bytes in combination with the % free space.
The reason for this is that percentage hugely differs depending on the total size of the disk. On a small disk one would like to extend the disk when it is 80% FULL, where as on a much bigger disk, 20% space might still be many GB’s and to early to extend…4 votes -
Monitor an Azure SQL Database geo-replicated secondary database
We have geo-replication set up for many of our production databases, and we have some processes and users that use that for executing read-only queries. We have alerts set up in Azure Monitor for simple things like when CPU % exceeds 95% for more than 2 minutes. We would like to use Redgate Monitor to identify the workload that is causing that (Top SQL). However, when we try to add the secondary server, Redgate Monitor cannot find any databases in it.
4 votes -
Track Aborted Sessions
The ability to view aborted sessions, either an alert or space on the overview page in a similar way to the TOP 10 queries.
Attached is the offering from SolarWinds.
8 votes -
Add additional metrics for Latency, Failover, queries categories for MongoDB
• Replicaset metrics around latency and failovers…etc. Like SQL Server.
• Something to track queries performing large scans vs seeks.
• Would be nice if the alerts (even if duplicated were broken out by platform. They are shown by SQL which I get is your primary offering, but just saying also postgressql vs seeing its PostgressSQL on Linux or MongoDB on Linux and change the alert offering to reflect those in a separate grouping like SQL.
1 vote -
Additional Overview Tab Suggestions
• OS configuration (how many sockets/cores and Memory are allocated) * SQL Server, Mongo and PostgresSQL environments Right now there are only %’s, I want to see of what.
• MongoDB Memory configuration I see SQLs but Mongo is missing. i.e. WiredTiger Cache settings
• ReplicaSet information for Mongo, along with who is the primary, secondaries and where are the secondaries seeding from, and the status.
1 vote -
Improvements to Alert Notifications when you have multiple alert thresholds
You can configure alerts in Regdate Monitor to have different thresholds (low, medium, high). The problem is that all notifications have to go to the same email address(es).
We'd suggest an improvement to allow diffent notification methods for each level. For examples, send low alerts go to one email address and medium/high go to a different email address.
This would allow us to send the more critical alerts via OpsGenie/Jira.
3 votes -
Trend Analysis and Forecasting for Azure SQL Database capacity
A previous feature suggestion, https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11122308-forecast-and-plan-disk-database-capacity, was completed in 2018. However, it does not include storage for Azure SQL Databases or Elastic Pools. While we can alert on this, we get no trend analysis or forecasting.
Selecting All Disks and All Groups on the Estate | Disk usage page gets us "No disks match your filter criteria."
2 votes -
Add Unallocated Disk Space % to the History view for a database
For Azure SQL Databases, this view currently has check boxes for DTU, CPU, Data IO, and Log IO, which are all checked by default. It would be great to add a check box for Space, which would not be checked by default and would show Unallocated Disk Space %.
1 vote -
Set default Redgate Monitor time zone
My Redgate Monitor server is on a server with the time zone set to UTC. When I open a Redgate Monitor on that server I get all the times in UTC, which is great.
When I open a Redgate Monitor on my local computer, the GUI shows the times adjusted for my timezone.
Since my team is monitoring from different locations in different time zones, we get different times depending on the timezone.
I would like an option in Redgate Monitor configuration to easily set a default time zone so all the users can see the same time zone.
9 votes -
Monitoring of Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
With the introduction of monitoring of MysQL it should also be great if we can get monitoring of Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server.
3 votes -
Allow customisation of query execution threshold for Individual query monitoring
Individual query monitoring is currently either only catching or possible only displaying queries longer then 5 seconds. Should be great if it was possible to customise this threshold.
5 votes
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