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Extend field width of Server Selector field on top of Dashboard to be the same width as the Drop Down
Go to Dashboard; Overview tab; drill down to one of the servers. On top of this next form (Server Host Metrics form) is the Server Selector field with a Drop Down list box. When you select the down arrow key to open the List Box the width of the List box is about twice the width of the Server Selector field. Is it possible to make the width of the Selector field the same as the drop down or make it user defined/variable? Right now it's around 27 chars. We have long server aliases/names so if extended, it will help…
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Record queries terminated by the client
We use an ADO client with a query timeout of 30s by default.
These queries are not being captured by SQL Monitor. If they were, it might highlight the cause of why they are taking so long.
For context, we have a query that regularly takes a couple of seconds to execute, but every hour or so exceeds the 30s timeout and we would really benefit from SQL Monitor to capture those to help diagnose why.
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Suppress Free Space monitor (Azure Hyperscale DB)
When using Azure Hyperscale DB - the DB auto grows - therefore the Free Space monitor needs to be silenced/ignored forever (except if you about to hit the max of 100TB!)
5 votes -
Alert for full filegroup
if a database is a fixed size (max size set), or if the db is initially set to be the full size of a disk, there is no alert to let us know that the database is full.
for instance - if T: drive contains tempdb (and only tempdb) and we've sized it to take the whole drive. we've done funky sizing and growth settings so we can get an alert when the db grows, but once its grown and the temp objects are cleared, we're unlikely to get another disk warning, because the DB will already be taking 100%…
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Be able to run a query (or powershell) in response to an alert
Be able to run a query (or powershell) in response to an alert.
This would automate some responses, but also want to be able to send the RESULT of a script in the email that goes out, ie Alert to say Schema changes have been made where the email actually includes the schema changes.11 votes -
Filter for Database with no Tlog backup
On the Estate->Backup page, it would be great to have an additional drop-down option for 'DBs without Tlog"
2 votes -
SQL Monitor Audit Trail
It would be nice to have an audit trail of changes in SQL Monitor. For example, if an alert is changed, a new instances is added/removed, or users are added or removed.
23 votes -
Add AND/OR conditions for disk alerts
We are using SQL Monitor to monitor disks and we also send these disk alerts to our NOC(24/7 monitor team) and when they receives an alert they are calling us on our On-Call service when outside office hours.
The alerts are not always relevant as the alert can be like for example:
Disk free space less than 5 % but actual space left is 300 GB, which is more than enough and no alert and phone call had to be triggered.We are trying to set custom disk alerts but as we have 1000+ disk alerts to configure it’s impossible…
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Utilize in SQL Monitor Analysis or Reports pages any SQL Server counter available in PERFMON.
For instance BRENT OZAR has an excellent method to diagnose memory pressure. The counter in use is SQLServer: Memory Manager – Memory Grants Pending which is not available.
If Memory Grants Pending is averaging over 0, queries can’t even start because they can’t get enough memory. You may have queries that have incorrect memory grants, or you may just desperately need more RAM.
30 votes -
Monitor Table Growth and get projections
It would be nice if in the Estate tab under disk usage, we could dig deeper and see table growth and projected growth over time.
19 votes -
Job Duration Unusual: ability to set different thresholds for different jobs
Some jobs that take a few minutes, others routinely take a longer time to run, and so it would be useful to set different thresholds for different jobs.
The current set up allows for excluding jobs from the alert, but offers no way of still monitoring those jobs.
I only want to exclude the jobs from monitoring, only if its possible to add in another alert just for them.
The documentation seems to hint that you can configure different alerts for different jobs, but all I've found is the high medium low thresholds, and this isn't the same.
This combined…
2 votes -
Ability to export backup history detail for providing audit information easily.
possibilities I can think of that might help to add are each backup having it's own export button when the backup history graph is expanded out, including the backup history on the current excel sheet or possibly having a summary report for it in the Reports section
1 vote -
I would like alert sounds.
Every product I have used in the past allowed for an Alert sound that you could turn off and on. I get that this is annoying to some people but for certain alerts I like to have a sound on them because I am not LOOKING at RedGate or my email, but I always have RedGate open. So setting any High alerts to a certain sound let everybody in the office know that there was an issue.
3 votes -
Suport for Azure SQL Hyperscale
Add support for the new Azure SQL Hyperscale PaaS solution
109 votes -
Resizing Reports
It would be quite good if you could edit the size of the report and stretch to make it easier to read. Currently (may be an option to) the data over a 7 days period for example is condensed.
1 vote -
DatabaseName custom message parameter addition for Custom Webhook messages
I would like to share with the developers the alerts for the different databases we have in the same server instance. I noticed for custom webhook messages. It looks like the option was there (like monitoredEntity.azureSqlDatabaseName).
One of the SQL instances we have is a shared instance with multiple databases so the owner of the database can know exactly what database is failing
Right now I have the following custom message
{
"text": "{{alert-severity}}: An alert of type \"{{alert-name}}\" has been \"{{alert-status}}\" for {{alert-target-name}}.\r\nVisit {{alert-url}} for details."
}
Where I cannot specify which database is that alert for. I consider…
1 vote -
Configure job duration unusual alerts to ignore negative variances
Typically (although there are exceptions) I'm not concerned if a job has a high negative variance compared to baseline. One other way to satisfy this would be another suggestion already in here, allowing for more configurable options such as a floor/ceiling variance .
4 votes -
Ignore failing jobs using regex
the config for JOB DURATION UNUSUAL alerts allows the use of regex to filter the jobs to ignore.
this functionality would be very useful for FAILING JOBS alerts
6 votes -
Automatic failover when GEO replication is set up for PaaS servers
It would be great to have a feature to monitor automatic failover when GEO replication is set up between PaaS servers.
It is quite useful information to understand if failover occurs.
4 votes -
Monitor individual CPU cores and not just avg CPU as a whole
AVG CPU is not enough of an indication of how things are going - There could be an entire numa node maxed at 100% while other nodes are almost idle and it will drag the avg down.
As per here: https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/162141#Comment_162141
6 votes
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