Suggestions
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Support 3rd party HA tools such as DxEnterprise
3rd party HA tools such as DxEnterprise allow for failover of a virtual host (VHOST) from one Server (virtual or physical) to another in the event something happens to the VHOST. In the failover process, it will pull all of the associated disks along with the VHOST to the new machine it is going to be hosted on. If RedGate SQL Monitor is configured to monitor the physical server, things work well until you need to fail over. Then you get alerts of disk changing from 20% free to 0 bytes free and the failed-over SQL instance(s) are no longer…
3 votes -
Add development machines without a license.
You should be able to add development machines at no additional cost if you already have a production license. If you do not have a license for the development instance then the features can be scaled back to only allow you to view alerts.
34 votes -
Alert for Available Space on Backup Disk
There is a configurable alert for when disk space assigned to a logical disk reaches a threshold but not an alert for backup disk assigned to a disk other than the logical disk.
3 votes -
Configure Alert-Ended messages at alert type level
in the global settings I can configure, that I want to receive deescalation mails when an alert ended (e.g. CPU went back to normal, Server available again ...).
For many alerts this makes sense, but for other alerts not so much or not for everybody (e.g. deadlock alerts, the custom failed-logins alert, job-failed alerts...).
So it would be nice, if I could configure this (as most other options) at least at alert type level or better down on group / server / database etc.
5 votes -
I am making reports in the Red Gate SQL Monitor. I am organizing them by databases in AGs. This is difficult because when selecting what dat
I am making reports in the Red Gate SQL Monitor. I am organizing them by databases in AGs. This is difficult because when selecting what database to monitor it is either ALL on server or an individual one. I have to put a new line for each database I want. Could you please also include "ALL in AG xxx". This way I do not have to add a line for each database in the AG I am monitoring, and if I add or take away a database from that AG then it will automatically be done on the report.
1 vote -
Include Top N Worst Performing Stored Procedures and Functions
At my organization, we do a lot of tuning at the stored procedure and function level.
I would like a tab similar to the existing top 10 queries tab, that lists the CPU utilization, memory utilization and IO consumption of the top 10 worst performing stored procedures, and another tab that lists the top 10 worst performing functions. For each of the fields I would like to see both the totals, and the percent of total during the specified time period.
This will allow us to identify the stored procedures and functions to tune, and once tuned, it will allow…
15 votes -
Add option to make Reports public - i.e. available without having to log in
..so that i can add a publicly (internally..) available all-in-one dashboard view to my NOC TV screens, presenting all relevant information at a glance!
27 votes -
Baseline data within report graphs
It would be useful if I can include baseline data (as in Analysis section) within reports and their graphs.
3 votes -
Add free-format text when emailing an Alert
When I email a DEADLOCK to a team member familiar with, or responsible for, the functional area, for them to get a "blind" DEADLOCK email, bearing no introductory narrative, saying nothing about frequency, or suggesting that mitigation code be added where known to not be present, means I have to email to myself, compose the extras, and forward.
The ability to add a header-block to the email, with a polite sign-off, is more likely to engage, than for the recipient to have to start asking unnecessary questions.
3 votes -
ignore events triggered from SIEM vulnerability scanners..
when we run a vulnerability scan on our SQL servers we get a lot of redgate alerts, i know you can setup to ignore certain alerts and have a maintenance window but ignoring the alerts isn't an option (what if its actually a hack) and the maintenance window is dangerous for obvious reasons.
3 votes -
see sessions from sys.dm_exec_requests in top 10 queries
I never see commands like BACKUP DATABASE or ALTER INDEX in top 10 queries and got the message from support that the information is taken from sys.dmexecquerystats
As it is now it is hard to track down where heavy I/O comes from if it is for example index maintenance or backup.
I think RedGate should record all commands from sys.dmexec_requests and join in the execution plans where they exist and other stats if needed17 votes -
Log Alert Action Activity
Please store activity such as who clears alerts and when for the alert details.
Also, it'd be nice to have an overall auditing of who changed what when on various other parts of the website.
3 votes -
Report Poller Error - turn off the PFUR
There is an administrative event error in windows event log occurring every minute or less. This error is unrelated to report poller and is product feature usage reporting (PFUR) unsuccessfully reporting back to redgate. I have been assured this message is harmless, but I think anything that is happening every minute on the server is bound to have some detrimental effect.
Please add a feature to turn off this usage reporting.
3 votes -
Wider parameters for reports
Incorporate ability to run reports for a group of monitored servers for a longer duration. For example: Report of unreachable status on 12 different servers for the past year.
1 vote -
Add custom alerts with exiting out of the box metrics
I would like to create custom alterts on existing out of the box metrics. I want to set an alert if for example PLE is going under a certein threshold. Without creating an additional custom metric.
4 votes -
Alternate color background on dashboard server groups
Could you add some alternating color background to different server groups on the overview dashboard so the swimlanes are much easier to distinguish
1 vote -
Add "When File Grew" Drilldown to the new Estate page, Disk Usage
The new Estate page is already proving useful, but today not as much as it could be...
tempdb LOG suddenly grew to twice its normal size, and we have yet to trace why. It may have gone unnoticed but for SQM issuing a LOW DISK SPACE Alert!
Please add a drilldown for DB files that show the times, and quantities, for growth. A sparkline chart would help, too, as a visual cue. for the last 30-days, perhaps.
Thanks for continuously making SQM more useful.
3 votes -
Monitor Backups LSNs in Always On Availability Groups
With Always on Availability Groups, Error is... Log backup for database "XXX" on a secondary replica failed because the last backup LSN from the primary database is greater than the current local redo LSN. And SQL Monitor cannot check for this. I would like to see if SQL monitor can catch it before the Azure Backup Vault fails to backup every 15 minutes.
3 votes -
date format
I'd like to have an ability to set date format according to the country where the monitored SQL server is in, e.g. USA where date format is MM/dd/yyyy vs UK as dd/MM/yyyy. Also, why not to read and set date format off of the monitored server? Please make it configurable and country compliant so to speak..
Thanks,
Yuriy4 votes -
A column with end of extended support in Estate
In addition to the column with end of mainstream support it would be nice to have a column with end of extended support in the Estate tab
13 votes
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