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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OpenID Connect client certificate or LDAPS
My company does not support OpenID "only client secret" and requests that Redgate Monitor use Client Certificate when authenticating users with Entra. Can you implement Client Certificate Support? Alternatively, how about to expand LDAP implementation to utilize SSL?
3 votes -
Show Estate Groups in the "For" Dropdowns in Reports
In the Reports section, there is a "For" dropdown that allows you to select specific instances or "Everything". It would be helpful to be able to select a Groups of instances on the report or individual tiles within the report. These groups are setup in Configuration > Estate > Groups.
For example, you could group your servers into Production/Staging/Dev, then you'd be able to setup a report that only shows Production metrics/issues.
3 votes -
Custom Queries in Reports or Provide Queries to make own Reports
I'd like to be able to either paste in my own queries to build a report from (a la PowerBI) or, better yet, be able to access some of the code for your existing queries so I can make custom reports in PowerBI. (For instance, the Longest Running Queries summary tile is extremely limited at the moment, if I had the code I could quickly make it in PowerBI and make it do what I wanted.
I understand its Red-Gate code and therefore you'd want to keep it to yourselves, but it would deeply expand the reporting features and make…4 votes -
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 -
Allow the reports to use all the data my retention policy allows.
Generating reports seems to limit it to 30 days of data. For trending we would like to use all the data our retention policy allows. Not sure why there is a limit.
6 votes -
Alerts should configurable to repeat until an issue is resolved
We'd like the option for alerts to repeat until an issue is resolved. For instance, we may have a custom alert to tell us when a DBCC CheckDB hasn't been performed in >24hrs. For that we'd perform the check once per day and expect to get an alert every day that the problem continues. Without the alert recurring it's very easy for it to slip through the cracks and get missed.
Another example is blocking. We have some databases where we monitor blocking via SQL Agent and when a block occurrs for 1m or more, we send emails every 30s…
9 votes -
Analytics Dashboard Selection Parameters
On the Analysis Dashboard there are lots and lots of Metrics. Not all of them are Availbale for ervery RDBMS. It would be good to have switches to narrow down the Metrics to SQL-Server or Postgres Parameters, e.g. if you swich on Postgres only Metrics for Postgres Servers are shown.
3 votes -
Want Estate page to report patch correctly for GDR only instances.
In the SQL Server versions page under Estate, Redgate Monitor checks for the “Latest available update” for each SQL instance. It compares the instance level with the latest patch released on the CU-path for the instance version and sets the Status column as appropriate, flagging where a patch is missing, be that CU or CU+GDR.
I would like an option to set specific SQL instances to be on the GDR-only pathway and have Redgate Monitor check and provide accurate last GDR patch and status detail for those too.
Without this change, GDR-path instances can show as "update needed" (yellow) in…
1 vote -
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 started16 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.
15 votes -
Security auditing
Monitor SQL Server login and database user activity to identify unused or anomalous accounts. Supports security audits, enforces the Principle of Least Privilege (POLP), and helps retire or restrict dormant or misused accounts.
The tool will collect and analyze login usage data across all servers and databases. It will:
Report accounts that have not been used within a configurable time period.
Identify accounts active in unexpected contexts (e.g., unauthorized hostnames or outside normal business hours).
Allow administrators to define thresholds or parameters for expected usage and generate alerts when violations occur.
2 votes -
that DevOps team that can only monitor their own database can also suspend them without having administrator rights
at the moment when people have administrator rights within Redgate Monitor they can suspend their databases but also all other databases we monitor. we would like to be able to grant teams rights to only be able to suspend the databases that they use and have rights to see within Redgate Monitor.
3 votes -
Within the Reporting option, allow 'Alert Summary' tile the ability to select a individual servers
Within the Reporting option, allow 'Alert Summary' tile the ability to select a individual servers within an AlwaysOn cluster. Currently you can only select the cluster name.
1 vote -
Simplify alerts without mentioning product names like PostgreSQL
Few alerts in Redgate Monitor ends with "(SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)".
We don't use PostgreSQL and don't plan to do it. Would be nice to turn off that feature permanently so that, for example message like “Database unavailable (SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)” shown as “Database unavailable”2 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.
5 votes -
Filtering on a Postgres Aurora Cluster based on Node
When adding a Aurora Postgres Cluster to be monitored, if it has multiple nodes, say a reader/writer. Can we get a feature that will show only the metrics related to that specific node. Say I want to see only the CPU/Memory/Throughput for the writer node only and vice versa for the reader node.
1 vote -
Tracked queries only available to admins
Tracked queries are only available for Administrators. Would it be possible to adjust the permission for Standard users to allow for this feature? At the moment we are forced to assign admin roles more broadly than we’d like because of insufficient granularity of permissions.
And this feature (especially if combined with some metadata as highlighted in https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/46675642-ability-to-add-notes-to-tracked-queries ) is a shame to not allow standard users to utilize.3 votes -
Add custom banner to the logon page
Basic authentication is sufficient for simple installations for few users. But security recommendations require a custom banner be displayed at the logon page. It will be nice if Redgate Monitor can do that without using OpenID or other external authentication methods.
1 vote -
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.10 votes
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