Suggestions
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Extend Configuration list for configuration change alert
We get a lot of configuration change alerts from our Postgres clusters like:
synchronousstandbynames: Changed from ANY 1 ("xxx-postgres-1","xxx-postgres-3","xxx-postgres-2") to ANY 1 ("xxx-postgres-1","xxx-postgres-2","xxx-postgres-3")
It would be great if the list for custom rules could be extended with this setting so we can ignore changes to it or even support adding custom names (so you don't have to add each and every setting known)
1 vote -
Ability to see the deadlock graph in email alert
Today, the deadlock alerts for MS SQL Server instances are a pain to read because of the deadlock graph XML within. I would like to either see the deadlock graph (prerendered on the server as an image) or a more readability summary instead of the XML
1 vote -
Allow Creation of time series charts based on alerts raised
There are times where you have an alerts such as low ple on a heavy use server, this will take several remedial measures to fix - having the ability to create time series charts showing amount of alerts raised over time for any particular alert on a particular server for a specified time frame would be helpful in assessing how affective any remedial actions are
7 votes -
Ability to monitor the execution of custom monitors and see history.
Would like to see when my custom monitors ran as well as the outcome. Particularly when testing, I'd like to check on the status. As a bonus, I'd love to be able to click a button and trigger and ad-hoc check at any time.
3 votes -
View the name of the responsible Query or Job in Teams notification,
View the name of the responsible Query or Job in Teams notification, The Microsoft Teams notifications are great. good way of being notified if something is wrong. This could be improved by providing the name of the long running query or name of job that is blocking. the View in Redgate Monitor button does not help when just on phone. it's great when your in the office. but if your monitoring out of hours.
3 votes -
Add multiple actions for alerts based on different conditions
It would be nice to be able to configure different actions for the same alert based on different criteria.
For example, with the SQL Job failure alert - It would be very useful to be able to have these alerts go to X email address if the job contains "DBA" in the job name, and the alert go to Y email address if the job doesn't contain that text in the job name (This is just a basic example, being able to configure multiple of these types of filters would be the goal).
Right now the only possible…
19 votes -
Display running SQL text instead of full batch
Hi Team,
Currently, Active Sessions displays the full batch text instead of the exact running SQL statement. It would be significantly more valuable to show the specific executing query text.
Having immediate visibility into the exact query would allow us to quickly identify blocking, long-running, or resource-intensive statements without relying on additional tools or manual investigation. This would reduce troubleshooting time, speed up incident response, and improve overall performance monitoring efficiency.
I believe this enhancement would provide clear operational benefits for teams managing busy production environments. Thank you for considering it.
6 votes -
Access custom metrics via the Enterprise API
We need to visualize metrics on central dashboards - the Enterprise API is PERFECT for that - except it currently does not support access to custom metrics.
Custom metrics are one of the most powerful things Redgate Monitor has - we really need the ability to access ALL of our information outside of the Redgate tool itself.
2 votes -
A Postgres 'monitor' that can't track blocking is not fit for purpose
We bought licenses for our Postgres RDS instances off the back of good experience with SQL Server. Wow are we disappointed. The glaring lack of something so basic as the ability to alert on blocking sums it up, a scenario made even worse by the fact that I am able to make custom metrics and alerts for this (just though, they're very limited).
Feels like the increasing breadth of dB platforms available means the quality is suffering.1 vote -
To have more granular filter options for historical query investigation
After selecting an instance from the main Overview screen and scrolling down to the bottom to select a specific database, I would like Redgate Monitor to be able to:
1) Provide the option to filter further to the database schema if desired.
2) Irrespective of what is selected above, see at least the top 100 Maximum Results in the small drop-down box instead of being limited to 50.
3) Irrespective of what is selected above, see more information about the originator of the query - i.e. user, login, application, host name etc.1 vote -
Enhancement Request – SQL Server Licensing Page
The SQL Server Licensing page should take into account the licensing model of monitored SQL Server instances. For example, Azure SQL Server VMs running under a Pay-As-You-Go licensing model should be identified and optionally excluded from the license requirement calculations.
If the purpose of the page is to help customers understand how many SQL Server licenses they need to purchase or maintain, consumption-based instances should be clearly highlighted and treated differently from instances covered by traditional licensing.
Otherwise, the licensing figures may be misleading, as Pay-As-You-Go workloads do not contribute to the customer's on-premises or bring-your-own-license requirements. Adding this distinction…
3 votes -
Enhancement Request - Allow Redgate Monitor built-in report the option to suppress sending blank reports
When using Redgate Monitor's built-in report options.
Reports menu
-> Add a new report
-> Add Tile
-> Tile type
-> Summary Tile
-> Summary Tile
-> Logon Failures.When scheduling a report to send an email, if there are no logon failures, the report is still sent blank. It would be a great feature to have a way to suppress sending a blank report/email if there are no logon failures.
3 votes -
Incremental Image Creation and Deduplicated Storage
This is a formal customer-specific product enhancement from NTI requesting a significant architectural update to the Redgate Cloning platform. NTI utilises this solution extensively across a complex environment. As data volumes grow, the 'build from scratch' nature of the current Data Image creation process has become a critical bottleneck. This request seeks a design update that enables incremental image updates and deduplication to reduce the daily processing window.
1 vote -
Be able to send the SQL Audit data to a SIEM tool
The existing SQL Audit information in Redgate Monitor is an invaluable amount of security information which can be useful for Security professionals who use a SIEM tool such as SentinelOne. Currently Redgate Monitor allows us to export. It would be great to see this as a feature.
1 vote -
Raise alerts based on backup size
I'd like to be able to detect if differential and log backups are becoming too large. This could indicate that a lot of changes have been occurring and perhaps we ought to run a full backup soon (or more frequent transaction log backups).
For one, if the size of the differential is greater than the size of the full. Meanwhile, transaction logs could be more of a "relative to the last X backups over the last Y amount of time".
1 vote -
email and pager alert when redgate status is suspended
I would like to receive alert email and pager alert when sql instance is in suspended state. Alert should be received periodically till it is resumed. Currently no alert even though instane is in this state for ever. Powershell script is there to check status but to run this script port 8080 to be enabled and we cant run script on sql server to integrate with email/pager through job because port will be blocked on sql. Alternatively if you can provide table to check status of suspended instance on redgate db instance we can also configure alert by checking this…
3 votes -
Tracking Aborted Queries and Memory Grants in Redgate Monitor / Azure SQL Managed Instance
After contacting Red-Gate support, I understand that individual query monitoring for Azure Managed Instance is currently not supported nor on the roadmap. Is it possible to add this feature to an upcoming release of Red-Gate Monitor?
TL;DR Below
The article below mentions the ability to track cancelled or aborted queries. This would be particularly helpful for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Tracking Aborted Queries and Memory Grants in Redgate Monitor
https://www.red-gate.com/blog/tracking-aborted-queries-and-memory-grants-in-redgate-monitor• Cancelled or aborted queries – immediately see when a query fails to complete, whether due to timeouts, user cancellation, or connection issues
Query Executions in Redgate Monitor
https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/redgate-monitor/query-executions-in-redgate-monitor10 votes -
group similar queries
I have queries which are created by string concatenation in a legacy product.
These queries differ by some IDs in a IN clause.In SQL monitor, these queries are all shown as different queries in the "top queries" section.
I would like that all those similar queries are shown as one query in the "top queries" section so that I can better find long running/problematic queries.
11 votes -
Export the list of SQL queries from waits
Can we please have the ability to export the SQL Queries from Top Queries/top waits.
This is to allow us to pinpoint remove queries that we wish to tune...for example Im only interested in queries that have been run over 1000 times with a logical read count on average being 2500....I think it would just be easier to do this from excel that way i can dice/slice the information up.1 vote -
Exclude queries from Blocking Alerts based on the blocked process rather than the blocking process
I want to be able to "mute" blocked process alerts based on information about the process being blocked rather than the process doing the blocking.
Currently, we can exclude queries based on the process name, query text, login name, database name of the blocking process, however the same level of exclusion cannot be made for the blocking process
I want to be able to exclude blocking alerts where the query being blocked is an Intellisense query. These could be identified by the process name but currently that only applies to the process doing the blocking
I think this probably should…
3 votes
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