Suggestions
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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.
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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 -
It would be nice to be able to exclude names of databases to be backed up instead of un clicking them one at a time .
It would be nice to be able to exclude names of databases to be backed up instead of un clicking them one at a time .
This should be similar to the long running queries where you have the option to exclude.1 vote -
Include more details regarding a disk space usage/free report
What I'm looking for is that for today, the D: drive is this filesize, e.g. 500gb. Once the report runs again the following week, it is 505 gb and so on. Then it would summarize that there is a differential of 5 gb which is the growth.
1 vote -
know who ran SQL Compare and what changed
within SQL Monitor when it flags that SQL Compare ran, it would be good to be able to see who ran the job and what was changed. Currently the job is flagged in SQL Monitor but there seems to be no further details other than what database it ran on.
3 votes -
User Defined Analysis Templates
Wouldn't it be nice to have the option of saving a view of multiple counters under Analysis?
4 votes -
I would like to view Top 10 processes by Memory used
I would like to view Top 10 processes by Memory used
3 votes -
Cluster Roles that have been renamed should no longer have an entry with the old name
Over the last year and a half I have migrated several SQL FCI's to new windows clusters, new hardware, windows and SQL versions. To accomplish this with minimal downtime I had to setup the cluster roles ahead of time with everything ready to go prior to doing a final tlog backup/restore and rename of the cluster instances. This has worked well for us however SQL Monitor creates a new server record when the instance is renamed and never gets rid of the original name of the the new instance. This has left me with SQL Monitor still showing this nonexistent…
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Limit the number of backup entries listed for Estate Backup details
When viewing the backup details of a database in the Estate Backup view, the number of backups listed severly impact the usability. It seem to retrieve all backups done and stored in the SQL monitor DB or in msdb. As we have frequent log backups, this list is very long and heavy to retrieve and display.
1 vote -
Allow linking directly to a screen/alert, but down to the specific page area expanded.
Be able to share links with colleages directly to the section of the site you are trying to direct them to. For example, I want to share an alert page, but on that page, I want to direct them to the "Top Queries" tab, and even into a specific query expanded.
2 votes
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