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  1. Total data file size/used metrics - add filegroup level

    CONTEXT: We have some databases with multiple filegroups, I’d be useful to be able to drill down from the DB level to the FG level on the “Total data file size” and “Total data file used” metrics.

    PROBLEM: Not being able to slice totals by FG is problematic, since different FGs often have different capacity / performance requirements, different space used speed/patterns etc.

    EXAMPLE SOLUTION: For “Total data file size” and “Total data file used” add an additional selector window after the database selector: a list of filegroups + an (All) option at the top. So, the selectors would be:…

    21 votes
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  2. temporary alert configuration

    I have a SQL Agent job that is failing daily. I have already alerted the dev who is repsonsible. I now have two options:
    1. Change the alert setting at the job level to not raise an alert when this specific job fails. Saves me from irrelevant alerts, but one day the dev will fix the problem and I will probably forget that I should turn this back on.
    2. Leave the alert setting as is and spend a half-minute or so each day to clear the alert. Not a good use of my time and very annoying,

    Please consider…

    9 votes
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  3. Timestamps in UTC

    Currently, timestamps in charts and elsewhere are displayed in local webbrowser timezone. I need all the timestamps in UTC. I need to share screenshots with colleagues in different timezones and having them in UTC is a must have.

    14 votes
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  4. Execute an action when a custom metric alert is rising

    It would be helpful when you could pin an action to a custom metric alert.

    4 votes
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  5. see the sql_handle under query details under top 10 queries

    to find an execution plan in the plan cache when the plan is recreated

    15 votes
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  6. Add ability to search Server Log

    I would like the ability to search the error log or at least filter out some alerts. For example, we get about 45 "Log has been backed up" log entries every 15 minutes. It's very hard to actually find things on redgate without having to login to the SQL server and filter there.

    8 votes
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  7. be able to customize email and Slack notifications

    Option to customize email and Slack notifications

    44 votes
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  8. Filter for VMWare virtual machine list under Manage VMWare hosts

    Add a filter in the vmware host to list only monitored servers. On and off checkbox would be enough.

    12 votes
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  9. Re-fire alert notification if alert stays active

    My initial problem was that an alert that was still active was marked as cleared, but I wanted the alert to 're-appear' as essentially it hadn't been fixed.

    This then led me to thinking about any alerts that can move from Active to Ended. It would be useful to configure these is such a way that if they stay Active for a given period, then they re-fire. I understand that is what the multiple thresholds can be used for (especially if the thresholds define time periods) but in this case I may already be at High, there is no further…

    32 votes
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  10. Filter alerts by Comment

    Add back in the filter options, the filter on Have/Doesn't have Comment.
    Add the possibility to search by comment.

    Wold be great if there was some sort of "Tags" that you can apply to an alert and to filter based on those tags.

    11 votes
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  11. Access rights on database level

    CONTEXT: We want to give our developers access rights to there databases alerts (long running queries, blocking processes, deadlocks ...).

    PROBLEM: Access rights are only allowed on sql server instance level. Database1 should only see dev team1, database2 should only see dev team2. This is not possible at the moment.

    11 votes
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  12. Add Single Sign-On (SSO).

    We would love to have Single Sign-On added so we can use CAS for authentication. This feature would really help make things easier even more so then LDAP/NTLM even... I know I been on a support ticket for weeks to have a "work around" be the answer.

    26 votes
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  13. be able to show basic SSIS monitoring graphs/sparklines on the overview page (Buffers spooled, Buffers in memory, rows read,...).

    There is currently no SSIS monitoring in SQL Monitor. You can add custom metrics for performance counters available through SSISDB but these can only be seen on the Analysis page and only after you have selected all of them.

    It would be nice to be able to select SSIS as an option for a server and then see these counters as graphs/sparklines on the overview page.

    8 votes
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  14. Comments in alerts list

    Show the comments or at least the first 50 symbols of a comments in the Alerts list.

    8 votes
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  15. Exclude offline databases from backup alerts

    Exclude all offline data bases from the overdue backup alert as we do not have a need to backup an offline data base. For us if a data base is taken offline it's most likely because its been migrated to another server or no longer needed and will eventually be deleted.

    23 votes
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  16. Support for showing multiple metrics with the same units on Analysis Graph

    When showing more than one metric on a graph on the Analysis page, I fully understand that it is difficult to merge the units scales on the x axis. So what you get is each graph has it's 'own' x axis - and I get that - it makes sense when the units are incompatible (eg. percentage vs KB used vs batch/sec).

    But when all the metrics are measure in the same units, it can create a visually confusing graph.

    For example I'm looking at memory usage over time, so I've chosen Machine: memory used, SQL Server: total memory, SQL…

    29 votes
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  17. save list of top 10 queries to excel

    I would like to be able to save the list of top 10 queries to excel to deliver to developers in different sort orders

    7 votes
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  18. Allow custom metrics to only run on primary node of an AG

    Allow configuration of a custom metric to only run on the primary node of an availability group.

    18 votes
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  19. Run a custom SQL script when an alert is raised

    We use SQL monitor very heavily for our SQL and application monitoring, what we would like is for each alert to be able to define a custom sql script to run when the alert is raised, the output of this sql should be included in the alert.

    This would allow us to do things like capture whoisactive when blocking occurs or other application specific things and make responding to alerts MUCH easier.

    69 votes
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  20. Save the deadlock graph as pdf

    I would like to be able to save the deadlock graph as pdf or maybe be able to send the page as an email

    6 votes
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