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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Offer integration with power bi
I've love the ability to integrate SQL monitor with Power Bi for building dashboards of analysis graphs. Since Power BI is offering a powerful way to setup dashboards with metrics users/managers care about this would be a great way to enhance many analytical report options by outsourcing the creation of those to users more and more, and offering the integration with power bi to make it easy to do.
SQL Sentry offers an integration with their cloud product to work with their metrics and Power BI in case you want to evaluate how it might be used. https://www.sqlsentry.com/Company/News-Article/20150505-power-bi-content-pack-sql-sentry
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/monitoring-your-sql-sentry-data-with-power-bi/
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SQL Monitor self update (or one click update)
Instead of downloading and running a wizard, I would like to see a way for SQL Monitor to self update, or to have a 'one click' update button built in the interface.
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Configure Data Purge by Server/Instance or at least by Server group.
I would like to keep production server performance data for a month or more but the dev server data can be purged after a couple of weeks.
24 votes -
Replace SERVER identifier with a hosts file friendly name
As the ALIAS feature isn't working consistently across all pages and, in particular, email alerts, the means to replace the name of a monitored server is needed.
E.g., if someone, not a DBA or person familiar with SQL Monitor, set up each server as an I.P. address, or an equally meaningless Rackspace device ID, it is unreasonable to assume that I.P. or RS device translation to named server, which in our case is a customer name+nature combo, is held in every recipient's brain, or that we should carry around a pocket-sized hosts file printout...
If a simple operation such as…
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Select and store a static baseline for future reference
CONTEXT: When comparing server performance over longer periods of time or across deployments, the baseline functionality in SQL Monitor's analysis section is useful.
PROBLEM: SQL Monitor creates a dynamic baseline based on previous data. While this baseline is a realistic idea of what's "normal" it requires us to keep a lot of data in SQL Monitor
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
• Aggregate data in SQL Monitor so that it can be retained for longer without using much space
• Allow us to "freeze" a baseline so that the data doesn't get deleted.What do you think about these solutions? Got another idea?…
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Filter disk space alerts for Quourum disks
Add a new criteria to the Disk monitoring, that allows me NOT to monitor disks that have less than X GB/MB of Total disk space.
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Additional parameters for filtering Long-running query alerts
Long-running query alerts
Example: Creation of ability for you to filter the queries it alerts on based on a regular expression
Source Ticket:
https://redgatesupport.zendesk.com/hc/requests/65981Possible closely related feature request:
https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11123559-triage-and-configure-repeating-alerts-more-efficie7 votes -
Check the plan cache ad-hoc or on a schedule to report issues
implicit conversion,
scans,
lookups and the index that didn't have the columns include
missing indexes
Parameter sniffing
etc...
Report the issues based on impact number2 votes -
Custom metric: alert when value changed
I want to be alerted if someone creates or deletes a database. The metric itself is easy (select count(*) from sys.databases - executed for the master DB on all servers).
But in the alert setting I can only define that it should trigger if the new result is abover or below a set value but not for value changed (compared eigther to the previous value or the "baseline").
So I have to create two metrics / alerts for DB drop (below) and create (above) AND have to define / modify the number of databases as alert threshold for each server…
19 votes
Daniel Rothig
responded
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Search through (closed) alerts for a string.
It would be great if we could search closed alerts for a string. For example I want to see all the alerts that have included a particular view in the query text.
(Also include comments in the search)
69 votesDaniel Rothig
responded
We’re looking into this – no ETA at the moment
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More options for Custom Metric Frequency
Would it be possible to have a custom option for the Custom metric gathering, as it stands the data can be collected at intervals of 1,5,10,30,60,1440 minutes
it would be nice to be able to select a custom value and values less than a minute, the standard metrics that are gathered appear to be gathered every 20 seconds which isn't an option here
Thanks for your time and concideration
Ste9 votesDaniel Rothig
responded
Note that you can currently hack an arbitrary “seconds” value into the SQL Monitor database – but changing the Custom metric configuration via the UI will reset the collection interval to one of the default values.
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Add an analysis metric for Total bytes sent/received over the network interfaces
There is an analysis metric that currently exists for Network Utilization, which I believe is calculated based on the total bytes sent/received over the network interfaces divided by the bandwidth of the network interface. It would be great to add the raw delta bytes/megabytes sent/received/total as a metric on the analysis and overview pages of Sql monitor.
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Alerts for high virtual log file count
Alert on high transaction log virtual log file count. Also being able to configure the thresholds to be alerted on.
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Correct Database file usage alerts with In-Memory/Filestream Filegroups
The Database file usage alerts in V 8.2 are great, however they do not work correctly with Filestream filegroups. per https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/153592 they are not supported.
Please either add support for these filegroup types or disable them by default so we are not spammed by alerts for something that's not valid.
Thanks,
-Luke.6 votes -
Add 'Details' column to the Alert inbox between Object and Unread column
Add 'Details' column to the Alert inbox between 'Object' and 'Unread' columns
6 votes -
Show when a Windows/SQL patch was applied
The current SQL Estate Monitor will show activity for a specific server and has the ability to show when code for example was deployed. I mentioned at the recent SQL in the City in London that it would be good to see any kind of patching that had been applied to that server as well. Get quick eyes on anomalies after a windows update or SQL patch.
2 votes -
Capture cursor SQL for long running queries
It would be great if SQL Monitor would capture the SQL statement being executed for long-running cursors. Currently it shows "FETCH CURSORNAME001"
Cursor SQL can be found with this query when the cursor is still open:
SELECT c.sessionid,
c.cursorid,
c.properties,
c.creationtime,
c.isopen,
c.fetchstatus,
c.dormantduration,
s.logintime,
t.text
FROM sys.dmexeccursors (0) c
JOIN sys.dmexecsessions s
ON c.sessionid = s.sessionid
CROSS APPLY sys.dmexecsqltext(c.sql_handle) t14 votes -
Analysis graph exclude set times over long time range such as 28 days
It would be great to be able to set exclusion times such as the "maintenance windows" when index maintenance activities take place such as every day between 12pm-2am in our case. During these times disk queue length will be predictably high due to the maintenance activities taking place.
When viewing graph analysis for a 28 day period for disk queue length you see peaks which are from the maintenance activities and these events end up skewing the overview of BAU activity.
It would be great to be able to define an "exclusion time window" in the analysis report window to…14 votes -
Allow maximum number of email notifications in a 24-hour period alert to be sent to another email address
Currently if too many alerts for a particular object are received an alert email is sent noting that no more emails will be sent. I want to be able to specify that email is sent to a different address than the default.
For example, we may get a large number of deadlocks. after the first 150 the alert emails are silenced. We configure deadlock alerts go to our normal email address because generally they aren't urgent, however when 150 or more are received there is a definite problem that needs to be reviewed. That should go to our pager email…
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Add a summary tile for deployments to a database
I'd like to see a summary tile for deployments to a database by SQL Compare and SQL Change Automation.
Also it would be good if alerts can be created for these events.3 votes
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