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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. ssis

    SQL Monitor currently does not monitor the execution of SSIS Packages.

    It would be extremely useful if SQL Monitor would monitor the execution of the SSIS packages like it does the execution of SQL Jobs

    E.g.

    Alert if the SSIS Package Execution Fails
    Alert if the SSIS Package is taking longer than normal to Execution
    Alert if the SSIS Package fails to start

    41 votes
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  15. upgrade without reentering credentials

    When you run an upgrade, there should be an option that just uses the current service credentials (i.e. leaves everything as is) instead of having to re-enter them.

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  16. I would like to see PROCESSES TOP 10 BY Memory.

    I would like to see PROCESSES TOP 10 BY Memory.

    13 votes
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  17. Add exclusions to Job Failing alerts

    When a user deliberately stops a job while it's running, it fires a job failed alert. Add exclusion regex so we can add something like "The job was stopped prior to completion by User...." to ignore these.

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  18. Just like you can configure multiple alert thresholds for: JOB DURATION UNUSUAL ALERT you should be able to do so for: JOB FAILING ALERT

    This would allow notifications for failed jobs to be sent to different functional recipient(s) (e.g. Dev vs. Support vs. Ops teams) based on key words and other criteria.

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  19. Have choice to send email as plain text

    When I have it send email to my text service it's HTML, which obviously makes the text msg very large. Allow choice to send alerts via plain text.

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  20. Enable extended events per server

    Currently, enabling the use of extended events is a global setting.

    It would be great if this could be enabled per server, to avoid well-documented issues (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2878139/fix-using-dbghelp-dll-version-4-0-5-error-is-logged-in-sql-server-2012) between extended events and older versions of SQL Server (namely SQL 2008 which is still in extended support until 2019)

    15 votes
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