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  1. Drop markers on the graphs and add annotations

    While working on performance tweaks it is customary to consult the analysis reports on a regular basis to see if our changes moved the needle. More often than not the tweaks are released one small batch at a time and it'd be nice to drop markers and custom annotations directly on the charts. I'd like to use that feature to add short phrases describing what was changed that led to the improvement, or degradation for that matter, of performance.

    This would be by server (cluster/node) and by metric with the same retention period as the base data for that chart.

    …

    61 votes
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  2. Simpler Upgrade \ Patch Process

    The upgrade process is a bit long winded. It would be great if the system could be upgraded or patch with a single click. Ideally within SQL Monitor but if not, downloading the file and just selecting upgrade would be great.

    78 votes
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    Daniel Rothig responded

    Thanks Phil – we are considering reworking the upgrade process. If this suggestions gains more traction, we’ll prioritise it higher

  3. Keep from Locking Account When Registering Server with wrong password

    The process of registering a server should try only once with a credential failure, looks like it keeps on trying and if you have typed in a wrong AD password it will lock your account.

    5 votes
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  4. Filter "Blocking Process" alert by User or Application or Database

    We frequently get high-severity "Blocking process" alerts via email for a SSRS database that I'd like to ignore. We sometimes get so many alerts that the new SQL Monitor sends, "You've received more than 30 of these alerts in the past 24 hours so we're going to stop sending them for a while." Unfortunately the alerts caused by the SSRS database mean our Inbox is full of noise and we miss our important application database alerts.

    Please add the ability to filter which User/Application/Database cause these alerts to be raised, similar to some other alerts that support Regular Expression filters.

    14 votes
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  5. Show a log of query activity

    CONTEXT: When investigating a performance issue, I want to know what has been running

    PROBLEM: SQL Monitor has rich query information on the overview screens, the performance diagnostics panels, and the query alerts, and the query trace in alert detail reports, but it's difficult to tie that information together

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    - Implement a query log
    - Show query information on the analysis graph

    45 votes
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  6. 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/

    20 votes
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  7. 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.

    29 votes
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  8. 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
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  9. 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…

    3 votes
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  10. 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?…

    41 votes
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  11. 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.

    13 votes
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  12. 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/65981

    Possible closely related feature request:
    https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11123559-triage-and-configure-repeating-alerts-more-efficie

    7 votes
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  13. 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 number

    2 votes
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  14. 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
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  15. 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 votes
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    Daniel Rothig responded

    We’re looking into this – no ETA at the moment

  16. 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
    Ste

    9 votes
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    Daniel 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.

  17. 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.

    14 votes
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  18. 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.

    4 votes
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  19. 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
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  20. 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
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