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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on the overview, monitored instances be able to choose which groups to show
It is possible to choose one or all groups on the monitored instances overview. I would like to be able to select more than one group to show or deselect some groups that I do not want to see.
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Provide a direct link to the base monitor download
When installing updates, only the SQL Monitor web service link is initially provided. In order to get access to the SQL Monitor base monitor download one has to first install the the SQL Monitor web service. This process slows down upgrade time and extends the "broken state" time in a multi-base monitor configuration.
Please provide a direct link to the base monitor download without requiring an initial WebService monitor install.
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Have database sessions displayed with the networking info from sys.dm_exec_connections(SqlServer)
Having a window of session connection information, especially using the network info per session as seen in the sys.dmexecconnections view from SqlServer would be very helpful. This also helps in associating network latency waits with the actual app session(s).
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Be able to set an Alert to escalate when it has been active for a certain amount of time.
I have a several different Jobs that fail periodically, once in a while is not a big problem but when they continue to fail over a period of time it does become a problem and I need to know. Likewise when I have an AG is slow to sync in the middle of the night when it is rebuilding all of the indexes of a 1.2TB database and syncing across to locations in 2 states I don't want to be paged, but if it is persistent through the day I do.
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Showing Unlicensed and will not allow you to stop monitoring
I added a server that I needed to monitor for a couple hours. When I was done, I swapped out the license and attempted to pause the monitoring to remove the blue banner at the top:
You have unlicensed servers. Unlicensed servers will not be monitored and will not raise alerts.
However, I was unable to pause the monitoring as it just refreshed the page, with the blue bar at the top, and the "pause monitoring" button still enabled and "resume monitoring" button still disabled. Ideally, there would be a way to say I don't want to monitor this server…
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Analysis Graph Tab
This is about the Statistics for the Disk avg. read and write metrics.
There are times when based on the results for a server the statistics are presented in seconds. More often than not it will be 0.0, 0.2 sec, etc.
This is not very helpful, and I often find myself having to download the Export (csv) and get the average.It would be much more beneficial to just show all results in milliseconds, or present an option to the end user of seeing ms or seconds.
Thank you
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Group alerts into a hierarchy
I want to be able to group alerts into a hierarchy so that for instance when a server goes offline, all of the other alerts generated such as instance unavailable are not generated.
3 votes -
Set up multiple custom alerts for a single custom metric
For some custom metrics, the ideal number is not a fixed number. (E.g. ideal number of VLFs depends on log file size). In those cases I write a custom metric that returns a "percentage of ideal number". I like to be warned both when the actual number is too high and when it is too low so I would like to set up two custom alerts for this.
This is currently not possible without creating a copy of the custom metric, which of course wastes resources. Please consider adding the option to set up multiple custome alerts for a single…
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I would like to be able to install an update without having to change the browser port.
I start with port 8080, when installing an update the port is "in-use" so I have to switch to port 8081, with the next update I switch back to port 8080.
Surely the update should be smart enough to see there is a running process and either disable the web process until the update is finished, or make the update without having to change the port1 vote -
Be able to report on current alert configuration at All Servers and Specific Servers/Instance levels
Be able to run a report or create an output file that lists default and customized alert settings at All Server, Server and Instance level (Including notification setup).
This is a common request from management and at this point the only option I can think is to setup a spreadsheet and start going through all the alerts.
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Sortable columns on the Alert Inbox (Grouped or ungrouped)
The Alert inbox should be sortable by column.
It would be much easier to focus on key items if the Alert Text column could be sorted. A straight alpha sort (Asc or Desc) would be great. So for instance a "Long-running query (731)" would sort before a "Long-running query (525)" and all of the "Long-running query" be easy to seledt and clear.2 votes -
Allow custom metrics to be optionally created as "event" alerts rather than default "continuous" alerts.
I have installed the "Used/available database space increased alert" which alerts when defined thresholds of used space have been exceeded. However, once activated, the alert remains in an active state with no additional notifications (easily missed). I'd prefer to have this metric run daily and notify each time a threshold is exceeded.
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Option to include @Channel or @User in Slack Channel Notification
Provide an option for individual alerts to include @Channel or @User to the slack channel notification.
5 votes -
Shift Click to select multiple alerts
Add the possibility to select multiple alerts by using Shift + Click.
This was possible in the versions before alert grouping.9 votes -
blocked by (number)
This should be easy to implement..
"blocked by [some number]"
If available show the security context/or username associated to the session number.It would be a time saver, and enable me to react or ignore faster
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Create Duplicate of Default Alerts
Hi, it would be great to create 2 Default alerts with deffernt setting for differnt servers
and to seperate AO Group when creating Alerts
so that a Backup Replica wont go into some alerts that serve the production Servers4 votes -
be able to be advised if a certain query (sql_handle or query_hash) is suddenly taking much longer than normal to execute. Not only to see
I would like to be able to be advised if a certain query (grouped by sqlhandle or queryhash) is suddenly taking longer than normal to execute.
The query may or may not be included in the top 10 queries.
/Rasmus
6 votes -
Remove a user/group from SQL Monitor
It would be desirable to be able to remove a user and/or group from SQL Monitor.
At present, there are no options to manage them, only add them.7 votes -
View trace queries without alert
It would be nice to be able to view Trace queries without an alert. For example a separate page to go through the queries against the DB even when an alert is not raised.
6 votes -
Per database table fragmentation.....
I would like to see a a Sql Monitor "information" page that shows the "top 10" fragmented tables on a per database level.
114 votesGood idea! If this suggestion gets more traction, we’ll implement this.
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