Suggestions
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Security auditing
Monitor SQL Server login and database user activity to identify unused or anomalous accounts. Supports security audits, enforces the Principle of Least Privilege (POLP), and helps retire or restrict dormant or misused accounts.
The tool will collect and analyze login usage data across all servers and databases. It will:
Report accounts that have not been used within a configurable time period.
Identify accounts active in unexpected contexts (e.g., unauthorized hostnames or outside normal business hours).
Allow administrators to define thresholds or parameters for expected usage and generate alerts when violations occur.
2 votes -
that DevOps team that can only monitor their own database can also suspend them without having administrator rights
at the moment when people have administrator rights within Redgate Monitor they can suspend their databases but also all other databases we monitor. we would like to be able to grant teams rights to only be able to suspend the databases that they use and have rights to see within Redgate Monitor.
3 votes -
Within the Reporting option, allow 'Alert Summary' tile the ability to select a individual servers
Within the Reporting option, allow 'Alert Summary' tile the ability to select a individual servers within an AlwaysOn cluster. Currently you can only select the cluster name.
1 vote -
Simplify alerts without mentioning product names like PostgreSQL
Few alerts in Redgate Monitor ends with "(SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)".
We don't use PostgreSQL and don't plan to do it. Would be nice to turn off that feature permanently so that, for example message like “Database unavailable (SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)” shown as “Database unavailable”2 votes -
Grant access to the Security Auditing features to a specific user role or user group
As a DBA, I wish to grant access to the Security Auditing features (Permissions changes and Configuration compliance) to our security team. I do not wish the security team to have full administrator access to the Redgate Monitor installation as they are not DBAs and neither interested in nor responsible for any other parts in Redgate Monitor.
At the moment, only Redgate Monitor administrators have access to the above enterprise security features in Redgate Monitor. From a separation-of-duty perspective, the security team should not have full access as administrators to the Redgate Monitor installation.
5 votes -
Filtering on a Postgres Aurora Cluster based on Node
When adding a Aurora Postgres Cluster to be monitored, if it has multiple nodes, say a reader/writer. Can we get a feature that will show only the metrics related to that specific node. Say I want to see only the CPU/Memory/Throughput for the writer node only and vice versa for the reader node.
1 vote -
Tracked queries only available to admins
Tracked queries are only available for Administrators. Would it be possible to adjust the permission for Standard users to allow for this feature? At the moment we are forced to assign admin roles more broadly than we’d like because of insufficient granularity of permissions.
And this feature (especially if combined with some metadata as highlighted in https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/46675642-ability-to-add-notes-to-tracked-queries ) is a shame to not allow standard users to utilize.3 votes -
Add custom banner to the logon page
Basic authentication is sufficient for simple installations for few users. But security recommendations require a custom banner be displayed at the logon page. It will be nice if Redgate Monitor can do that without using OpenID or other external authentication methods.
1 vote -
Search by Query hash in Top queries
As discussed in https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/91306/search-by-query-hash-in-top-queries/p1?new=1
it would be very useful to be able to search by Query hash in Top queries.Scenarios:
- for complex (and parametrized) queries it may not be enough to be searched by QueryText, DatabaseName or ParentObjectName;
- if queries impact is also investigated and tracked in external systems the QueryHash may be (the only common) field to quickly identify and find that query in Redgate Monitor.10 votes -
Grant Web Client Access for Specific Elastic Pool, Instance or Database
We can currently share the web console out at the Server, Cluster or Replica level.
I would like more granularity and be able to share at lower levels:- SQL Server Instance
- Azure SQL Elastic Pool
- Azure SQL Database
We are a very large IT department with people dedicated to individual systems/databases.
I would prefer to hide things they don't own.3 votes -
Add additional metrics for Latency, Failover, queries categories for MongoDB
• Replicaset metrics around latency and failovers…etc. Like SQL Server.
• Something to track queries performing large scans vs seeks.
• Would be nice if the alerts (even if duplicated were broken out by platform. They are shown by SQL which I get is your primary offering, but just saying also postgressql vs seeing its PostgressSQL on Linux or MongoDB on Linux and change the alert offering to reflect those in a separate grouping like SQL.
4 votes -
View top queries, stored procs, top waits, index usage at estate level on Azure SQL
You can currently only view the top stats at DB level for Azure SQL. We run a multi-tenanted SaaS application where all DB's are identical across the estate, so to be able to compare offending stored procs, indexes etc. across the board would be incredibly helpful.
4 votes -
DataRetention setting and Performance troubleshooting data per technology because needs may be different
Possibility define DataRetention setting and Performance troubleshooting data per technology because needs may be different between sqlserver, postgres , mysql, etc, and improve disk space of seacrh engine queries.
7 votes -
Improvements to Alert Notifications when you have multiple alert thresholds
You can configure alerts in Regdate Monitor to have different thresholds (low, medium, high). The problem is that all notifications have to go to the same email address(es).
We'd suggest an improvement to allow diffent notification methods for each level. For examples, send low alerts go to one email address and medium/high go to a different email address.
This would allow us to send the more critical alerts via OpsGenie/Jira.
6 votes -
Track Aborted Sessions
The ability to view aborted sessions, either an alert or space on the overview page in a similar way to the TOP 10 queries.
Attached is the offering from SolarWinds.
8 votes -
SQL Versions Page
Hi there,
We maintain a number of legacy SQL Servers that are still monitored via SQL Monitor. I regularly use the SQL Versions page to identify which instances require patching.
However, some of these servers are under a permanent patch freeze, and I’d like to update their status to “OK” so they no longer appear as needing attention.
It would be amazing if one could update the patch status for these servers within Redgate to mark them as compliant to reflect their frozen state.
3 votes -
Deploy the latest API when updating Redgate Monitor
I would like when installing the latest version of Redgate Monitor to have an option for it to deploy the latest version of the API as well to a location. The last few times I have done the install I have not updated the API right away as it been a set and forget thing. Comes the evening when it runs it fails due to the versions not being the same.
I have checked within the Program Files and 2/3 of the files are not there. (RedgateMonitor.psd1 and RedgateMonitor.psm1), so I cannot just have it import via that way.4 votes -
Data retention - auto shrink if SQL
Recently engaged with redgate support about this and was advised to raise on here.
When changing data retention settings within Monitor and reducing the timeframe, it does free up space within the database but it isn't released.
Adding a routine within Monitor to run a shrinkfile against the database would be an ideal solution, but even adding a button/form within Monitor to set up a SQL agent job to do this in a standardised way would be fantastic as a quality of life, as if you're reducing the retention it's usually going to be because of disk space constraints.
2 votes -
We would like to have a log of users that did use RedGate Monitor
In that way we could create a report of the users when they did use RedGate Monitor. example a weekly or monthly report showing how many times a user did use the application.
3 votes -
flexible disk configuration
Currently the configuration for disk space monitoring in “RedGate Monitor” only gives the option to check on the number of bytes that is still free on the disk (in GB or MB).
Ideally one should check on the number of bytes in combination with the % free space.
The reason for this is that percentage hugely differs depending on the total size of the disk. On a small disk one would like to extend the disk when it is 80% FULL, where as on a much bigger disk, 20% space might still be many GB’s and to early to extend…4 votes
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