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  1. 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

    3 votes
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  2. 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.

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  3. 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…

    7 votes
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  4. 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 port

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  5. 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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  6. 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
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  7. 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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  8. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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

    2 votes
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  11. 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 Servers

    4 votes
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  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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.

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  15. 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.

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  16. Is it possible to have long running queries order by Execution time desc ?

    Is it possible to have long running queries order by Execution time desc ?

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  17. Include instance-specific name (@@SERVERNAME) on alert mails

    The alert mails for a SQL Server cluster contain the cluster name but not the actual instance virtual name. It would be nice if the mails contained the actual virtual name (as given by "select @@servername") so that the email contained all the details needed to connect to an alerting instance.

    My cluster name (i.e. CLUST01) is a different IP than my virtual names (i.e. VIRTUALSQL01), which means that I can't connect to my "FOO" instance by "CLUST01\FOO" as the alert email seems to indicate. Instead I need to connect via "VIRTUALSQL01\FOO" which is not present anywhere in the alert…

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  18. Monitor for unavailable disks

    I'd like to see SQL monitor check for disks that were previously available but are no longer. Example: I have a machine were a disk is online, something goes wrong and the disk goes offline. I would like SQL monitor to alert me to this. If the disk contains database files I would get a database unavailable alert, however if it is a drive that holds backups there would be no notification until the backups start failing.

    This would have to be setup differently for clusters where a disk may exist on any node in the cluster due to failovers.

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    7 votes
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  19. Blocking process Hover Information should show Total Blocking Duration

    The (Restored in 8.0.6) hover over the Alert List's "Last Updated" column shows the duration of the Alert itself, NOT the total time involved.

    Unless you memorize the configuration of this Alert for each of its 3 severity levels, and assume they never change, and never vary by server, nor by database... you must sill open each event to see the "Total blocking duration for all descendants" published under the "Details" tab, then add that to the event duration, for which you must now do time subtraction as there is no "Duration" on the Status line... (another omission).

    Having to…

    3 votes
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  20. SQL Monitor acquiring shared locks on objects

    Is it necessary for SQL Monitor to acquire shared locks on objects when monitoring a SQL instance?

    We experienced a deadlock on our system when SQL Monitor was trying to query a system table msdb..backupset at the same time that on of our maintenance plans was deleting backup history as one of its sub tasks.

    It would be nice if we could either set the isolation level per alert or if you guys would amend your code to use nolock query hints?

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