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Create alert on items in Analysis Graph
The ability to create an alert metric around data which is currently being collected for the Analysis graphs. E.g. Being able to alert when the BufferPagerLifeExpectancy drops below a certain amount.
32 votesDaniel Rothig responded
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In the email alert for custom notifications I would like to execute an ad-hoc query that shows me the results.
This will allow me to write a custom metric alert and see the results of the alert inside the email alert. Example where I monitor one log file with various items the custom alert message can give me context on what errors are written to the log inside of the email
3 votes -
see the meaning of the alert in the email alert going out as it shows in the description on the dashboard inside the dashboard
This will provide more context at what the alert means without going into the dashboard (web) page.
2 votes -
Expand lower section of overview window
I would like the ability to expand the sections in the lower portion of the overview window or break them out into separate windows. For example, when viewing the Top 10 Queries or Waits it is very difficult because there is not enough room. Also because the individual tabs scroll separately from the main window, scrolling is a pain. The top graph section shrinks, but it still takes up too much screen area. Being able to break out in individual sections or expand them to fill the screen would be very helpful.
See attached screenshot for an example.
6 votes -
remember
Remember time period in overview of an instance or change the default from 24 hours. I tend to look at the overview of an instance using the last 6 hours however every time I click down in the overview I have to change from last 24 hours to last 6 hours, this is very frustrating. I would like to be able to remember my last setting or at least be able to change the default for me as a user.
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In the Global Overview screen, have a filter selection for Still Active Alerts
Once an Alert has been cleared or ended I no longer want to see it on my Global Overview screen. When I am handling lots of servers and I see lots of RED on the alert side but they have either been cleared (checked) or ended I no longer want them showing up on the global screen unless I want them too to review. This causes lots of questions from management when they walk by and see lots of RED and the Alert was handled or no longer a concern.
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Be able to see in the overviews panel how much RAM my monitored instances are consuming just like I can see CPU and Disk IO for example.
I want to monitor how much RAM my instances are consuming while I'm in the overviews panel and even though I can go to a specific panel for checking this specific counter it'd be useful to havr it in the single overviews panel and not moving back and forth.
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Add other Red Gate tools to SQL Monitor as licensed modules
It would be useful if the following tools were additional modules that could be added to the web interface to SQL Monitor;
SQL Backup Pro
Index ManagerFor example, upon receiving a no database/log backup alert it would be great to just click into another section of SQL Monitor to then diagnose/fix the issue rather than using an external application. Additionally the capability within Index Manager would sit well in SQL Monitor as a logical extension for the fragmented index alert.
This would allow SQL Monitor to be the primary place that a DBA would need to go in order…
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non sql servers should not need a license
i think it would be very nice being able to have alerts for non sql servers without the need to allocate a license to those.
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Add custom metrics to Overview(s)
Add the ability to choose what is displayed on the overview for a given server/instance - especially with the addition of custom metrics.
Even better would be to allow the addition of multiple overviews (aka Dashboards) and configure what each one displays.
25 votesDaniel Rothig responded
We like that idea – if it gains traction, we’ll prioritise it more
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Have all cookies from the application marked as secure and HttpOnly
In a internal review of web-applications our riscmanament suggests that all webapplications cookies must be marked being secure and HttpOnly.
Could that be possible?
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Allow configuration of Fragmentation Alerts down to Table for EXCLUSIONS
The Fragmentation Alert for a database only permits on/off and low/medium/high with page count configurations.
This is far, far too high a level to be useful.
The Alert needs, at the very least, INCLUSION and EXCLUSION capabilities by table within database. An overall fragmentation low/medium/high and pages would be OK to START WITH, but It would be great to be able to go to each index and state the fragmentation limits and even whether to monitor it.
In my case, I use Idera's excellent Defrag Manager, so when I see this alert, I check that Defrag Manager is doing its…
5 votes -
产品建议
1)Overview界面显示的服务器信息指标可以增加定制功能,可以让用户自己选择主面板上显示神秘关键性能指标
2)告警时的邮件发送增加不同的数据库可以发送给不同管理员邮箱。1 vote -
basic microsoft active directory/exchange monitoring
since i have 2 unused licenses it would be very nice if could could monitor my exchange server and also my active directory domain server.
for instances how many mails are being send and received or are in the queue
was any user account locked? etc3 votes -
monitor microsoft dynamics nav related stuff
connected users
etc3 votes -
Don't bloat plan cache No. 2
I have ~15k variations of this query in my plan cache, each with varying handles and a varying number of INSERTs.
DECLARE @plans TABLE (planhandle varbinary(64) NOT NULL)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b008697d33ae0e92c011c00000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b000ddbda05a03c83f01d00000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b00263e3902f0b1112b1900000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x05000b009ee99729a0b9945b1600000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b0059af9b291063a6951900000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b0094ca3316501fee2c1600000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x05000b0065c5a32880b2945b1600000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
SELECT planhandle ,
queryplaninfo.queryplan
FROM @plans
OUTER APPLY sys.dmexecqueryplan(planhandle) AS queryplan_info4 votes -
Feasibility of selecting databases across the sql instances to create custom metrics
Imagine we are planning to create a new custom metric which we wish to use across several instances but one specific set of databases. its currently impossible and will be one to have.
3 votes -
Execution Time on Alert Dashboard.
In Alert Dashboard, Execution time helps to analyze long running query in priority,so it would help if execution time is displayed on Alert dashboard.
1 vote -
Apply regex rules to existing alerts
Filtering alerts with regex is great for new alerts but it would be better if we could confirm our new command work by running them on existing alerts. Either testing or just been able to the filter the events using custom regex expressions.
3 votes -
we dont allow ping to cross vlans so i cannot add servers to monitor
we dont allow ping to cross vlans so i cannot add servers to monitor
1 vote
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