Suggestions
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Monitor Azure SQL DWH
It'd be great to be able to monitor performance of queries on Azure SQL DWH, as there are a number of DMV's available to track usage. Also, the ability to see on the Dashboard what DWU level the Azure DWH instance is running on would raise value and awareness of the cost of it, at that point.
13 votes -
Desktop notifications
Desktop notifications would have (at least) 2 advantages:
1) It would give much quicker access to the critical alert information than a regular alert email, since you could layout/format the notification with perfect flexibility (as opposed to default email client notifications which devote most of the real estate to the "from" address, and subject and body in plain text)
2) With a couple buttons, the notification could give immediate access to actions such as "clear" or "mark as read"
13 votes -
Monitor SSAS databases
I would like to be able to monitor SSAS cubes and data structures in the same fashion as SQL databases.
55 votes -
Resize the columns
Be able to dynamically resize, refit columns so details could be seen.
4 votes -
See disk percentage free/used to Machine overview page
It would be useful to see disk percentage free/used on the machine overview page next to the used / allocated column. This would give us a quick idea of how full the machine's disk is percentage-wise without having to do the math elsewhere.
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Reduce false positives due to log shipping / Mirroring
On secondary server for log shipping/mirroring false positives can be generated for overdue backups/databases unavailable. If these technologies are used for DR purposes then having the checks ignored is unsafe. It is trivial to filter these out with the below code and I'm sure there is something similar in place for Availability Group databases already.
SELECT *
FROM sys.databases
WHERE name NOT IN (SELECT secondarydatabase FROM msdb.dbo.logshippingsecondarydatabases UNION SELECT dbname(databaseid) FROM msdb.sys.databasemirroring WHERE mirroringrole_desc = 'MIRROR')18 votes -
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.
83 votes
Daniel Rothig
responded
Thanks Phil – we are considering reworking the upgrade process. If this suggestions gains more traction, we’ll prioritise it higher
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Use extended events instead of trace when trace initialized due to alert
I have seen a related idea https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/5717202-use-extended-events-for-deadlock-tracing-instead
However, I'm expanding this. If the SQL version is high enough the trace of current activity should be using extended events instead of a trace, this would reduce the total impact to the server performance while also expanding the available information.
98 votesDaniel Rothig
responded
Thanks for the suggestion – we’ll monitor how popular it gets
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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.
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61 votes -
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.
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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.
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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 graph45 votes -
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/
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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/65981Possible closely related feature request:
https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11123559-triage-and-configure-repeating-alerts-more-efficie7 votes -
add the table schema to alerts
On that alert (fragmented index), you see a table name. It would be helpful to see the schema to which that table belongs.
Medium Fragmented indexes
Raised on: XXXXXXXX > RedGateMonitor
Time raised: 26 Jun 2016 1:00 AM (UTC-04)
Details
Database name: RedGateMonitorTotal number of indexes: 332
Indexes above fragmentation threshold: 3Indexes last checked: 26 Jun 2016 1:00 AM
Fragmented indexes:
Index Table name Fragmentation(%) No. of pages
ClusterSqlServerServerWaitsUnstableSamplesIdCollectionDate ClusterSqlServerServerWaitsUnstableSamples 96 1175
ClusterSqlServerSqlProcessUnstableSamplesIdCollectionDate ClusterSqlServerSqlProcessUnstableSamples 96 3288
ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesUnstableSamplesIdCollectionDate ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesUnstableSamples 99 17584 votes
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