Suggestions
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Testing the Availability Group listener(s)
If an Availability Group listener is not working for any reason (like no DNS resolution), but the ressource is still up in the cluster, SQL Monitor will not raise any alert.
Could you add a specific test for SQL monitor to test the connection using the availability group listener(s) and raise an alert if not successful?
7 votes -
Provide AAD authentication mode to connect to Azure SQL server apart from username and password authentication.
Provide AAD authentication mode to connect to Azure SQL server apart from username and password authentication.
Because if Azure SQL is set to AAD authentication only for security reasons in any organization, username and password to add new Azure SQL server/DB under SQL Monitoring doesn't help.
33 votes -
See Transaction Isolation Levels in Blocking Alerts
There are two methods I have been using to understand blocking situations on our servers:
The processes tab in the Blocking Process alert
The blocking processes section in the server overviewI can get a lot of information from both of these methods but I don't seem to be able to get the isolation levels of the blocking or blocked queries which would be helpful in understanding why the blocking situation has occurred.
Prior to using SQL monitor, we used the blocked process report to monitor blocking and these include the isolation levels. Unfortunately, I still have to resort to…
1 vote -
Limit user access on clusters
I would like to be able to grant specific AD users / groups access to specific instances on a cluster. Currently its only possible to grant access at the cluster level which gives more access than is necessary. This would be a supremely useful feature for me!
3 votes -
Environment specific Reports
As we have option to create different reports on SQL Monitor, We would like to have the option to create the reports as per environment (Dev,UAT,Prod) for Disk Space,Server Downtime etc. It will be more feasible if we can get a filter to create reports for the specific environment.
1 vote -
Alert Type for Polybase Service
Standard Alert Type for monitoring of the Polybase service status analogous to the other services (Browser, IIS, Agent, Full-Text, etc. )
4 votes -
Superimpose the Disk I/O for VMWare Host on graph for Disk I/O
I'd like to get the Disk I/O for the VMWare Host superimposed on the graph just as I get CPU and Memory, it is very helpful to see the load on the host together with the load on the actual VM.
3 votes -
Have more retention periods for the data retention settings.
Right now on the data retention settings screen, there is only a drop down with a static list of ranges to keep data. It would be useful if these could be more granular, like being able to set both the number and interval (month,day,year). At a minimum, it would be nice if there were options between 1 year and indefinitely.
8 votes -
alert when database was created / dropped
It would be nice to have a build in alert when someone (e.g. a vendor) created or dropped a database.
Reasons:
- you may want to delete old backup files (if dropped) or have to modify / delete some maintenances
- you'll make a manual full backup of the new DB so that log-backups could be taken by your backup solution
- maybe you have to add the new DB to monitoring (as DLM Dashboard), backups (and have to consinder its the disk space at the backup drive) or an Excel-Sheet with a list of your databases :-)Real-Live-Example:
I…5 votes -
Exclude serverless databases from monitoring
Need the ability to exclude serverless databases from scanning. The purpose of using serverless is to suspend when not in use, drastically reducing costs. Currently these databases are "kept awake" by SQL Monitor and never go to sleep. This is a deal-breaker for use on some of our servers...
5 votes -
report to show Job status completed or failed. last run time and next run time
report to show Job status completed or failed. last run time and next run time
1 vote -
Save alert email addresses
I monitor a large enterprise and forward hundreds of alerts using cut/paste. If recent addresses were retained, it would save a lot of time.
1 vote -
can use proxy
We have internet access through proxy. I need SQL Monitor to work through this. for example download latest update
2 votes -
Have option to keep the base instance name in display for availability groups
We have the option to choose between Windows cluster name and FCI network name for FCI. However, in an Availability Group scenario, every instance is being show by the cluster name first, which is obviously the same for all of them. This makes it difficult to identify the correct one when you need to look at a specific instance. Would like to add this as a configuration option so that clustered AG servers we can also choose whether to use cluster name or instance name as display
6 votes -
View stats for queries across databases and / or servers
Given that one has multiple similar databases, recieving the same queries, having same indexes and so forth. Currently one are able to view top-queries on server and database level, but what would be very valuable is to see the same information across databases on a server and across servers where one would then match the query on a content of the query itself. Then one could pinpoint globally what queries that has high io / cpu / ... even tough they on a individual db-level is not "high"
1 vote -
Create smaller timeframes on the server overview page.
Currently if you dive into the overview page of a certain server the default timeframe is 24 hours, you can narrow this into 12,6,3 and 1 hour.
I would like to have the opportunity to narrow it down into minutes.like a custom time frame. This helps to do a more clean investigation.
3 votes -
Monitor Partitioned Tables in SQL Server
Be able to monitor and alert on sql paritioned tables. Such as if a retention of a table is 30 days and it retains data greater then 30 days, I should be able to get an alert. Be able to get alert on things like if older partitions are not merging or new partitions are not splitting or data being stuck in one partition...etc Able to see growth and changes in the partitions...
3 votes -
Remember the Filter Layout
On the Alert Inbox it would be nice to be able to re-arrange the filters and for the options to be remembered no matter where I login.
1 vote -
SQL Monitor to Authenticate Directly with Office 365, Exchange Online
Hello, it would be great if SQL Monitor could authenticate directly with Office 365 rather than having to use an on-premises SMTP server. Exchange Online is probably the most widely used email service for business and the application is unable to successfully authenticate with it. Thanks.
3 votes -
Add Query Impact metrics into analysis graphs
Add the ability to report on Query Impact metric in the analysis section to monitor trends.
3 votes
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