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  1. Update the password of the account with powershell module

    I do not want to use the base monitoring account, to monitor the different databases. So I need to use a separate account for that. In order to regularly be able to rotate the password of this account, I would need the PowerShell module be updated with a function to update the password.

    3 votes
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  2. Data Export

    Export the top querys list with detail as excel file or can be mail to another person.

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  3. save monitoring data of a specific day

    When having performance related issues on environments we'd like to be able to "save" the data of a specific day or days in order to do a proper root cause analysis, even over a longer period of time.
    Due to aggregation of data we're now seeing issues arise that after a certain period we're no longer able to access detailed monitoring data of that day through SQL Monitor. Being able to access this data in SQL Monitor helps us correlate this data against other monitoring systems even after aggregation.
    Our suggestion would be to add a save button for a…

    4 votes
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  4. AWS FSx drive status

    In our company we are using AWS FSx drives for our SQL Server databases. The FSx drives are not real drives, they are more like a shared folder, I'm wondering if there is a way to add those drives on SQL Monitor so we can check disk space and get alerts. AWS has been adding more features for FSx drives to be used on SQL Servers. Right now the only way to monitor that is using AWS console or alerts, which are not very friendly and only available for some system administrators.

    7 votes
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  5. Central configuration of child base monitors from the parent/central base monitor

    Context: We have a base monitor at our office connected to one or multiple base monitors at our clients environment.

    Problem: To configure the base monitor at our clients location, we need to connect to that base monitor. In order for us to reach that base monitor we have a to connect through multiple VPN's and steppingstones, which makes a simple click a time consuming action for us.

    Desired solution: We want to be able to configure a child base monitor from our central base monitor at our office. For example adding a member tot a group or check on…

    26 votes
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    under review  ·  Neil Turner responded

    We will soon be exploring how to make it easier to configure multiple base monitors.

  6. Disk space alert

    The disk space alert can be configured on Server-Level as a host machine alert, but the alert is fired for every Instance on that host.

    As example, we have 5 instances on a sever, each instance has it's own drive, e.g.
    instance1 on drive d:
    instance2 on drive e:
    instance3 on drive f:
    etc.

    If one instance, e.g. instance2 on drive e: is filling up it disk, the alert is fired for all instances. We would like to see an alert only for the instance that is affected and not 5 alerts.

    1 vote
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  7. Fragmented Indexes

    Would like to add row count and fill factor to the alert as depending on how many rows there are depends on whether a reaction is needed

    Fragmented indexes:
    Index Table name Fragmentation(%) No. of pages

    1 vote
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  8. Fix the column headers for the Top Queries when scrolling

    On the Server Overview "Top Queries" section, it would be helpful if the header row of the table didn't scroll off the screen. I keep scrolling back up to work out if I'm looking at reads/writes/CPU Time/etc.

    5 votes
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  9. Add a process that automatically checks to see if a stand-alone SQL Instance has become an Always-On Availability Group

    There is a stand-alone SQL Instance that is being successfully monitored by SQL Monitor.

    The SQL Instance importance has increased and the SQL Instance becomes an Always-On Availability Group. This change is not detected by SQL Monitor.

    The work around is to remove the SQL Instance from being monitored and re-add, the SQL Instance for monitoring so that the change is detected.

    Add a process that automatically checks to see if a stand-alone SQL Instance has become an Always-On Availability Group or has been removed from a Availability group to become a stand-alone instance once again.

    6 votes
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  10. See job history beyond one month

    Currently the Estate Job page only offers a view of a day, week or month, but sometimes we need to see trends beyond one month.
    Is it possible to add a variable window? Or a fixed one of a year?

    3 votes
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  11. Reduce the suggestions on how to fix queries when viewing Top 10 Queries

    SQL Monitor pops up the text "x issues with this query". Addressing them could improve performance. It then lists some things that might have an impact (e.g. select * instead of listing just the columns that are required) but also lists other things that won't change performance (e.g. not specifying a schema name).

    Can this list be reduced to just what is potentially performance related? Maybe have a 2nd field for best practices if that's considered improtant.

    2 votes
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  12. Dashboard view for multi-instance environment

    We have multi-instance SQL Server on one VM.
    Today on dashboard we have waits for instance, and we need processor usage for instance also.

    We would prefer to have on tile:
    1. Waits for instance
    2. Procesor for instance
    3. Disk i/o for instance

    We should have also tile which grup all instances into machine. On machine tile we shoul have the same information as for instance but measuers would count machine indicators.

    There would be also great if You would add new dashboard view for multi instance environment.

    My proposal for view in atachment (I am not a professional…

    6 votes
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  13. Send alert notifications at the central/parent base monitor

    Context: We have a base monitor at our office connected to one or multiple base monitors at our clients environment.

    Problem: Not all client base monitors are connected to the internet or opening an extra network port is a hard thing to get done. This makes it harder to setup alert notifications from that base monitor.

    Desired solution: Send notification from the parent/central base monitor. This way we only have to set up notification on one central base monitor instead of multiple and use various notification types.

    15 votes
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  14. Webhook notification for Cleared events

    We use Webhook notication to push the alerts to our central ITSM tool. The status "Raised" creates an entry, the status "Ended" deletes the entry in the third-party tool.

    We would also like to be able to use the status "Cleared" to delete entries. For this, a webhook notification would also have to be triggered when the status changes to "Cleared", which is not yet the case.

    2 votes
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  15. list, and get alerts from the SQL Monitor API.

    Add possibility to list, and get alerts from the SQL Monitor API.

    This so we more easily can share and distribute alerts to a users that shouldn't have access to SQL Monitor.

    In my org we have a lot of developers, and a lot of different databases that are hosted on the same clusters, I want the possibility to send more direct alerts and messages to these users.

    42 votes
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  16. custom RPO time

    Custom RPO time. Have the ability to adjust the RPO to its values, for example 5 or 10 min. Not only 15minutes.

    3 votes
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  17. Database name "like" filter for "Database Unavailable" alert

    In our environment we have several systems (3rd party ETL/reporting packages) that create and drop databases as part of their normal operation.

    Would be good if the "Database Unavailable" alert allowed configuring to ignore drops of database names either matching a "LIKE" filter or perhaps more advanced a regex filter.

    12 votes
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  18. Alerts and Notifications Export

    Would love to be able to export all notifications with details into Excel or CSV. Very beneficial to create dashboards, metrics and KPI for all notifications.

    1 vote
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  19. Provide a tile for an Availability group on the main page

    Should be able to see status of an availability group from the front page

    8 votes
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  20. Provide a report on queries with suggestions on improving performance

    When viewing the top 10 queries, we can see suggestions on what may improve the performance for the specific query. Can this functionality be summarized in one report per database to suggest and what indexes could assist with improving performance.

    I would like to see:
    SQL Query, Query statistics, Query plan, Suggestion(s)

    (similar to top 10 but more extensive.)

    Also provide searching capability to look for any suggestion that relates to a specific object.

    This will assist DBAs to specifically drill into a specific issue query and provide instant suggestions on what can be done to improve performance for that…

    5 votes
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