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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.
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Remove "Configure alert" link from alert emails
This is a big issue for me because I send Job Failure alert emails to the development team, but I don't want different people configuring alerts on Redgate Monitor. Only DBA's can make changes to the monitoring configuration.
I don't think the "View full alert details" is necessary either. If developers need to see more information, they can look at the Job History.
4 votes -
deadlock Detailed Report
Please create a detailed deadlock report.
In addition to the existing DeadLock summary report, can you please create a DeadLock Detailed report for all deadlocks for a given time range.
Looking for a DETAILED report of deadlocks (all deadlocks for the time range) that will include:
1. Date / Time of the event
2. Blocking SPID and full query text
3. Duration of the block
3. All Child or deadlock victim SPID and full query text of the victim
Similar to the summary report, will need to be able to select the SQL server instance and / or database to…3 votes -
monitor dedicated sql pool databases.
SQL Monitor need support for Azure Dedicated SQL Pool databases (Synapse, Azure Parallell Data warehouse). Some basic metrics like available DWU's, running queries, top resource hogs etc.
3 votes -
select databases to monitor on Azure SQL Servers
I would like to have the option to pick which Azure SQL Databases to monitor on an Azure SQL Server.
3 votes -
We would like to send slack messages to different channels depending on the server.
We have multiple teams who are ultimately interested in what is wrong with their platform, The posting to a single slack channel is good, however giving an option to send only messages from certain servers to specific channels would improve our customer engagement. currently the main channel is ignored by the all teams except the dba's as the chaff from other servers can cause disinterest, or interest when no reason for a team to investigate.
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Ability to not monitor/show certain queries in the TOP 50 list.
The top 50 query view in SQL monitor is showing the query that is running on the service broker queue with explicit waitfor statement. In our server these waitfor is 5 min and we have 100 threads that runs for 5 minute and wait for the messages in the queue.
The query monitor shows these query as the top slow performing queries, but in reality these are not slow queries, they are just waiting for messages in the queue. We need a way to not show up the queries in top 50 list, so the queries that are actually slow…7 votes -
Attach Custom Documentation To Alerts
I'd like to be able to customize things like an alert that job X has failed with a link to our own documentation on how to troubleshoot that job. It would be even better if these links could carry forwards into the slack notifications but even just having them on the alert page in SQL monitor for that particular alert would be immensely useful.
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Service Level Agreement Metric Report
The following contract metrics are common to many US Government clients. It would be very helpful (and a real time-saver) if SQL Monitor had report that could provide the below listed SLA's in a monthly email to an editable distribution. The report should be .pdf or .xlsx format, with layout intended to communicate to executive audiences. The setup for the report should allow comparing baseline dates. Thanks in advance for considering this idea.
- List of database instances
- Database uptime
- Components that are reaching capacity
- Computer resources growth
- Reserve capacity
- Throughput I/O
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Monitoring of Windows Server Failover Cluster
We would like to have the option to monitor Windows Server Failover Clusters as an integrated part of SQL Monitor. Considering that over 50% of our infrastructure is implemented as Always On High Availability Groups, operating on WSFC, we would like to have monitoring and alerts if something on WSFC level goes wrong such as a node disconnecting, a File Share Witness going down, errors reported in the WSFC console etc... At the moment, if something happens at WSFC, such as loosing quorum due to a file share witness going down, we are not being alerted and will not know…
7 votes -
Word Wrap Alert Comments
Super minor detail, but it would be a more pleasant experience if I didn't have to use a scroll bar to read comments on Alerts. If it were word wrapped in some manner it would make the user experience better for me.
5 votes -
annotation
I would like to be able to trigger an alert and notification when I use the RedgateSQM powershell module's Add-SqlMonitorAnnotation cmdlet.
1 vote -
add data from past to a custom metric
Since data at the current point in time is still being processed and takes about a minute and a half to complete its way around the system a way to add a data point from a few minutes ago for example would be very advantageous.
As a work around currently the metrics all do a
where utc_date between
dateadd(minute,-3,convert(smalldatetime,getutcdate()))
and dateadd(minute,-2,convert(smalldatetime,getutcdate()))
but this means that the data is always two minutes out when compared to the actual raw data2 votes -
In the backup check would like it if we could select the times of the backup to then show that group
in the Estate > backup page you are able to see issues such as RPO 1 week. it would be good to be able to click on this to then show the backups listed (fade the not appropriate backups).
6 votes -
With the AG Groups it would be good to have soft alerting on configurations
With the AG it is possible to have different configuration on the server replicas. We mostly get caught out with Logins. but have had issues with XMLBlob size, linked servers and Server Master Keys.
It would be good for monitor to alert (or be able to alert) if a Login does not exist on both (all) replicas. we have times when a quick addition through SSMS does not put the same login on all side. when fail over occurs we then have broken processing. It would be good for sids to be checked as well as this is another issue…
6 votes -
Avg. lock wait time alert
Be able to have the Avg. lock wait time metric as a configurable alert.
this metric is already available in the analysis tab, but we can't define alert on it.
Avg. lock wait time
The average wait time (in milliseconds) for each lock that could not be satisfied immediately and had to wait for resources.Equivalent PerfMon counter: SQLServer:Locks - Average Wait Time (ms)
4 votes -
Custom metrics and alerts powershell cmdlet
Could there be a cmdlet to create custom metrics and alerts using Powershell
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Export/Import Report configurations
I'm using RedGate SQL server with different clients. Since the environments are not connected I have to manually create Report configurations for each client which takes quite some time. Also, any change to the Report configurations has to be then deployed by cilcking. Some export to XML or something similar and import wia PowerShell API would be nice.
23 votes -
Be able to see and dissect alerts for deadlocks on the AWS RDS platform.
Currently, SQL Monitor does not raise deadlock alerts for AWS RDS database instances. I'd like this functionality to be added, as it's a major feature and selling point for the product.
The current workaround we're using is a combination of AWS performance insights and a SQL script. A "single pane of glass" would be much more efficient.
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LDAPS Support for user authentication for Redgate SQL Monitor
LDAPS Support for user authentication for Redgate SQL Monitor . Now organization want to make the ldap communication to be more secure and moving to LDAPS communication . LDAP will be discontinued soon . When can this be implemented
1 vote
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