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  1. network adapter name on overview page

    Currently network adapters' interface description is shown on the overview page of a monitored server. i am not interested of that information really, I would see the net adapter name as Get-NetAdapter cmdlet returns. So, Name should be there instead of the description.

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  2. Search metrics on the Analysis page to enable quick way to add them

    There are a lot of metrics in different groups on the Analysis page and searching for a single metric by scrolling through the list is becoming more and more tedious. Please create a way to search for the metric.

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  3. have more flexibility with user permissions.

    I'd like to be able to customize permissions. For instance, I would like an AD group to have the ability to set and remove alert suppressions (operational) but not have admin access to the monitor (administrative).

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  4. I'd like it to be more obvious that an active alert is no longer a current and unresolved issue

    Whenever an issue is flagged, for example in the night, it changed the server to red. Once you click on that, the state is "active" (more un acknowledged I would say if not current). For me it is not clear if that issue is still ongoing or that it had been an issue and is now resolved.
    Can it be made clear what the end time is if the alert is no longer active? (right now only start time is listed)

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  5. Control Alerts For Managed Instances Separately From On Prem.

    Some guidance for Azure SQL Managed Instances is different from on prem SQL Instances. For instance, there is information out there not to just do routine index maintenance and instead do statistics and only rebuild indexes when there is an obvious problem. Having a way to keep our current alerts for on prem and turn this off for Azure would be helpful.

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    Neil Turner responded

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks for your suggestion. Can you provide a bit more context for your suggestion? What goal are you trying to accomplish?

    Would the current ability to control alert settings by group not be sufficient for this?

    Thanks,

    Neil
    (SQL Monitor product designer)

  6. Top 50 Queries should ignore queries that runs with explicit "waitfor"

    The query that runs with explicit "waitfor" should not be included in the top 50 query report.

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  7. Monitor repliction

    Monitor replication (same as replication monitor)

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  8. Add link to disk details on Server details page.

    From the Estate - Disk Usage tab we can select the specific drive to get usage details for that disk.
    When you navigate to a server from the Overview there is a section that shows the Disk Usage at a high level, but no links to drill into the specific disk.

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  9. Email queuing

    Basically, I would like email to queue up in SQL Monitor. In the event an email fails to send (account locked out, mail server down, etc), having the email just fail to send is not the desired result. When problems are resolved, the email should send.
    For example, lets say IT is doing scheduled maintenance on the email server and during that window one of the SQL instances shuts itself down due to an error (for arguments sake, lets say out of disk). SQL Monitor will see it go offline and try to send out the alert but fail because…

    7 votes
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  10. Export/Import Custom metrics/alert configurations

    I'm using RedGate SQL server with different clients. Since the environments are not connected I have to manually create custom metrics/alert configurations for each client which takes quite some time. Also, any change to the custom metrics/alert configurations has to be then deployed by cilcking. Some export to XML or something similar and import wia PowerShell API would be nice.

    15 votes
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  11. Save metrics used on Analysis page and enable quick way to select them from GUI

    I find myself selecting the same SQL metrics when monitoring or analyzing issues.

    It would be nice if I could save metrics and settings for them and next time just select them from the drop-down.

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  12. Add counter [forwarded_record_count] to Analysis page

    As you describe in this article: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/database-administration/sql-server-heaps-and-their-fragmentation/

    forwarded-record-count From sys.dm-db-index-physical-stats

    Please add forwarded-record-count to Analysis page

    Thanks guys!

    14 votes
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  13. Suspend Monitoring of Individual Cluster Nodes

    Alert suppression windows can be applied to groups, clusters, instances, and machines - including individual cluster nodes. Howerer it seems it is only possible to suspend monitoring for instnaces or clusters not individual nodes,

    We recently had a hardware fault and it would have been helpful to suspned monitoring of a specific node whislt the engineer resolved the fault.

    6 votes
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  14. PaaS dbs on an instance appear seperately

    Hi Redgate Support,
    While adding PaaS SQL servers, each database appears individually. Will this change in near future where they appear together with other database on the instance like they do on-prem and on IaaS.

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  15. Long-running query Alert - time based parameters

    I need to disable monitoring long running queries at night.
    My proposal is that you could add new parameter to alerts
    Time from - Time to which will exclude monitoring during this time.

    That will help to exclude ETL - ssis, and other long rununig queries which we set up at night.

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  16. Add Active/Ended as SELECT drop-down options for Events

    The current Alerts page Select drop-down has None/All/Read/Unread

    For events, such as Disk Space, being able to Select "Ended" to get rid of the noise, helps focus on what needs to be addressed.

    If the list doesn't have any Event-type row, don't offer this pair of options.

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  17. Add Active/Ended as SELECT drop-down options for Events

    The current Alerts page Select drop-down has None/All/Read/Unread

    For events, such as Disk Space, being able to Select "Ended" to get rid of the noise, helps focus on what needs to be addressed.

    If the list doesn't have any Event-type row, don't offer this pair of options.

    3 votes
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    under review  ·  Neil Turner responded

    We’ll look into this. In the meantime you can set-up a custom filter for Active or Ended events and use the ‘Select All’ to select these rows.

  18. Improve filters available for alerts

    A recent incident I have been working on revealed to me that filters work based on last update which makes it hard to find alerts that you know would have started around a specific time. The ability to filter on start/end times as well as show this information in view returned.

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  19. be able to switch support for cloud-features and off based on company needs

    Some companies still operate on-premises only, others operate only for Amazon RDS xor Azure. Having all these cloud-database features enabled clutters the user interface and I'd rather like to enable/disable such support through configuration options like
    [ ] enable Amazon RDS
    [ ] enable Azure SQL
    [ ] enable Azure Instance
    ...
    [ ] enable Oracle/xxx/yyy features

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  20. Detailed Memory usage breakdown

    I would like to see a breakdown of memory usage. For example, how much memory is used by the plan cache, how much for the buffer pool, etc.
    Also, a breakdown of memory usage per database.

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