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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.19 votes -
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 -
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 -
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.1 vote -
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.
6 votes -
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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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 votesWe’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.
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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.
1 vote -
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 features5 votes -
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.8 votes -
In SQL Monitor, I want to use a variable description in a custom alert.
Some custom metrics could be about things like a specific disk, job or DB-object. At this moment it's not possible to specify those in a generic Alert.
If besides the metric value a descriptive value was allowed, it would be possible to parse the descriptive value into the Alert.3 votes -
Overlay Alerts on the Analysis page
Please add overlay alerts and annotations on the Analysis page. This would simplify the analysis and finding correlations.
16 votes -
A way to showcase all SQL Statements running for a specific time frame
A way to showcase all SQL Statements running for a specific time frame. This is will be helpful to investigate any issue that occurred in the past.
5 votes -
Monitor Azure SQL Read Scale-out Database
I would like to monitor the Read Scale-out Azure SQL DB that gets created when on Business Critical tier.
We are moving our Read queries to this database using "ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly" specified in the connection string. SQL Monitor allows to configure the primary for monitoring but provides no options to add a connection string when adding a server so am unable to add the secondary read-only DB for monitoring.26 votes -
Be able to schedule a maintenance window with the possibility to use an offset.
Be able to schedule a maintenance window with the possibility to use an offset. Say every 3rd tuesday of the month + 12 days.
5 votes -
Trigger a device check-in via powershell
We use powershell scripts to shut down and start SQL services before and after maintenance. The scripts create a suppression window before and after as well. However, if the suppression window is removed too soon after the services are up, alerts are still fired because SQL Monitor thinks the server is still down. We workaround this by adding a delay in the scripts, but it's annoying to sit and wait for it. I'd like to be able to force SQL Monitor to check in with the server before removing the alert suppression window.
3 votes -
Show/Hide metrics on Analysis page
Please add an option to show/hide selected metrics on the Analysis page. Something similar to the Reports graph would do.
13 votes -
Monitor SSRS
Monitor Reporting services
3 votes -
Monitor Disk Overallocation
Recently we ran into disk space issues on a server. Looking into that, it was discovered that a 10TB database had 3TB in "Unused" space. That is the space was allocated to a table, but the table needed to be reorganized to recover the space. sp_spaceused shows this space, and a disk report of top tables clearly showed the Unused space. This was not something that Redgate noticed. Going back over our estate, we discovered there were more such databases where we could recover space. This could also be noted at an individual file level. Reorganizing that one database has…
2 votes -
see an administrative web-based log viewer
Having the ability to review logs in a web-based interface is useful for administrators of a tool so we can diagnose and remedy some problems without needing to reach out to support. The downside is the log needs to be filterable or multiple log files need to exist.
An example of a log that would be useful would be an email log. In the event an email fails to send, I'd like to know why without needing to download the entire log in a zip, extract the zip locally, and browse through it when I am looking for a specific…2 votes
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