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  1. Add an alert to monitor failed logins.

    The sql logs show failed logins, could we have an alert for this?

    15 votes
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  2. add LDAP/NTLM authentication so that Windows domain users can log in as themselves

    That's it, really - configure read-only/read-write access via Active Directory group memberships or user lists built into SQL Monitor, and allow individual users to log in using their own AD credentials.

    142 votes
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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    SQL Monitor 5.0 lets you log in with your AD credentails. Admins can configure individuals or AD groups to have access to SQL Monitor, and have granular access control over which servers users can see.

  3. Add previous/next navigation to Alert Details

    On the Alert Details screen it would be extremely convenient to have the ability to navigate between issues within the same screen. Right now you have to either go back through all of the screens to get back to where you initially went to view the details of the alert, or use your browser's back button, which gives inconsistent behavior. This makes going through a high volume of alerts tedious and cumbersome.

    This could be handled by something as simple as a "previous/next" buttons on the Alert Details screen. Something akin to the "oldest/older/newer/newest" buttons on the Alert Inbox screen.

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    41 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    We have now implemented this suggestion in v3.1.

    During our usability testing we found that ‘newer/older’ was less ambiguous than ‘previous/next’. Filters now persist on the Alert inbox until they are manually cleared, so you can navigate away and always return to the filtered alerts.

    We’re interested to hear your feedback on this feature so please let us know at usability@red-gate.com. Thanks again for the suggestion and comments.

  4. add the ability to have multiple users

    It would be benefical to have an admin account that can allow config changes to be made and also a "guest" user which could review the data that was collected but not modifiy the settings.

    44 votes
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  5. Skip warnings on Database Snapshot Backups

    I'm seeing warnings about backups not getting done on snapshots. Obviously it's not looking at the type.

    16 votes
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  6. Add mirroring monitoring

    I may be wrong but I can't see that you have the capability for mirroring monitoring in the tool. This would make a more persuasive case for replacing Idera if this tool was included.

    38 votes
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  7. Integrate SQL Monitor notifications with devices, ticketing systems and and other monitoring tools

    CONTEXT: SQL Monitor is one of multiple tools I use to monitor my estate, such as SCOM, Tivoli, and OpenView. I would like to consoldate notifications from all of these tools

    PROBLEM: SQL Monitor only sends human-readable email notifications, but other integration points like SNMP traps are not provided out of the box

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    • Provide an SNMP demon against SQL Monitor's alerting data
    • Make SQL Monitor send SNMP notifications out of the box
    • Ability to send SMS or other push notifications
    • Ability to "forward" an alert into a ticketing system

    127 votes
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  8. Show prefered/active node on cluster

    When runnning a database instance on a cluster it would be helpful if you could see on which phusical machine (node) the database instance is active on. It would be very usefull if that information was shown on the global overview page.

    8 votes
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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    This can be seen on the Cluster overview page, in the instances grid – activeness and preferredness differ per FCI

  9. Support for regular expressions

    Most of the alarms need more granular support for excluding/including different things. Using regular expression is a good idea and should be extended further. For example you defenitly need to be able to filter out things from the alarm on the sql server errorlog. Without it's useless.

    74 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion, and for the supporting comments.

    Several alerts now allow you to enter regular expressions to match text you want to ignore, to stop alerts being raised in certain situations.

    For example:
    - Deadlock (XE) alerts can be filtered by database, login name & resource (added in version 8.0.22 released November 13th 2018)
    - Blocking Process alert can be filtered to exclude queries with a SQL process names, SQL commands or objects match regular expressions
    - Job Duration Unusual alerts can exclude jobs matching regular expressions
    - Long Running Query alerts can be filtered to exclude queries with a SQL process names, SQL commands or objects match regular expressions

    We will mark this suggestion as completed, so that the votes can be returned while we continue to look at ways to make alerting more useful. Please make new suggestions for specific improvements you would like to see,…

  10. Add option for more detailed email alert

    It would be good if there were more detail levels of mail alerts.
    Example: I would like to see not only block process, but also which database and object; In case of failover, I would like to see both nodes failed and active ....

    31 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  Priya Sinha responded

    SQL Monitor V 3.3. has now released. This release contains improved subject lines and message bodies of alert emails to help you quickly understand problems before logging in to SQL Monitor.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  11. Include Stored Procedure performance

    Include which stored procedures executed have high CPU, memory utilization, IO consumption. Also, include top wait types on Global Overview in addition to CPU and Memory

    43 votes
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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    The most performance-relevant stored procedures and ad-hoc queries can be inspected with the “Performance Diagnostics” feature on the Instance and Database Overview screens. This information is also replicated in the Performance section of the alert details pages

  12. Periodically or manually request "check disk size" for when SAN Drives are reconfigured on the fly

    We resized the log drive from 100GB to 170GB. SQL Monitor shows 100GB until the base monitor service is restarted.

    Periodically, i.e., once a day, re-check disk sizes.

    Perhaps on the configuration page, show a button to "re-evalute server base characteristics", which would include disk drive sizes.

    10 votes
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  13. Select multiple counters for Analysis

    It would be helpful to see and compare multiple counters for an object in the Analysis tab.

    41 votes
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    completed  ·  Priya Sinha responded

    SQL Monitor v 3.3 has been released. This release contains ability to display multiple metrics in the same Analysis graph to identify correlations and unusual patterns of behavior more easily.

    Thanks
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  14. Allow configuration -> monitored servers to have configurable retries and wait timeouts.

    We have a vpn between our sqlmonitor and several of our sql servers. I'm not sure how often sqlmonitor will retry or wait between retries when that vpn is unavailable due to any number of reasons. When the monitoring becomes unavailable, I would like to be able to allow sql monitor to retry every X seconds for up to X hours or X times as it attempts to reconnect.

    33 votes
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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    As of SQL Monitor 5.0, the retry logic is much more robust, and most users have reported no more issues with SQL Monitor reconnecting

  15. Add the ability to create new alerts

    Instead of limiting the available alerts to a pre-defined list, allow users to create new alerts and threshold metrics based on customized queries. In my opinion, this is about the only glaring omission in the current version of sql Monitor.

    13 votes
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  16. Show the worst queries per database ordered by CPU

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  17. Have ability to sort list of databases on SQL Instance overview

    It might be helpful to have the ability to sort these by name, esp. when this list happens to be quite long. It seems like under the current design they are sorted by database ID.

    I have to scroll past 50+ db's to see the remaining info on the UI - can this be improved? Collapsing the list or adding some filtering, e.g. filter to limit to x# which is then changeable by page index, or filter by other than OK status

    43 votes
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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    This list is sortable as of SQL Monitor 4.0 (it is also truncated by default, making it easier to scroll past it)

  18. Show job name not job ID value for job related alerts

    When viewing SQL Agent job related alerts the identifier is the Id value stored in SQL Server, it would be more useful if this displayed the actual job name.

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  19. Improve the resolution of the analysis graphs

    The analysis graphs don't plot enough points to be able to clearly pick out peaks and troughs in the data -- it all gets averaged out.

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    completed  ·  David Bick responded

    Absolutely. We’ve upped the resolution from 50 data points to 500 or so.

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