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Welcome to the Redgate SQL Monitor feature suggestions list. Tell us how we can improve SQL Monitor by voting on these suggestions or by submitting your own ideas.

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  1. Check the plan cache ad-hoc or on a schedule to report issues

    implicit conversion,
    scans,
    lookups and the index that didn't have the columns include
    missing indexes
    Parameter sniffing
    etc...
    Report the issues based on impact number

    2 votes
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  2. Login via https

    Is there a configuration setting to force the SQL Monitor login page (or entire site, preferably) to https?

    10 votes
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  3. Alert Stats on the new Cards

    Those new cards look very nice, BUT, they do not show anything about the alerts raised on the instance!

    That's a shocking omission, IMO.

    Please add something that shows the alerts, like the old Overview page did, like counts by severity, with colors!

    3 votes
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  4. Click on CPU part of the server block on global dashboard (version 5.2) leads me to serveroverview instead of graph

    I would suspect to go to the graph (analysis tab) after I click on the CPU part of a serverblock (in Global Dashboard), instead of the server overview

    1 vote
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  5. Additional parameters for filtering Long-running query alerts

    Long-running query alerts

    Example: Creation of ability for you to filter the queries it alerts on based on a regular expression

    Source Ticket:
    https://redgatesupport.zendesk.com/hc/requests/65981

    Possible closely related feature request:
    https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11123559-triage-and-configure-repeating-alerts-more-efficie

    7 votes
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  6. Configure Data Purge by Server/Instance or at least by Server group.

    I would like to keep production server performance data for a month or more but the dev server data can be purged after a couple of weeks.

    24 votes
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  7. I only have one SQL Server, take me to the instance Overview instead of global dashboard

    I only have one SQL Server instance, instead of seeing one small bit of info and having to click that in the new global dashboard, take me directly into the instance so I can get relevant info on first login/site visit. Think about your design when we just have one server.

    5 votes
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  8. I wish the mouse wheel did not automatically modify the date scale in the Analysis graph.

    I can't count the number of times I have unintentionally messed up a graph with the mouse wheel. It is quite annoying to me.

    6 votes
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  9. Monitor SSAS databases

    I would like to be able to monitor SSAS cubes and data structures in the same fashion as SQL databases.

    53 votes
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  10. Group / Sort custom metrics

    We have a lot of custom metrics and the current interface is not robust, being able to group / sort metrics in folders or in a tree would be very useful. Also the selection box in the analysis tab is not large enough to navigate a useful number of custom metrics

    5 votes
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  11. SQL Monitor self update (or one click update)

    Instead of downloading and running a wizard, I would like to see a way for SQL Monitor to self update, or to have a 'one click' update button built in the interface.

    27 votes
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  12. Quick view of whether Agent is up on all monitored servers

    If I go to the Configuration > Monitored servers tab, I can quickly see if all SQL Servers are up and running. It would be nice to also be able to quickly see if all SQL Server Agent services are up and running.

    3 votes
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  13. SQL Monitore: I would like to see the response time I/O of database files.

    SQL Monitore: I would like to see the response time I/O of database files. Currently it is showing only on instance level but how can I see response time of a particular
    database.

    11 votes
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  14. Alert based upon trend data

    We want to be able to alert when a value changes dramatically over a period of time. so if a system returns 110,105,112,40,38,52

    to eye ball that on a graph I can see there is a problem, however that may be at the peak time of the day and 38 might be a reasonable value for in the middle of the night, so having a threshold of a low value is not appropriate, the comparison mode of query for this situation would report a change of
    -5,+7,-72,-2,+14

    in here there is one large drop but then it is running stable,…

    3 votes
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  15. Filter disk space alerts for Quourum disks

    Add a new criteria to the Disk monitoring, that allows me NOT to monitor disks that have less than X GB/MB of Total disk space.

    13 votes
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  16. Allow trace to be set at the individual alert level and severity

    SQL Trace can highly impact the performance of the server. I can't benefit from trace right now as it's set on any alert to launch a trace.

    Other monitoring tools, for instance Sql Sentry, allow the individual alert to be configured with settings for trace.

    For example: A long running job might benefit from a trace, while a "dbcc checkdb " hasn't been run in a long time should not trigger a trace. This increases storage and server load for no benefit.

    Please look into allowing traces to be configured based on the alert AND the severity level defined on…

    6 votes
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  17. Show a log of query activity

    CONTEXT: When investigating a performance issue, I want to know what has been running

    PROBLEM: SQL Monitor has rich query information on the overview screens, the performance diagnostics panels, and the query alerts, and the query trace in alert detail reports, but it's difficult to tie that information together

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    - Implement a query log
    - Show query information on the analysis graph

    45 votes
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  18. Make comments apply to alert types, rather than individual incidents

    CONTEXT: We use comments to document the root cause of alerts we encounter

    PROBLEM: When alerts repeat, recovering the comments is a pain - they only apply to individual occurences, so don't get surfaced when they issues re-occur.

    EXAMPLE SOLUIONS:
    - Show historical comments in alerts
    - When creating alerts, allow us to choose whether this applies to the whole alert type

    ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS:
    Comments should also show when configuring alerts

    32 votes
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  19. Control Alerts Using Metadata

    CONTEXT: We have a maintenance and backup solution which uses SQL Server as a backend to determine what databases to perform the tasks against, and at what time.

    PROBLEM: Some databases do not have maintenance tasks running against them, but still have alerts which appear in SQL Monitor for them (e.g. Index Fragmentation). I don't want to manually exclude these from SQL Monitor, as the number of databases fluctuates, particularly on our testing and development environments.

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    - Provide a means of easily enabling/disabling/changing alerts dynamically using a stored procedure.

    1 vote
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    Daniel Rothig responded

    For your usecase I recommend modifying the maintenance window metadata instead:

    UPDATE s SET MW_IsEnabled = 1, —or 0 to enable alerts again MW_Start=0, —midnight MW_Duration=864000000000, —24 hours MW_Monday = 1, MW_Tuesday =1, MW_Wednesday=1, MW_Thursday=1, MW_Friday=1, MW_Saturday=1, MW_Sunday=1 FROM [settings].[SqlServers] s INNER JOIN [settings].[Clusters] c ON c.Id = s.ParentId WHERE c.Name = ‘hostname’ AND s.Name = ’’ —Set to SQL Server name or leave empty for unnamed instances

    A restart of the base monitor service will be required after the change

  20. Baseline machine metrics across cluster failovers

    CONTEXT: Using the Analysis graph for historical performance analysis of machine metrics on a cluster that failed over at least once

    PROBLEM: Machine metrics are collected per node. Baselines of only one node can be shown at a time, and so no baseline view of performance on the "active" component can be synthesised.

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    • Enable multiple simultaneous baselines
    • Implement synthetic (bimodal) baselines across cluster nodes
    • Provide synthetic metrics for entites on the "active" component of a cluster

    What do you think about these solutions? Got another idea? Let us know in the comments!

    18 votes
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