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  1. deadlock

    Add the ability to customize deadlock alerts. I want to able to ignore alerts if the deadlock was on table XXXXX or produced by stored procedure YYYYYY
    or have different alert levels depending on the database and table.

    45 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. We will close this now as there have been no new comments since we released the new filters.

    However, please do raise new suggestions for anything you feel hasn’t been addressed, so we are able to consider them as we continue to improve SQL Monitor.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  2. Add the calling module/process in "Blocking process" alerts

    In the Details tab of a Blocking Process alert the process name of the blocking process is included. It would be very useful if this was included in the "Blocked process" info on the processes tab. This would assist us in working out what it is that the blocked process is trying to access because the SQL fragment is often too generic to be useful.

    13 votes
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  3. Email reports monthly

    I just upgraded to SQL Monitor V7 and it's great being able to have custom metrics in reports. We have a metric that records how many customers are notified in a monthly process (runs overnight on the 1st of the month). We need a way to send out this report via email on the 1st of every month (current options are only to send it weekly)

    10 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    The ability to email reports on a monthly schedule has now been released.

    Please make a new suggestion if there are any areas of the reporting you think could be improved.

    Kind regards,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  4. Sortable System Processes Grid

    On the Alert Details page, it would be nice if I could sort the grid under the "System Processes" tab. It currently shows processes sorted alphabetically by name. I would like to sort it by CPU or memory utilization to see top consumers. I currently have to copy the data to a spreadsheet to do that.

    10 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    This suggestion, allowing the system processes grid in alert details to be sortable, was completed in Version 6.0.18 – apologies for not updating at the time.

    Thanks for the suggestion – please reply if you feel it needs further attention.

    Kind regards
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  5. suspend

    Hi,
    I think it's very important to show Suspended status of a monitored host/instance should be shown in dashboard.
    I had suspended monitoring on an instance and forgot to resume so I've missed monitoring for a while.
    I suggest to show the state of monitoring (Active or Suspended) maybe graphically/iconic, in the dashboard and Server overview pages

    10 votes
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  6. Historical graph of how one query/Stored procedure is performing now compared to 2 months back

    Choose from top 50 of worst queries and check what is the difference now compared to the stats in the past in graphical view and create custom reports with graphical view

    30 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thank you for this suggestion. A graph showing a query’s history was added to the Server Overview Top Queries table in Version 7.1.11 in November 2017. This allows you to see a query’s performance over time, view its execution count, duration, reads, and writes, and the points in time a query’s plan changed.

    We will close this suggestion, but please do raise another suggestion if you have other specific improvements you’d like to see.

    Kind regards,
    Adam
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  7. improve speed when navigating through the GUI

    It takes quite sometime to navigate across the screens on V6.0 would be a welcome relief if we have performance improvement on the UI

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for raising your suggestion. We’ve made a number of performance improvements over recent releases. Whilst we will continue to make improvements, hopefully this meets your expectation regarding this suggestion, so I will close this issue.

    If you have any specific issues or suggestions around performance, please reply to this or raise another UserVoice suggestion so we can investigate.

    Thanks
    Adam

  8. I want to be able to document in SQL Monitor why an alert is set a certain way.

    On the alert configuration screen for any alert, at any level I would like to see a comment type box where I can enter in the box the reason the alert is set as it is.

    For example if I have disabled the backup overdue alert for a particular database I would like to be able to save that reason in this comment box. Or if I have changed the disk space usage for a particular drive on a server different than the default I want to be able to document the reason why.

    I want to see this box…

    21 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thank you for this suggestion, it makes sense to want to record why certain configuration changes have been made.

    We released this enhancement in version 8.0.10 (in July this year – apologies for delay in updating this suggestion).

    I will mark this suggestion as Completed, but please do reply if you have any further feedback.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  9. Sort or Filter Monitored Servers

    In Configuration -> Monitored servers I would like to sort and filter the servers and have the grouping functionality applied to this screen. This would make it easier to find my server that I want to put a maintenance window on.

    38 votes
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  10. Add AM PM or military time to alert times since they aren't listed

    Process login time: 3 Nov 2016 09:00
    Query start time: 3 Nov 2016 09:00
    Would either want them in military time, or listed w/ AM PM so I know when they occurred

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Closing as this has been available since 6.0.7
    You can find this option on Configuration > Display settings. Please let us know if this is not working as you expect.
    Thanks

  11. See more detail on Failed Agent Jobs

    Present the detailed Step error message for Agent Job Failures. Currently shows the Job message, but not the error from the step that actually failed. This requires the user to open SSMS and drill down to find what caused the failure, instead of getting a head start from SQL Monitor.

    53 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for the suggestion and votes. This was completed in version 7.1.2. I will close this – please let us know if you believe there are further improvements we could make.

    Kind regards,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  12. to see 24-hour clock affecting times on graphs

    I see the setting and it is set and in most places it is used but not in the time axis on graphs in analysis.

    6 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    We have just released version 7.1.3, available from Check for Updates, which fixes this issue.

    Thanks for the suggestion, and for your patience,

    Adam

  13. Allow option to exclude Integrity Check Overdue Alert for read only databases

    An alert configuration option should allow
    a database status to be checked when querying for last good integrity checks and read_only databases could be excluded from the alert. Even when integrity checks are performed on read only databases, the last checked date is not updated resulting in unnecessary alerts in most cases.

    8 votes
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  14. Disable Chat functionality

    It would be nice to have an Option to disable the built in chat functionality. I understand this is a quick easy method for obtaining feedback from the user community. The issue I have is that this is not an "Approved Chat Client" according to my info sec unit.

    Having the ability to turn it off allows me to satisfy their requirements while still allowing this to be enabled for other users to quickly interact and provide feedback to RedGate.

    6 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    After upgrading to SQL Monitor 6.0.8 or later you can now disable the intercom chat feature.

    After upgrading navigate to the following file C:\Program Files\Red Gate\SQL Monitor\Web\Website\web.config

    and amend the line

    intercom enabled=“true”

    to be false, then restart the website.

    Further details can be found here:
    https://forums.red-gate.com/viewtopic.php?f=205&t=80218&sid=76afdd87b11da381fcb31901d658270a#p143776

    Thanks for your patience with this issue,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  15. Block Specific Deadlocks by Lock Details

    We've just updated to SQL Monitor 6. We was hoping there was a feature in this to change alert settings for Deadlocks with specific lock details rather than just all Deadklocks.

    For example
    we don't want email alerts on: Deadlock 'object: ReportServerTempDB.dbo.SessionLock, lock mode: Exclusive (X), index: IDX_SessionLock

    However we wish to receive emails when: Deadlock 'dbid: 6, object id: 72057594038845440, index id: (9bf78693a4b4)'

    However this feature doesn't exist. Would be great to have added to an update in the near future!

    42 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion and the comments.

    As previously announced, since version 8.0.22 (released November 13th, 2018) Deadlock (XE) alerts can now be filtered by database, login name & resource, and victimless (eg Exchange Event) deadlocks are excluded by default.

    We are marking this as complete, but please do let us know if you have any further feedback.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  16. Relative-day maintenance windows

    Rackspace maintenance days revolve around, for example, "Default week - Wednesday - 02:00 to 04:00", where "default week" is established in the service contract. That can change to early-week or (I forget the name) "late-week".

    Current SQL Monitor Maintenance Windows are wholly inadequate to record a "Default week is 2nd week of each month, maintenance on that week's Wednesday, at (the time period)".

    Without this, my PagerDuty Alerts go berserk during maintenance windows, and shy of having someone go and suspend monitoring at 2 in the morning and remember to turn it back on, it just keeps on sending out…

    8 votes
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    completed  ·  AdminNeil Turner (Admin, Red Gate Software) responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. SQL Monitor 10 now allows teams to suppress alerts, or just their notifications, over certain periods using alert suppression windows. Please see What’s New in SQL Monitor 10 for more details (https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/sql-monitor/whats-new-in-sql-monitor-10).

    We hope this meets requirements and will mark it as completed. Please raise further suggestions for any improvements you would like to see.

    Thanks,

    SQL Monitor product team

  17. Don't bloat plan cache

    Fix this query so the nvarchar() parm is of a fixed size (or MAX). As is, each invocation is generating its own execution plan and bloating the plan cache.

    (@p0 bigint,@p1 bigint,@p2 nvarchar(560))INSERT INTO [data].[ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesInstances] ([Id], [CollectionDate], [QueryText]) VALUES (@p0, @p1, @p2)

    (@p0 bigint,@p1 bigint,@p2 nvarchar(159))INSERT INTO [data].
    [ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesInstances] ([Id], [CollectionDate], [QueryText]) VALUES (@p0, @p1, @p2)

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Completed in v6.0.3
    Thanks again for the suggestion, we appreciate your input.
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  18. "CLEARED" alerts button should be renamed to "CLEAR".

    On the alerts screen, there is an option to select alerts. If you want to clear the alerts selected you hit the button labeled "CLEARED".

    Having the button marked "CLEARED" is confusing because it implies that the button is a filter rather than an action. It should be labeled "CLEAR" so you know you are performing an action.

    8 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion.

    We agree the labels were confusing so this was fixed in version 8.0.2 in March (apologies for delay in updating) when the new inbox was released. The button now reads ‘Clear’ as you suggested.

    Thanks again,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  19. SQL Monitor 5.2.5 upgrade dashboard server/SQL Server memory

    Upon upgrading from 5,1 to 5.2.5 the new Global Dashboard no longer shows machine memory vs. memory being consumed by SQL Server. Why was this removed? This can be critical to see if SQL Server or any other process is using up all of the servers memory.

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. Apologies for not closing this sooner as it was completed a long time ago; we did agree that we should show machine memory vs. SQL Server memory and this is shown on the Server Overview memory chart.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  20. Navigation for "rewind time" shouldn't hide navigation buttons

    The navigation controls for "rewind time" autohide when actively using this feature. Please consider enabling until "live" is chosen again to simplify operation to move back and forth in time increments.

    Issue submitting first time. if duplicate please close.

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Closing this because the v6 server overviews no longer have this particular time control so hopefully this bug is no longer relevant.

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