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  1. 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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    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    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

  2. 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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    3 comments  ·  Admin →
    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

  3. 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

  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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  ·  Neil Turner 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

  8. 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

  9. "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

  10. 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.

    3 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Admin →
    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

  11. 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.

  12. On the main dashboard please maintain a consistent ordering.

    Dashboard element sorting should be fixed preferably in alphabetical order. The whole idea of a dashboard should be to provide an at a glance view of the state of your server set. When you change the order from servername when all is green to some other order because something has triggered an alert on a server I have to spend extra time figuring out which server has an issue because the sort order has changed.

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Version 6.0.11 has now been released and amongst the enhancements is the ability to fix the servers in alphabetical order (Oder by: Name).

    If you have any feedback, email sqlmonitorfeedback@red-gate.com

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  13. Alert History on new Overview - Don't show Cleared Alerts

    The slide-out Alert pane is useful on the Overview IF, and ONLY IF, under normal circumstances we want to see NON-cleared Alerts, like the default filter on the Alerts page itself.

    Please make this pane behave like the Alert page's filter, and allow us to re-filter, to include cleared if we want to. But at the very least allow us to set a default filter (in my case NON-cleared).

    Thanks.

    7 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Hi, thanks for the suggestion. The version 6.0.10 release added the ability to show/hide cleared and ended alerts from the timeline and alert sidebar on server overviews. We intend to add this to the global dashboard soon. Hopefully this solves the issue.

  14. Push 5.2 Alias down to Analysis and beyond

    The write-up about the 5.2 Alias feature waxes almost lyrical about how much we would like it...

    Until you open the Analysis page and see the old names - in my case unintelligible I.P. addresses. Sad, very sad...

    Please make Aliases utterly pervasive, as in Analysis, Configuration => Monitored Servers (I.P. list), emails (just to make sure they're not overlooked).

    3 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    I’m closing this suggestion because the server aliases were fixed in v5.2.2.

    However, there is currently no way to alias cluster/machine names, so if this is important, please do raise this as a suggestion as we could look to address that if there is demand

  15. Multiple group select on new Global Dashboard version 5.2

    As an administrator, I want to be able to select one or more groups for displaying on the new global dashboard (added in version 5.2). Now you see all groups or one group.

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  16. Show deadlock alerts using the deadlock graph

    Display deadlocks alerts in a more graphical and easier to understand way.

    35 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. Version 8.0.2 uses extended events to display graphs for the deadlocks.

    We will close this suggestion, but please do add another suggestion if there are further improvements you would like to see.

    Kind regards,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  17. Receive an alert for the process that is blocking not the process being blocked.

    We recently upgraded our SQL Monitor to version 5.1 and it appears there has been a change in the Blocking process metric. Before the upgrade we received an alert about a process that was blocking and after the upgrade it appears we receive an alert for each of the processes being blocked. We have set the threshold for 90 seconds and if there are three processes that are 30 seconds that total the 90 seconds, we receive an alert. However we don’t want to receive an alert for the 30 second blocked processes. Is there a way we can understand…

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  18. Bring back the ability to list fragments of T-SQL to reduce Blocking Process alerts, please

    By FAR the largest number of abject NUISANCE Blocking Process alerts I get across 17 servers is due to a simple "How is fragmentation going?" query from a 3rd party product (Idera Defrag Manager).

    Looks like this:

    use [DBName] declare @indexId int declare @dbId int declare @tblId int declare @partitionId int set @partitionId = 0 select @dbId = ISNULL(DBID(),-1) if @dbId=-1 RAISERROR( N'Database does not exist or permission denied: %s', 16, 1, '[DBName]' ) else begin select @tblId = ISNULL(OBJECTID('[DBName].[dbo].[TableName]') ,-1) if @tblId=-1 RAISERROR( N'Table does not exist or permission denied: %s', 16, 1, '[DBName].[dbo].[TableName]' ) else begin…

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Version 6.0.16 has now been released and this includes the ability to add regular expression filters to blocking process alerts. We hope this completes your suggestion.

    Thanks, SQL Monitor Team

  19. Add "Re-send Email" for an Alert

    Some emails find black holes. Need option in the "Actions" dropdown to re-send an Alert email. Please pop-up the addressee dialog so we can direct/redirect to recipient list and add a custom subject to help us segregate the email into an email thread for discussion/attention.

    15 votes
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  20. Custom reports against alerts, queries and metrics

    CONTEXT: We want to see the bigger picture arising from the data presented in SQL Monitor.

    PROBLEM: Currently you can't pull together a report in the SQL Monitor UI, and the monitoring database is not particularly accessible. We need reports against:
    - The metrics shown in the analysis graph
    - The top queries and waits
    - The alerts raised over time
    - Server configuration and SLA

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    - Provide reporting scripts against the monitoring database
    - Privide a BI interface against the monitoring database
    - Priovide richer data-export functionality in the UI
    - Provide a report designer in the…

    263 votes
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