Suggestions
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Include drive letter in subject and body of disk space alert email
It would be helpful to know which drive (by letter) the alert information detail is about in the email. The drive letter should be included in the subject line such as Disk space | ServerName | E:\ as well as in the body of the email. This information helps identify the problem drive without having to go to SQL Monitor for that information.
15 votesThis enhancement will be in the next version of SQL Monitor
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2 votes
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 -
Globally enable/disable monitoring
We would like the ability to quickly turn off and on all monitoring and alerting globally. This would be usefull when we have major outage that we become aware of and start to work on, however alerts get generated very quickly and can overwhelm the email system or support phone. It would be great if we could continue to collect performance metrics but stop all alerts until the problem is resolved.
6 votesGo to Manage Monitored Servers, Select All, Suspend.
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One-time Maintenance Window
We perform updates to (nearly) all our Windows servers on our domain monthly. I'd like see the ability to set a maintenance window and have it removed once it has passed, rather than having the maintenance window fixed to set time every week.
One use case is "silencing" alert generation while investigation is in progress
71 votesThanks 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
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Configure disk space alerts at individual disk level
I'm able to get away with some disks running closer to capacity than others. (not all drives hold SQL!) it would be nice to be able configure alerts to reflect this and have the email alert display which disk is causing the problem.
4 votesThis feature already exists in the product.
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Analysis | Allow for custom versus comparisons
It would be useful to compare a custom time range between different days such as 08:00 - 10:00 for this Monday and the Monday before.
6 votesThis has now been implemented in v3.4.
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SQL Monitor Development Team -
Disk Names in Overviews and Analysis
Disk Names in Overviews and Analysis
Hello,
I think that it will be usefull to have a same disk names in Overviews and Analysis as they are shown in the system in Disk Management.ServerData (F:)
ServerLogs (G:)
Server_System (H:)Not only F: G: H: as they are visible now in SQL Monitor.
Thank you.15 votesThis has been implemented in SQL Monitor 4.2
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Alert Details - Performance Data - Top 10 expensive queries - Bug
The "Top 10 expensive queries" tab under the "Performance Data" section of the "Alert Details" view shows "Totals" data by default even though the "Avg. per execution" radio option is selected by default.
This can be confirmed by changing the selection to totals and then back to average.
Observed in Web Version 3.2.1.231
6 votesHi, thanks for pointing this out to us. It has been fixed in version 3.3
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I would like to see a better dashboard view
One where I can see a cumulative report of ALL of the instances being monitored with average totals for cpu/memory/disks utilization, across them all. Average success to failure ratios for Scheduled jobs (backups).
27 votesWe implemented a new global dashboard in the 5.2 release, which shows an overview of all instances on one screen.
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Alert if any data collection of metrics values stops unexpectedly
For some reason our data collection stops every other week for certain metrics. Restarting the SQLMonitor-service will make the service resume collecting again.
As it is now we have to inspect each metric manually to identify problems.
I would like an alert if any data collection stops unexpectedly.3 votesThis feature already exists in SQL Monitor.
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Multiple Maintenance Windows
I would like to be able to set two maintenace windows every day.
98 votesThanks for this suggestion. SQL Monitor 10 now allows teams to suppress alerts, or just their notifications, over certain periods using alert suppression windows. Multiple windows can be set-up. 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
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Enable changing Alert levels on Clock Skew alerts
I would like to be able to change the alert level from high to medium or even low.
It would be nice if the alert level would be set depending on the skew size, so that for example low level could mean 5 second, medium at 10 seconds and high at 30 seconds.I would like to do this, since we receive the alert occasionally from our test server (is gets cleared rather quickly so it is no big issue for us).
7 votesThanks for this suggestion. Apologies for not updating at the time, but this suggestion was completed in version 8.0.10 in July 2018.
We will mark this as completed but please do let us know if you have any further feedback.
Kind regards,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
2 votes
Hi Ben,
Thanks for letting us know about this bug in our validation logic. It will be fixed in the upcoming version of SQL Monitor
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is there fix in the works for IE10?
In order to see almost anything, need to put browser into IE9 compatibility and some features still not showing like current server stats
1 voteThe update has now been released. SQL Monitor will display a message above the product name banner when it next checks for updates.
Alternatively, you can get it direct from http://www.red-gate.com/dynamic/products/dba/sql-monitor/download then click the ‘Returning customer installer download’ link on right.
Please let us know if this doesn’t fix the issue for you.
Thanks
SQL Monitor Development Team -
occurrences
Please retain a "tombstone" that can be referenced to present a history of "Occurrences" for HIGH Alerts. Allow us an additional retention period so these don't hang around forever - but please don't limit the number of days, just a smallint would be good.
When Monitoring Fails and is cleared, the Occurrence disappears when DB maint nukes "old cleared Alerts". If the retention period is short, say 14 days, the history of occurrences is soon lost.
A "tombstone" would at least keep the occurrences for trending.
6 votesJust keep the alert data in the Purge settings indefinitely – it’s only the metadata of the alerts, none of the performance data, so are “tombstones” as you described
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Monitoring error (SQL Server data collection) - SAVE THE ERROR LOG
When one of these occurs it is 99.999% likely that, in the middle of the night, I will NOT jump out of bed, fire up the laptop, connect to the SQL Monitor Server and look at the SQL Monitor Error Log IN THE 5 MINUTES I HAVE BEFORE THE ENTRY IS LOST! May I cite the "Description" tab in SQL Monitor: "If the alert is still Active, or it Ended within the last five minutes, you can find out more information about its cause..." So we, ANYONE THAT IS, has a mere FIVE MINUTES to react to this before "see…
8 votesCompleted in SQL Monitor 5.0.3
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Increase user granularity and allow creating more than the 3 built in user accounts.
Increase user granularity and allow creating more than the 3 built in user accounts. For example, we have an offshore development team that would like access to their SQL instance, but can’t have access to any other instances. What I would like to do is to be able to create an account, assign permissions to that account against databases or instances, limiting the access they have to production systems. If we could get it to use AD integration rather than forms authentication as well as being able to set permissions granularly then that would be ideal.
86 votesSQL Monitor 5.0 introduces Active Directory integration with granular control over which user sees what. Please note that you will need to enable Active Directory authentication in order to make use of this functionality
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Add an option to alias the server names.
In a multi-server environment it would be very helpful to be able to assign an alias to the server name. So at a glance you can see something like - 192.168.1.1 (Company A OLTP)
Merged idea: Longer descriptions for Servers, Databases etc
48 votesClosing this suggestion as the server alias work was completed in v5.2.2.
However, there is not currently a way to alias cluster/machine names, so if that is important please raise it as a new suggestion as we could look to address it if there is demand.
If you are experiencing problems with server aliases, please let us know via the support forums.
Thanks
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..retry operations that fail during install/ initial connection to server. Such as at my server where DBCC TRACEON (1204,-1) failed. In that
..retry operations that fail during install/ initial connection to server. Such as at my server where DBCC TRACEON (1204,-1) failed. In that case, retrying would be good, to ensure that it is eventually turned on.
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Order databases alphabetically in the Analysis view
In the analysis tab, when you select the metrics and the server, where there is a database list, the list of databases is not ordered alphabetically. It would be much easier to find the database you want to look at if it was ordered - especially on servers with lots of databases.
7 votes
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