Suggestions
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718 results found
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Central configuration of child base monitors from the parent/central base monitor
Context: We have a base monitor at our office connected to one or multiple base monitors at our clients environment.
Problem: To configure the base monitor at our clients location, we need to connect to that base monitor. In order for us to reach that base monitor we have a to connect through multiple VPN's and steppingstones, which makes a simple click a time consuming action for us.
Desired solution: We want to be able to configure a child base monitor from our central base monitor at our office. For example adding a member tot a group or check on…
29 votesWe will soon be exploring how to make it easier to configure multiple base monitors.
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Add Active/Ended as SELECT drop-down options for Events
The current Alerts page Select drop-down has None/All/Read/Unread
For events, such as Disk Space, being able to Select "Ended" to get rid of the noise, helps focus on what needs to be addressed.
If the list doesn't have any Event-type row, don't offer this pair of options.
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Add Active/Ended as SELECT drop-down options for Events
The current Alerts page Select drop-down has None/All/Read/Unread
For events, such as Disk Space, being able to Select "Ended" to get rid of the noise, helps focus on what needs to be addressed.
If the list doesn't have any Event-type row, don't offer this pair of options.
3 votesWe’ll look into this. In the meantime you can set-up a custom filter for Active or Ended events and use the ‘Select All’ to select these rows.
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Improve filters available for alerts
A recent incident I have been working on revealed to me that filters work based on last update which makes it hard to find alerts that you know would have started around a specific time. The ability to filter on start/end times as well as show this information in view returned.
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Avg. lock wait time alert
Be able to have the Avg. lock wait time metric as a configurable alert.
this metric is already available in the analysis tab, but we can't define alert on it.
Avg. lock wait time
The average wait time (in milliseconds) for each lock that could not be satisfied immediately and had to wait for resources.Equivalent PerfMon counter: SQLServer:Locks - Average Wait Time (ms)
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Provide a report on queries with suggestions on improving performance
When viewing the top 10 queries, we can see suggestions on what may improve the performance for the specific query. Can this functionality be summarized in one report per database to suggest and what indexes could assist with improving performance.
I would like to see:
SQL Query, Query statistics, Query plan, Suggestion(s)(similar to top 10 but more extensive.)
Also provide searching capability to look for any suggestion that relates to a specific object.
This will assist DBAs to specifically drill into a specific issue query and provide instant suggestions on what can be done to improve performance for that…
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Be able to see and dissect alerts for deadlocks on the AWS RDS platform.
Currently, SQL Monitor does not raise deadlock alerts for AWS RDS database instances. I'd like this functionality to be added, as it's a major feature and selling point for the product.
The current workaround we're using is a combination of AWS performance insights and a SQL script. A "single pane of glass" would be much more efficient.
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have more flexibility with user permissions.
I'd like to be able to customize permissions. For instance, I would like an AD group to have the ability to set and remove alert suppressions (operational) but not have admin access to the monitor (administrative).
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Monitoring of Windows Server Failover Cluster
We would like to have the option to monitor Windows Server Failover Clusters as an integrated part of SQL Monitor. Considering that over 50% of our infrastructure is implemented as Always On High Availability Groups, operating on WSFC, we would like to have monitoring and alerts if something on WSFC level goes wrong such as a node disconnecting, a File Share Witness going down, errors reported in the WSFC console etc... At the moment, if something happens at WSFC, such as loosing quorum due to a file share witness going down, we are not being alerted and will not know…
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Trigger a device check-in via powershell
We use powershell scripts to shut down and start SQL services before and after maintenance. The scripts create a suppression window before and after as well. However, if the suppression window is removed too soon after the services are up, alerts are still fired because SQL Monitor thinks the server is still down. We workaround this by adding a delay in the scripts, but it's annoying to sit and wait for it. I'd like to be able to force SQL Monitor to check in with the server before removing the alert suppression window.
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Control Alerts For Managed Instances Separately From On Prem.
Some guidance for Azure SQL Managed Instances is different from on prem SQL Instances. For instance, there is information out there not to just do routine index maintenance and instead do statistics and only rebuild indexes when there is an obvious problem. Having a way to keep our current alerts for on prem and turn this off for Azure would be helpful.
1 vote
Neil Turner
responded
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your suggestion. Can you provide a bit more context for your suggestion? What goal are you trying to accomplish?
Would the current ability to control alert settings by group not be sufficient for this?
Thanks,
Neil
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Provide a tile for an Availability group on the main page
Should be able to see status of an availability group from the front page
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Monitor repliction
Monitor replication (same as replication monitor)
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Monitor SSRS
Monitor Reporting services
3 votes -
Database name "like" filter for "Database Unavailable" alert
In our environment we have several systems (3rd party ETL/reporting packages) that create and drop databases as part of their normal operation.
Would be good if the "Database Unavailable" alert allowed configuring to ignore drops of database names either matching a "LIKE" filter or perhaps more advanced a regex filter.
12 votes -
In the backup check would like it if we could select the times of the backup to then show that group
in the Estate > backup page you are able to see issues such as RPO 1 week. it would be good to be able to click on this to then show the backups listed (fade the not appropriate backups).
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With the AG Groups it would be good to have soft alerting on configurations
With the AG it is possible to have different configuration on the server replicas. We mostly get caught out with Logins. but have had issues with XMLBlob size, linked servers and Server Master Keys.
It would be good for monitor to alert (or be able to alert) if a Login does not exist on both (all) replicas. we have times when a quick addition through SSMS does not put the same login on all side. when fail over occurs we then have broken processing. It would be good for sids to be checked as well as this is another issue…
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We would like to send slack messages to different channels depending on the server.
We have multiple teams who are ultimately interested in what is wrong with their platform, The posting to a single slack channel is good, however giving an option to send only messages from certain servers to specific channels would improve our customer engagement. currently the main channel is ignored by the all teams except the dba's as the chaff from other servers can cause disinterest, or interest when no reason for a team to investigate.
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PaaS dbs on an instance appear seperately
Hi Redgate Support,
While adding PaaS SQL servers, each database appears individually. Will this change in near future where they appear together with other database on the instance like they do on-prem and on IaaS.1 vote -
Word Wrap Alert Comments
Super minor detail, but it would be a more pleasant experience if I didn't have to use a scroll bar to read comments on Alerts. If it were word wrapped in some manner it would make the user experience better for me.
5 votes
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