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2 votes
Hi, thanks for this suggestion.
We have added a button to the query plan that allows the full in-truncated text to be copied to clipboard.
We hope this improvement solves the suggestion so will mark it as completed. Please do let us know if you have any further feedback.
Thanks,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
suppress emails during maintenance window
Allow the ability to suppress all alert emails during a maintenance window. Right now we have ~65 SQL servers and during windows when the OS team is patching and rebooting the servers we can receive 100's of emails as the servers go up and down. It would be great if we could set a schedule or at the very least a single use window when emails don't get sent.
2 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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Be able to identify Base Monitors by a user friendly name in a MSP Solution
For example in the "Manage Servers" screen, when using a MSP Solution, it's only possible to view the actual names entered on the Base Monitor Configuration page.
Without having to resort to a DNS work-around for this issue, it would be nice to add the option to use a "Display Friendly name" instead of the name of the Base Monitor Server.
That way, people who don't know which individual server belongs to which individual client or base monitor, can easily identify them based on their displayname.2 votesThis is now possible from version 11.0.4
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Change "Blocking Processes" icon
To quicker navigate through the menus when collapsed, better distinct icons would be helpful.
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Show job name not job ID value for job related alerts
When viewing SQL Agent job related alerts the identifier is the Id value stored in SQL Server, it would be more useful if this displayed the actual job name.
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1 vote
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Change colour of chart line
When viewing a single metric chart in 'Analysis', the line is a yellow-golden colour, which I find horrible (just my opinion) and hard to focus on - can this be configurable?
1 voteThis was completed in 3.0 – apologies for not updating sooner.
We changed the colour palette and improved it. We have still had to use yellow due to the number of dbs it’s possible to display, but it will be used last and is more of a mustard/orange yellow now. We’ve also deepened other colours so the Analysis page should be easier to view.
We hope this is fixes the problem – thanks for the suggestion – and we welcome any feedback.
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Report average page life expectancy
The "page life expectancy" performance counter can be a good indicator of an impending performance problem. It's in the "Buffer Manager" performance object.
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Invistigate v3.0 EAP Base Service CPU utilization
I first installed v2.3 and then switched to v3.0 EAP. It seems that the base service is maxing out CPU utilization which was not the case with 2.3.
1 voteMarking this as complete as it is a bug rather than enhancement/ feature request. Any bug related to EAP can be reported at eapmonitor@red-gate.com.
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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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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.
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SQL Monitor Development Team -
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provide a timeout setting on SQL Managed servers tab.
Hi there, We have a few sites that are offsite from our main building. The line speeds are not very good and therefore we get timeouts on our connections under managed servers. If you can maybe provide a setting to allow a bigger timout here this will help quite a lot.
1 voteGood news, this already exists. In the “edit credentials” dialogue, there is an “edit connection properties” link that gives you a host of options, including the time out (which is 15s by default)
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Allow users to specify the time period for the top 10 expensive queries
We are trying to use the top 10 expensive queries feature on the overview page to find out what is running at a certain time when we see CPU spikes.
This would be much easier if as well as a drop-down to select queries for the last x time units, a user could instead specify a date range of their own choosing
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Description of Full scans/sec
In Explanation it says
"a lot of index scans may indicate missing indexes"I guess it should be "full scans" ?
1 voteThanks for spotting this
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A version support page
Add a page on your site to list the current versions (liked to release notes) and all previous versions so we can easily see how many versions back we are or if we are at the latest one.
1 voteAs per Stephen’s comment: http://documentation.red-gate.com/display/SM4/Release+notes+and+other+versions
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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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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.
1 voteVersion 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
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SQL Monitor Development Team -
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)1 voteCompleted in v6.0.3
Thanks again for the suggestion, we appreciate your input.
SQL Monitor Development Team -
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 occurred1 voteClosing 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.
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