Suggestions
Welcome to the Redgate Monitor feature suggestions list. Tell us how we can improve Redgate Monitor by voting on these suggestions or by submitting your own ideas.
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Expiring Certificates
Would really helpful to have an alert for expiring certificates on a cert be it backup encryption ones or tde certs that are going to be expiring and we specifies how much notice we want given before the expiry
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Webhook Filter on Alert Severtiy
Situation: After setting up a webhook of SQL Monitor to Service Now we are getting tickets of all priorities
Background: We would only like tickets to be created that are actionable
Assessment: We can enable this on the javascript side of the service now webhook to remove low priority webhook calls however it would be prefered to do it in RedGate
Recommendation: Is it possible to have the same feature that email has "Call webhooks only if alert severity is High or Medium only"
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Customizing alerts without loosing inherited settings
Would be great to have the possibility to customize alerts on lower levels without loosing the inerited "customizations".
Otherwise there is the need to "copy" all the exclusions made on higher or highest level to the level that should be customized...
In example : i want to add a keyword for a specific query on Database Instance without loosing all the exceptions made for backup and so on.7 votes -
Additional parameters for filtering Long-running query alerts
Long-running query alerts
Example: Creation of ability for you to filter the queries it alerts on based on a regular expression
Source Ticket:
https://redgatesupport.zendesk.com/hc/requests/65981Possible closely related feature request:
https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11123559-triage-and-configure-repeating-alerts-more-efficie7 votes -
remember
Remember time period in overview of an instance or change the default from 24 hours. I tend to look at the overview of an instance using the last 6 hours however every time I click down in the overview I have to change from last 24 hours to last 6 hours, this is very frustrating. I would like to be able to remember my last setting or at least be able to change the default for me as a user.
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Show current data sizes on purging page
On the data purging page would it be possible to show for each of the data categories how much space each one is currently occupying.
Possibly even an 'oldest date' too? As this may be pertinent if the purge thresholds haven't yet been met.
On some environments I want to keep as much SQL Monitor data as possible and if it's a healthy server you may have very little alert data, and so want to keep more history than you do say, machine data.
It would also help in cases where the Repository database is growing, and you're not sure…
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create user permissions script
provide the sql to run for users to use during install to assign permissions to the back end database use and the monitored db use
obviously explain about the SysAdmin problem with your product
https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/80787/required-permissions-changed-after-upgrade
https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/80448/new-permissions-needed-for-monitoring
https://documentation.red-gate.com/display/SM7/Permissions7 votes -
Monitor for unavailable disks
I'd like to see SQL monitor check for disks that were previously available but are no longer. Example: I have a machine were a disk is online, something goes wrong and the disk goes offline. I would like SQL monitor to alert me to this. If the disk contains database files I would get a database unavailable alert, however if it is a drive that holds backups there would be no notification until the backups start failing.
This would have to be setup differently for clusters where a disk may exist on any node in the cluster due to failovers.
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save list of top 10 queries to excel
I would like to be able to save the list of top 10 queries to excel to deliver to developers in different sort orders
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Be able to customize sql agent job failure notifications turn on/off at the specific sql agent job level
Be able to customize sql agent job failure notifications turn on/off at the specific sql agent job level.
7 votes -
Remove a user/group from SQL Monitor
It would be desirable to be able to remove a user and/or group from SQL Monitor.
At present, there are no options to manage them, only add them.7 votes -
Set up multiple custom alerts for a single custom metric
For some custom metrics, the ideal number is not a fixed number. (E.g. ideal number of VLFs depends on log file size). In those cases I write a custom metric that returns a "percentage of ideal number". I like to be warned both when the actual number is too high and when it is too low so I would like to set up two custom alerts for this.
This is currently not possible without creating a copy of the custom metric, which of course wastes resources. Please consider adding the option to set up multiple custome alerts for a single…
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Clone custom metrics for copying
When I have a very simular custom metric, I want create. I have to copy and paste . Can we have a clone custom metric feature?
7 votes -
Baseline WaitStats
SQL Monitor contains an aggregated baseline of wait stats, however there is no way to tell if the current wait stats are "normal" for my environment. For example, we had a problem where LCKMX went through the roof, and as a consequence HADRSYNCCOMMIT plummeted because there was fewer insert/updates/deletes happening. The net difference suggested that there was no problem, but there was.
I'd like to see something that shows what's "normal" for each wait type, and what the recorded value is.
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Job Duration Unusual: Threshold higher than 100%
Currently when configuring different threshold in the "Job Duration Unusual" alert we are limited to a maximum of 100% of the baseline. So for example if I wanted an High alert when a job is 5 times the baseline it's not currently possible, I'm limited to 2x.
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"Index searches/sec"
Why in SQL Server metrics there is no “Index searches/sec”.
In your description for “Full scan/sec”, you mention “The ratio of Index searches/sec to Full scans/sec should generally be no more than 1000:1.”.
It would be very useful to have this counter without having to go through performance monitor under windows7 votes -
See the last X weeks of User transactions/SQl statments ran on the server
Have a view in SQlMonitor that can be used to do a quick search on what querys a user has run on SQL Server over the last X weeks.
For our user case we would just need the data for the last two weeks but sure if storage allows user's would like to hold the data for longer.
This is to enable some auditing functionalty to quickly find what a user has ran for reporting.
e.g.
What did user1 run yesterday,
What was run and by who over the last hourThis could also help with finding performance issues. For…
7 votes -
Prevent Active Directory lockout from a single failed attempt to log into the dashboard
If the user mistypes their password when trying to log into the SQL Monitor dashboard, their Windows account gets locked out in Active Directory. This happens on the first failed attempt, so presumably there's an automatic retry happening.
(This ticket is similar to https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/16845169-keep-from-locking-account-when-registering-server, but that one is for the server monitor login and this is for the dashboard user's personal login)
7 votesHi,
Thanks for flagging this. Can you please raise the issue with support so that we can investigate further? You can do so via by going to: https://productsupport.red-gate.com/hc/en-us
Thanks,
Neil Turner
Design lead – SQL Monitor -
Monitor SQL Server Analysis Services
It would be really nice if we could monitor SSAS Instances with the SQL Monitor.
7 votes -
Activate the alert suppression on a database level
In our production environments we'd like to be able to suppress all alerting on a database level.
For instance, if a database is to be retired, it will go into an automatic offline state for 2 weeks before it's actually deleted. During this period SQL Monitor keeps returning with a High Alert level warning that the database is not available.
Yes it's possible to manually disable this alert just for this database. However if we want automatic ticketing to kick in on this alert type we'd need to able to create a maintenance window before hand in order to prevent…7 votes
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