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Report to identify alert overrides
We are using the alert categories "Host machine alerts", "Instance Alerts", "SQL Server alerts", and "Availability Group alerts" for our SQL Server environment. We have defined general thresholds for the alerts w/in each category. We then have situations where we override the alerts for a monitored object in an alert subgroup or the monitored object itself because the general alert threshold(s) don't make sense for the sub group or the object. It would be very useful to have a report which shows where we have performed these alert overrides. A report showing where an alert is overriden or a report…
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Alert "regarding "instance alerts" - Cluster failover - for Postgres"
for Alert "regarding "instance alerts" - Cluster failover - for Postgres", would like to have it available on the individual server level and not just the monitoring group. That way we can customize our notification accordingly.
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Set default Redgate Monitor time zone
My Redgate Monitor server is on a server with the time zone set to UTC. When I open a Redgate Monitor on that server I get all the times in UTC, which is great.
When I open a Redgate Monitor on my local computer, the GUI shows the times adjusted for my timezone.
Since my team is monitoring from different locations in different time zones, we get different times depending on the timezone.
I would like an option in Redgate Monitor configuration to easily set a default time zone so all the users can see the same time zone.
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Alerts should configurable to repeat until an issue is resolved
We'd like the option for alerts to repeat until an issue is resolved. For instance, we may have a custom alert to tell us when a DBCC CheckDB hasn't been performed in >24hrs. For that we'd perform the check once per day and expect to get an alert every day that the problem continues. Without the alert recurring it's very easy for it to slip through the cracks and get missed.
Another example is blocking. We have some databases where we monitor blocking via SQL Agent and when a block occurrs for 1m or more, we send emails every 30s…
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Have a standard metric for Data space used
There is currently an out of the box metric or Log Space Used, but there isn't an equivalent Data Space Used.
I get that it's a bit trickier if you have multiple data files, (even just adding them up as one metric). We have databases that we want to pro-actively allocate space for but it's hard to do without a metric to tell us when it's getting full.
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Configurable Thresholds Based on Time
The alerts would be more useful if we could apply maintenance or quiet periods to them.
I understand we have the maintenance window and that is perfect for things like planned downtime, index maintenance etc.
Regards,
CliveHowever, the issue I currently face is that I suppress the processor under utilised message. Like a prolonged spike in CPU activity, a massive drop off could be a concern too. However, I have a current mean of 18.6% on one example server. I can set a threshold of 15% as an example, but this would trigger alerts through the night when typically…
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Include Custom SQL Code in alerts
When creating custom alerts, I would like to be able to include information that can be retrieved by running a SQL query.
One example is using the pre-built Failed SQL login custom alert that is available to setup. The alert notifies when this event occurs, but it fails to include information like which login failed, etc.
It would be nice to be able to build part of the e-mail body in the alert to include some critical data that can be queries using T-SQL.
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Select what alerts i want to receive by Slack, the same way it happens by Email
Slack messages are a little annoying when all the alerts are sent by them.
I would like to configure the alerts i want to receive on slack. Today this is possible to configure in the e-mail option.8 votes -
Improve alert troubleshooting by showing sql server error log
When viewing an alert it may be helpful to see the error log for the server for the surrounding time. RAISERROR can log to the error log, so this info could be useful to see.
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Job execution in overview graphs
It would be nice if you in the Overview graphs could see SQL Agent Jobs, just like long running queries, deadlocks etc.
It could be good for troubleshooting high disk IO, CPU etc, if you could see that a job has started running at a point.I've tried to illustrate my idea in the attached file.
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be able to show basic SSIS monitoring graphs/sparklines on the overview page (Buffers spooled, Buffers in memory, rows read,...).
There is currently no SSIS monitoring in SQL Monitor. You can add custom metrics for performance counters available through SSISDB but these can only be seen on the Analysis page and only after you have selected all of them.
It would be nice to be able to select SSIS as an option for a server and then see these counters as graphs/sparklines on the overview page.
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Comments in alerts list
Show the comments or at least the first 50 symbols of a comments in the Alerts list.
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Add ability to search Server Log
I would like the ability to search the error log or at least filter out some alerts. For example, we get about 45 "Log has been backed up" log entries every 15 minutes. It's very hard to actually find things on redgate without having to login to the SQL server and filter there.
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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?
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export the overview page
The reporting is very limited and provides less detail that the overview and estate pages. We need to be able to export the overview and estate pages easily. Also need to be able to report on the Top queries and top waits.
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Slack notification in more detailed
Slack notifies the alert, would be great to view complete details in slack specific to notified. This helps giving access to development for a slack channel to look into Long Running Query corresponding to database. without giving full access
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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 windows8 votes -
Detailed Memory usage breakdown
I would like to see a breakdown of memory usage. For example, how much memory is used by the plan cache, how much for the buffer pool, etc.
Also, a breakdown of memory usage per database.8 votes -
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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Have more retention periods for the data retention settings.
Right now on the data retention settings screen, there is only a drop down with a static list of ranges to keep data. It would be useful if these could be more granular, like being able to set both the number and interval (month,day,year). At a minimum, it would be nice if there were options between 1 year and indefinitely.
8 votes
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