Suggestions
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bring Failed SQL Agent Jobs to the front
Show Failed SQL Agent Jobs at the first. Currently its behind (graphic)
For us its important to see the Failed Jobs.
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slack
Auto resolve slack after alert status is ended or cleared
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Raise an Event Alert when a database is dropped
There is currently no alert when a database is dropped or detached from a server. SQL Monitor should create an Event alert to record when the drop happened. Obviously this might be intentional (e.g. the alert you have now that records a database is offline), but it might be accidental or unknown to the DB team (E.g. a vendor drops their database).
Because it will (hopefully) be an intentional action, and quite probably no plan to ever re-attach the database, the alert should be an event alert rather than a normal alert (the normal alert would never end)
A similar…
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Query Plan Regression
Ability to track queries and alert when query plan regresses or duration increased beyond a given threshold.
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Monitor SQL Server running on AHV hosts
Whilst you have added the ability to monitor vmware hosts, I would like to be able to monitor other virtualization technologies. E.g. AHV (Nutanix)
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Show Compressed Backup size on Estate > Backups Screen
Currently the backup size displayed on the Estate > Backup screen is the uncompressed backup size which is useful but it would also be useful to include the compressed backup size because that's going to be the raw file size on disk when backup compression is enabled.
Knowing the compressed backup size is pretty useful when trying to assess how big a backup will be on disk.
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Enter and assign purchased SQL licenses to VM hosts, VM or server
The new SQL licensing tab would even make it possible to detect unlicensed instances depending on listed availability or improper VM host movement rules.
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Monitor individual CPU cores and not just avg CPU as a whole
AVG CPU is not enough of an indication of how things are going - There could be an entire numa node maxed at 100% while other nodes are almost idle and it will drag the avg down.
As per here: https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/162141#Comment_162141
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Ignore failing jobs using regex
the config for JOB DURATION UNUSUAL alerts allows the use of regex to filter the jobs to ignore.
this functionality would be very useful for FAILING JOBS alerts
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Alert for full filegroup
if a database is a fixed size (max size set), or if the db is initially set to be the full size of a disk, there is no alert to let us know that the database is full.
for instance - if T: drive contains tempdb (and only tempdb) and we've sized it to take the whole drive. we've done funky sizing and growth settings so we can get an alert when the db grows, but once its grown and the temp objects are cleared, we're unlikely to get another disk warning, because the DB will already be taking 100%…
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Trace schedule
Could the new "Trace" feature have a schedule as well as an on/off? If not this then how about a third option "Trace until date/time"?
Thanks
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Shorten the focus window from 15mins to 1min
I want to be able to apply a shorter timescale to the focus window, 15mins is far too long on a very busy system.
I would like to be able to put a start / end date/time instead of selecting a time and then x hours before that
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Customize alerts at the host level in a windows cluster
Currently you cant customize host level alerts at the host level only at the windows cluster level.
A few scenarios where this is needed :-
Always-on cluster where one node is for the application and you have a read-only secondary for reporting. I need to be alerted for the application node for high CPU, but the report server is usually often hits 100% CPU during business hours.
Multi node regular failover cluster with different application owners. 3 nodes, app1 lives on node1, app2 lives on node2, node 3 is a passive node for both. Alerts for app1 need to go…
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Have a custom message added to alerts
When an alert is emailed, I want to place an action (possibly including an html link) as a comment on the alert.
This would allow the recipient of the alert to solve the issue directly.
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Long-running query Alert - time based parameters
I need to disable monitoring long running queries at night.
My proposal is that you could add new parameter to alerts
Time from - Time to which will exclude monitoring during this time.That will help to exclude ETL - ssis, and other long rununig queries which we set up at night.
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Suspend Monitoring of Individual Cluster Nodes
Alert suppression windows can be applied to groups, clusters, instances, and machines - including individual cluster nodes. Howerer it seems it is only possible to suspend monitoring for instnaces or clusters not individual nodes,
We recently had a hardware fault and it would have been helpful to suspned monitoring of a specific node whislt the engineer resolved the fault.
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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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Attach Custom Documentation To Alerts
I'd like to be able to customize things like an alert that job X has failed with a link to our own documentation on how to troubleshoot that job. It would be even better if these links could carry forwards into the slack notifications but even just having them on the alert page in SQL monitor for that particular alert would be immensely useful.
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Add a process that automatically checks to see if a stand-alone SQL Instance has become an Always-On Availability Group
There is a stand-alone SQL Instance that is being successfully monitored by SQL Monitor.
The SQL Instance importance has increased and the SQL Instance becomes an Always-On Availability Group. This change is not detected by SQL Monitor.
The work around is to remove the SQL Instance from being monitored and re-add, the SQL Instance for monitoring so that the change is detected.
Add a process that automatically checks to see if a stand-alone SQL Instance has become an Always-On Availability Group or has been removed from a Availability group to become a stand-alone instance once again.
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Dashboard view for multi-instance environment
We have multi-instance SQL Server on one VM.
Today on dashboard we have waits for instance, and we need processor usage for instance also.We would prefer to have on tile:
1. Waits for instance
2. Procesor for instance
3. Disk i/o for instanceWe should have also tile which grup all instances into machine. On machine tile we shoul have the same information as for instance but measuers would count machine indicators.
There would be also great if You would add new dashboard view for multi instance environment.
My proposal for view in atachment (I am not a professional…
6 votes
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