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  1. Remove single AG replica

    Currently when adding an Availability Group it automatically discover and add all replicas which is great.

    However sometime we might not want all replicas to be monitored, in our case it's because of limited bandwidth on a certain asynchronous node. While it is indeed possible to "Pause Monitoring" on that node, it would be nice to be able to delete it completely (using some kind of exception list so it's not re-added automatically).

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  2. Suppress Free Space monitor (Azure Hyperscale DB)

    When using Azure Hyperscale DB - the DB auto grows - therefore the Free Space monitor needs to be silenced/ignored forever (except if you about to hit the max of 100TB!)

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  3. Easily identify which base monitor is hosting a monitored SQL Server host

    In a multi-base monitor configuration it is a bit cumbersome to identify which base monitor is hosting a given entry on the overview page. Yes, one can search all the SQL Server host machines on each base host, but that takes time. It would be better to have an entry in overviews that identifies where it is hosted.

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  4. Add Database Filtered in Top 10 Queries\Wait Section

    Can you Add Database Filtered in Top 10 Queries\ Wait Section.
    We have more than 500 databases in instance . If you add Databases filtered than we will very helpful.

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  5. Integrate query store with monitor to find regressed queries

    Query store already tracks regressed queries. Integrating this into the monitor and having the ability to alert on this would be extremely useful in having early notifications on when a query goes bad before application or system issues come up

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  6. Be able to schedule a maintenance window with the possibility to use an offset.

    Be able to schedule a maintenance window with the possibility to use an offset. Say every 3rd tuesday of the month + 12 days.

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  7. A way to showcase all SQL Statements running for a specific time frame

    A way to showcase all SQL Statements running for a specific time frame. This is will be helpful to investigate any issue that occurred in the past.

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  8. be able to switch support for cloud-features and off based on company needs

    Some companies still operate on-premises only, others operate only for Amazon RDS xor Azure. Having all these cloud-database features enabled clutters the user interface and I'd rather like to enable/disable such support through configuration options like
    [ ] enable Amazon RDS
    [ ] enable Azure SQL
    [ ] enable Azure Instance
    ...
    [ ] enable Oracle/xxx/yyy features

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  9. 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.

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  10. Monitor repliction

    Monitor replication (same as replication monitor)

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  11. 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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  12. alert when database was created / dropped

    It would be nice to have a build in alert when someone (e.g. a vendor) created or dropped a database.

    Reasons:
    - you may want to delete old backup files (if dropped) or have to modify / delete some maintenances
    - you'll make a manual full backup of the new DB so that log-backups could be taken by your backup solution
    - maybe you have to add the new DB to monitoring (as DLM Dashboard), backups (and have to consinder its the disk space at the backup drive) or an Excel-Sheet with a list of your databases :-)

    Real-Live-Example:
    I…

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  13. Exclude serverless databases from monitoring

    Need the ability to exclude serverless databases from scanning. The purpose of using serverless is to suspend when not in use, drastically reducing costs. Currently these databases are "kept awake" by SQL Monitor and never go to sleep. This is a deal-breaker for use on some of our servers...

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  14. TempDB Percentage Free Space Monitor/Alert

    Common practice is to put TEMPDB files on a dedicated disk and size TEMPDB to fill the entire disk.

    When TEMPDB grows unexpectedly it can quickly use all the space on the disk and is a common cause of SQL Server issues.

    We have great observability about TEMPDB issues in SQL Monitor now but no default alerts.

    We have some metrics we can alert on such as TEMPDB Free Bytes, but a literal value is not much use in a mixed environment where some servers have 1TB+ TempDB databases and some have only 30GB.

    We collect a custom percentage free…

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  15. Schedule hourly reports to email out and base on groups

    I would like to be able to send hourly email report for example Failed sql agent jobs base on a group not just one server, covering certain period of time like 9-5 each day of the week Monday- Friday.

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  16. Show query history for custom date range in "Top Queries" view

    In the top queries window, the history can only be searched via three date ranges:

    Zoom Range,
    Window Range,
    All history

    It would be good to be able to search a custom date range to make the graph easier to see for a time period of interest. Window range is only three days max and all time can be too broad.

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  17. compare query metrics across instances

    I would like to be able to compare query metrics across SQL Server server instances.

    We have a number of environments - Dev / QA / UAT / Production

    the data generally increases in volume and gets more "real" the further up the chain we go which can mean something that performs well against the "small data" on the dev server can become an issue when it hits UAT which has real volumes of data

    It would be useful to be able to compare a query across instances so if we release a feature which comprises of a number of…

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  18. Option to exclude custom metric from Analysis Graph page

    When setting up a custom metric, have the ability to exclude it from the Analysis Graph page. E.g. I set up a metric that checks the AutoUpdateStatistics setting for each database and then creates an alert if a database is set to OFF for this setting.
    It is however not needed in the Analysis Graph page as it is purely an alert.

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  19. How about a custom metric or alert to return data in character value as opposed to just numeric scalar or NULL

    I want to have a function much like profiler to collect login data, who logged on & be able to filter on the data collection, for instance, if I only want to see when domain\me connects to the sql server, I would like to track that information. I am aware this can be done with profiler, but I would really like to have the ability to use one tool.

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  20. Alerts with and/or (boolean) logic

    To determine performance problem b it is needed to monitor several counter values at once. For example when counter x and counter y and counter z are all below 10 then you have a memory problem. I would be nice to contruct that kind of logic to get true performance alerts.

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