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Make configuring alerts easier
Currently we have several instances grouped into three top-level groups and then several subgroups underneath. This structure allows us to set alerts at the group level and then drop instances in and out of that defined set.
If we select a group and configure an alert setting, when the page refreshes it does not return back to that same sub-group, instead opting to go back to the very top 'All Servers' level which if not spotted can mean you then select the next alert to configure and inadvertently change the setting for all servers.
This seems like basic functionality but…
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Pie chart in SQL versions estate page to have CU patch status rather than SQL server version
Pie chart in SQL versions estate page to have CU patch status rather than SQL server version
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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.4 votes -
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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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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Allow Fractional Alert Thresholds.
When you use the "Calculated rate of change" functionality on a custom metric, the results come back in fractional values and you should be able to alert on these values. In my case, I want to monitor number of orders for the last 10 minutes. There are always relatively few orders at night and many during the day, but if order flow drops off drastically in a short period of time, I want to know about it.
Unfortunately, I can't just alert when the rate of change drops by 25% (-.25) because alerts can only happen on integer values. 100%…
4 votes
Daniel Rothig
responded
A current workaround is to multiply the result by a factor, eg. 100 to make the result a percentage.
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comment markdown
CONTEXT: I use comments on alerts raised by SQL Monitor to document root cause of the triggered condition and resolution action.
PROBLEM: Comments only support plain-text. When creating/reviewing comments, it's often useful to add links for more detailed descriptions of the cause of the alerts, and links to ticketing systems for resolution steps. Simplified bulleting/numbering and bold/italicized text would also be helpful for breaking up monotonous text.
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS: Add Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) support to addition/review of comments. A couple implementations for examples of usage:
- StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help)
- GitHub (https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/)
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Overview screen show as a list
Show the overview screen as a list of servers. If you have a large number of servers to be monitored, there is no way to see all of them at once (other than zooming out of the screen). It defeats the purpose of monitoring if you can't see everything.
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Sorting for columns in Host Machine Metrics
The OverViews page provide lots of useful information about our SQL servers including being able to see all of the disks on the host machines. However the order of the disk names seems random. Can we have sorting enabled in this section so we can sort by space used or Disk
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Don't bloat plan cache No. 2
I have ~15k variations of this query in my plan cache, each with varying handles and a varying number of INSERTs.
DECLARE @plans TABLE (planhandle varbinary(64) NOT NULL)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b008697d33ae0e92c011c00000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b000ddbda05a03c83f01d00000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b00263e3902f0b1112b1900000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x05000b009ee99729a0b9945b1600000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b0059af9b291063a6951900000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x06000b0094ca3316501fee2c1600000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
INSERT INTO @plans VALUES(0x05000b0065c5a32880b2945b1600000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
SELECT planhandle ,
queryplaninfo.queryplan
FROM @plans
OUTER APPLY sys.dmexecqueryplan(planhandle) AS queryplan_info4 votes -
Resize the columns
Be able to dynamically resize, refit columns so details could be seen.
4 votes -
Have all cookies from the application marked as secure and HttpOnly
In a internal review of web-applications our riscmanament suggests that all webapplications cookies must be marked being secure and HttpOnly.
Could that be possible?
4 votes -
add "Red-Gate SQL Monitor" to the start of all titles
If I have a lot of tabs open, the title of the page gets shortened. So, hypothetically, I have enough tabs open that only 4 letters show on the redgate SQL Monitor for the page title. Boss comes into my cubicle to talk to me about something, glances at my screen and sees I have a tab called "Anal..." open when it is really "Analysis", and some red flags will go off in his mind even though I'm doing nothing wrong. If it started out with "Red-Gate - Analysis" or "SQL Monitor - Analysis", even if that got shortened to…
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Poll the SQL Monitor Targets on Demand.
When we make a configuration change to address an Alert. By polling the TARGET on demand after making change, we want to make sure that the alert is addressed.
4 votes -
Delay "Performance Data" Load for MOST Alerts
For at least 99% of Alerts of Interest over the last 6 YEARS of using SQL Monitor, the lower pane's "Performance Data" is of nigh on zero use.
IF it might be of use, give us a "Load..." button next to that heading, and load it on demand.
When I'm ploughing through a hundred or so predominantly Blocking Process and Deadlock alerts, the most important information is in the Details and Processes tabs.
Page loading delays will decrease because you won't have to pull eye-candy charts that aren't read for the bulk of the time.
The "Delay..." option, for me,…
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SQL USER PROCESSES (TOP 10 BY CPU) - drill down
Server hosts/matrix
Drill down
Some select's come up in mine, but I'm not able to drill down to find more details like the SQL itself4 votes -
Manually rerun a metric
When an alert pops up, after I fix the problem, I want to refresh the metric to ensure that it was fixed. There's no way to tell how often the data is refreshed.
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In reports display results of a query from our own data (multiple columns)
We have a table in our administration database that contains usefull information for our management. This consists of multiple columns. It would be very helpfull to run a query in a tile in a report where the results of that query can be displayed. A bit like the long running query results in the reports but then with our own data from the administration database.
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Create Duplicate of Default Alerts
Hi, it would be great to create 2 Default alerts with deffernt setting for differnt servers
and to seperate AO Group when creating Alerts
so that a Backup Replica wont go into some alerts that serve the production Servers4 votes -
Showing Unlicensed and will not allow you to stop monitoring
I added a server that I needed to monitor for a couple hours. When I was done, I swapped out the license and attempted to pause the monitoring to remove the blue banner at the top:
You have unlicensed servers. Unlicensed servers will not be monitored and will not raise alerts.
However, I was unable to pause the monitoring as it just refreshed the page, with the blue bar at the top, and the "pause monitoring" button still enabled and "resume monitoring" button still disabled. Ideally, there would be a way to say I don't want to monitor this server…
4 votes
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