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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Show Schema Name For Each DB on Top Procedures Grid
On the Top Procedures grid, within the row data - showing the schema name within the database if it exits.
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Tags in "About" section are viewable, but not selectable or copyable
The tags in the about section in a monitored Server are viewable, but not copyable.
We use tags for the category or a contact person or person of charge or additional information hints.This information as tags are a easy appoachable and fast way to see those information from a sql server.
But there is no easy way to copy the content of a tag. You can easily drop a tag or create a new tag, but is impossible to select/copy (somehow select + right click + copy or select + ctrl c) the content of a tag.
At the…
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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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Improvements to Alert Notifications when you have multiple alert thresholds
You can configure alerts in Regdate Monitor to have different thresholds (low, medium, high). The problem is that all notifications have to go to the same email address(es).
We'd suggest an improvement to allow diffent notification methods for each level. For examples, send low alerts go to one email address and medium/high go to a different email address.
This would allow us to send the more critical alerts via OpsGenie/Jira.
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Allow the reports to use all the data my retention policy allows.
Generating reports seems to limit it to 30 days of data. For trending we would like to use all the data our retention policy allows. Not sure why there is a limit.
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Preserve license after the upgrade
During an in-place upgrade of Redgate Monitor, the license is lost. This poses a significant challenge for offline environments where internet access is restricted. As a result, Redgate Monitor ceases monitoring after the upgrade until a new permit file is generated and uploaded, leading to gaps in monitoring history.
This issue could be mitigated if Redgate allowed a short grace period of trial or honored the previous license during the transition.6 votes -
Monitor MySQL Database Instance on Windows Server hosts
https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions?query=Monitor%20MySQL%20Databases%20on%20Windows%20Server%20hostsCouldn't see it anywhere but Monitoring MySQL\MariaDB Database on a Windows Server Host is something is in development or on your roadmap?
I work in the Social Housing sector (Not for Profit) and just about every other housing association we collaborate with use applications running off a MySQL back end - hosted on a windows server.
These database back ends (along with the application) are primarily supported by ISV vendor - but they actively encourage us to monitor the database. We already have already invested in Redgate monitor for our our On Prem SQL server hosts and it would be…
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Display running SQL text instead of full batch
Hi Team,
Currently, Active Sessions displays the full batch text instead of the exact running SQL statement. It would be significantly more valuable to show the specific executing query text.
Having immediate visibility into the exact query would allow us to quickly identify blocking, long-running, or resource-intensive statements without relying on additional tools or manual investigation. This would reduce troubleshooting time, speed up incident response, and improve overall performance monitoring efficiency.
I believe this enhancement would provide clear operational benefits for teams managing busy production environments. Thank you for considering it.
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MCP server
add support for MCP server. I would be nice to ask AI question
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Monitor sessions and stats on an Oracle Active Data Guard (open read only)
Currently, if you set up an Oracle Active Data Guard database in Red Gate, it detects that it is a standby database and doesn't gather any usage, session, activity, or other data from it. However since the database is open for read, there is session data, performance data, and other metrics created that are unique to this database. Basically, the request is to monitor an Active Data Guard database as a standalone database (with the caveat that it is read only).
If Red Gate could gather those stats without requiring sysdba privileges or connection to the primary that would be…
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option to Enable AI on selected SQL instances and Logging AI activity
it would be very useful to control which SQL instances have AI enabled. Perhaps an opt out or opt in under Monitored Servers
Even if data is said not to be sent from prem to LLM, enabling logging of the AI traffic per SQL instance, would go a long way ifor management buy in
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custom group order
I'd like to be able to pick an order of my groups... dev, prod, staging in alpha I'd prefer to see prod, staging, dev.
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Allow configuration of Fragmentation Alerts down to Table for EXCLUSIONS
The Fragmentation Alert for a database only permits on/off and low/medium/high with page count configurations.
This is far, far too high a level to be useful.
The Alert needs, at the very least, INCLUSION and EXCLUSION capabilities by table within database. An overall fragmentation low/medium/high and pages would be OK to START WITH, but It would be great to be able to go to each index and state the fragmentation limits and even whether to monitor it.
In my case, I use Idera's excellent Defrag Manager, so when I see this alert, I check that Defrag Manager is doing its…
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Make software FIPS 140-2 compliant
Currently SQL Monitor is not FIPS 140-2 compliant
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Ability to change the width of list of metrics at analysis page
The small width of list of metrics makes difficult to read list of metric if it has metrics with names over 20 chars. See attached screenshot.
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Group / Sort custom metrics
We have a lot of custom metrics and the current interface is not robust, being able to group / sort metrics in folders or in a tree would be very useful. Also the selection box in the analysis tab is not large enough to navigate a useful number of custom metrics
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I only have one SQL Server, take me to the instance Overview instead of global dashboard
I only have one SQL Server instance, instead of seeing one small bit of info and having to click that in the new global dashboard, take me directly into the instance so I can get relevant info on first login/site visit. Think about your design when we just have one server.
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Keep from Locking Account When Registering Server with wrong password
The process of registering a server should try only once with a credential failure, looks like it keeps on trying and if you have typed in a wrong AD password it will lock your account.
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Apply filters to more SQL Server alerts
In configuring Long Running Query, I'm able to specify a filter on the process name (e.g. wanted to exclude my "Barracuda" backup processes - and did so successfully). I'd like to do the same for other Alerts such as Deadlocks and Blocking Processes.
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Restrict the read only role to only the "Overview" page.
I've explored using Read Only views for SQL Monitor and they work great, while really parring down the amount of information that the user can see. However, is there are way to lock it down even further so that they can only see the homescreen with the colored status on the specified SQL Instances? Essentially only allowing them to see status without drilling down into the instance itself and viewing waits, disk, CPU etc.
This could be used by management, etc.
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