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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.

This is the easiest way to make an impact on Redgate Monitor’s roadmap. Check out the completed suggestions to see how your ideas have influenced us in the past. Please note that this list is one of multiple sources that drive our development, meaning that we will not always implement the highest-ranking suggestions.

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  1. Group alerts into a hierarchy

    I want to be able to group alerts into a hierarchy so that for instance when a server goes offline, all of the other alerts generated such as instance unavailable are not generated.

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  2. on the overview, monitored instances be able to choose which groups to show

    It is possible to choose one or all groups on the monitored instances overview. I would like to be able to select more than one group to show or deselect some groups that I do not want to see.

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  3. Change unable to connect error messages to include DNS issues

    Added a server via IP address as it's in a remote DC, test ran fine. After clicking Add to monitor the server, SQL Monitor resolved the IP to the cluster name, and attempted to add the 2 cluster servers via name (which is great, much easier to recognise servers via name than remember the IP), however SQL Monitor failed to connect, with WMI errors, RPC Server unavailable etc.
    These errors were misleading, as the real reason it wouldn't connect is that the server couldn't resolve the DNS names. Adding them to Hosts file sorted it straight away.
    Connecting should attempt…

    3 votes
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  4. Add a summary tile for deployments to a database

    I'd like to see a summary tile for deployments to a database by SQL Compare and SQL Change Automation.
    Also it would be good if alerts can be created for these events.

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  5. Customize Email Alert Subject Line

    Subject lines can be used to route alerts effectively - allow customization of variables in subject

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  6. see if a query plan is taken from a plan guide

    When displaying the query plan through the "View query plan" button under query details it would be great to have an indication if this query plan was a result of a plan guide.

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  7. see my sizing per server (in Estate)

    I would really like to have an extra column in Estate showing how much RAM and CPU are configured. Especially CPU information is important, because this determines how much licenses I need to maintain my Estate.

    The extra column could be added between Versions and Status.

    3 votes
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  8. I would like to view Top 10 processes by Memory used

    I would like to view Top 10 processes by Memory used

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  9. Include Drive Name on disk related graphs

    A while back per "Disk Names in Overviews and Analysis" the disk/drive names were included some areas but it would be helpful to be consistent and have them included in all disk/drive related graphs.

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  10. Allow custom DML script deployments to show on SQL Monitor (like SQL Compare)

    Write now, when you deploy with SQL Compare it puts this wonderful little tick mark in SQL Monitor to show the deployment location and time. We would like the ability to do this with SQL Multi Script or even manually via manual deployments.

    3 votes
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  11. Define limit of the specific job alert.

    problem : a job is running in every 2 mins and failed due to any reason .it will fire multiple alert ,I would like to restrict the limit of the specific failure

    solution :as we work in the shifts , I want it should not come more then 3 time which is in 8-9 hours duration .when I am setting the limit then it will impact to all server not the specific one . whereas I would like to check this monitor based on the time and then fire the alert

    3 votes
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  12. Customize Alerts on the Overviews Page

    Allow for the customization of the Alerts in the Alerts section on the Overviews Page.
    These customized alerts would be independent of the settings for the Alerts tab. That way Alerts would just be customized for the Overviews Page.

    3 votes
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  13. Add "When File Grew" Drilldown to the new Estate page, Disk Usage

    The new Estate page is already proving useful, but today not as much as it could be...

    tempdb LOG suddenly grew to twice its normal size, and we have yet to trace why. It may have gone unnoticed but for SQM issuing a LOW DISK SPACE Alert!

    Please add a drilldown for DB files that show the times, and quantities, for growth. A sparkline chart would help, too, as a visual cue. for the last 30-days, perhaps.

    Thanks for continuously making SQM more useful.

    3 votes
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  14. Baseline data within report graphs

    It would be useful if I can include baseline data (as in Analysis section) within reports and their graphs.

    3 votes
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  15. Log Alert Action Activity

    Please store activity such as who clears alerts and when for the alert details.

    Also, it'd be nice to have an overall auditing of who changed what when on various other parts of the website.

    3 votes
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  16. know who ran SQL Compare and what changed

    within SQL Monitor when it flags that SQL Compare ran, it would be good to be able to see who ran the job and what was changed. Currently the job is flagged in SQL Monitor but there seems to be no further details other than what database it ran on.

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  17. Be able to customize alerts by job

    I would like to be able to customize alerts by job. For instance, I have many jobs that run multiple times per hour. If it fails once or twice, I don't want to be alerted about it. However, if it fails 3+ times in a row, I want to be alerted.

    3 votes
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  18. Monitor Backups LSNs in Always On Availability Groups

    With Always on Availability Groups, Error is... Log backup for database "XXX" on a secondary replica failed because the last backup LSN from the primary database is greater than the current local redo LSN. And SQL Monitor cannot check for this. I would like to see if SQL monitor can catch it before the Azure Backup Vault fails to backup every 15 minutes.

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  19. Alert for Available Space on Backup Disk

    There is a configurable alert for when disk space assigned to a logical disk reaches a threshold but not an alert for backup disk assigned to a disk other than the logical disk.

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  20. Support 3rd party HA tools such as DxEnterprise

    3rd party HA tools such as DxEnterprise allow for failover of a virtual host (VHOST) from one Server (virtual or physical) to another in the event something happens to the VHOST. In the failover process, it will pull all of the associated disks along with the VHOST to the new machine it is going to be hosted on. If RedGate SQL Monitor is configured to monitor the physical server, things work well until you need to fail over. Then you get alerts of disk changing from 20% free to 0 bytes free and the failed-over SQL instance(s) are no longer…

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