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  1. using standard user rights one should be able to create an alert suppression and only remove one if that one was made by the same user

    DEVOPs team know when they have planned changes and in that case it would be good that they can create alert suppression and after the change removing that without we need to grant them admin rights

    4 votes
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  2. View top queries, stored procs, top waits, index usage at estate level on Azure SQL

    You can currently only view the top stats at DB level for Azure SQL. We run a multi-tenanted SaaS application where all DB's are identical across the estate, so to be able to compare offending stored procs, indexes etc. across the board would be incredibly helpful.

    4 votes
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  3. Monitor an Azure SQL Database geo-replicated secondary database

    We have geo-replication set up for many of our production databases, and we have some processes and users that use that for executing read-only queries. We have alerts set up in Azure Monitor for simple things like when CPU % exceeds 95% for more than 2 minutes. We would like to use Redgate Monitor to identify the workload that is causing that (Top SQL). However, when we try to add the secondary server, Redgate Monitor cannot find any databases in it.

    4 votes
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  4. flexible disk configuration

    Currently the configuration for disk space monitoring in “RedGate Monitor” only gives the option to check on the number of bytes that is still free on the disk (in GB or MB).

    Ideally one should check on the number of bytes in combination with the % free space.
    The reason for this is that percentage hugely differs depending on the total size of the disk. On a small disk one would like to extend the disk when it is 80% FULL, where as on a much bigger disk, 20% space might still be many GB’s and to early to extend…

    4 votes
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  5. Add additional metrics for Latency, Failover, queries categories for MongoDB

    • Replicaset metrics around latency and failovers…etc. Like SQL Server.

    • Something to track queries performing large scans vs seeks.

    • Would be nice if the alerts (even if duplicated were broken out by platform. They are shown by SQL which I get is your primary offering, but just saying also postgressql vs seeing its PostgressSQL on Linux or MongoDB on Linux and change the alert offering to reflect those in a separate grouping like SQL.

    4 votes
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  6. Custom Queries in Reports or Provide Queries to make own Reports

    I'd like to be able to either paste in my own queries to build a report from (a la PowerBI) or, better yet, be able to access some of the code for your existing queries so I can make custom reports in PowerBI. (For instance, the Longest Running Queries summary tile is extremely limited at the moment, if I had the code I could quickly make it in PowerBI and make it do what I wanted.
    I understand its Red-Gate code and therefore you'd want to keep it to yourselves, but it would deeply expand the reporting features and make…

    4 votes
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  7. 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.

    4 votes
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  8. Add ability to monitor MongoDB instances on atlas

    Though Atlas does supply its own monitoring tool - having the ability to have a single pane of glass for all services by having the ability to monitor MongoDB which are hosted on atlas within redgate would be beneficial

    4 votes
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  9. Add number of alerts to browser tab

    I always have SQL Monitor open as one of the tabs on my browser (Chrome). What might be useful is to change the text of the tab (only when it is set to Global Overview) to include the number of alerts (unread or uncleared I'm not sure.....) - much like if you have Gmail inbox open, then any unread items make the tab text "Gmail - inbox (1)'

    3 votes
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  10. Monitor an application server

    You can already monitor a 'host' machine which does not host any SQL Server instances, but it would be nice if we could also monitor application log locations, services etc.

    Maybe Custom Metrics which can use something other than t-sql?

    3 votes
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  11. Allow email configuration at the time you configure a new alert.

    Once you configure an alert, it automatically defaults to notify the default recipient. However, if I want another user to receive these emails, I have to configure this through Alert Settings. I'd like the ability to set up the email address in Custom Metrics setting, so that everything is done in one integrated place.

    3 votes
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  12. Analysis parsing of dates and multiple baselines using a text input search

    Allow the analysis and other date filters to provide the option to paste and try parsing the date based on matching common patterns (maybe even allowing user to define options in config file).

    For example, the standard SQL datetime2(0) of yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss pasted would convert to the date it parses.

    Maybe even consider taking a page from the freaking great design Simple Bank has started applying which is a text based filter applying friendly syntax. I have found this incredibly useful.

    They let you type in the search filter

    "last 3 months"
    "last week"
    "date:1/1/2015-1/15/2015"
    "date:1/1/15-1/15/15"

    and it immediate updates…

    3 votes
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  13. Alert based upon trend data

    We want to be able to alert when a value changes dramatically over a period of time. so if a system returns 110,105,112,40,38,52

    to eye ball that on a graph I can see there is a problem, however that may be at the peak time of the day and 38 might be a reasonable value for in the middle of the night, so having a threshold of a low value is not appropriate, the comparison mode of query for this situation would report a change of
    -5,+7,-72,-2,+14

    in here there is one large drop but then it is running stable,…

    3 votes
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  14. Quick view of whether Agent is up on all monitored servers

    If I go to the Configuration > Monitored servers tab, I can quickly see if all SQL Servers are up and running. It would be nice to also be able to quickly see if all SQL Server Agent services are up and running.

    3 votes
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  15. Alert Stats on the new Cards

    Those new cards look very nice, BUT, they do not show anything about the alerts raised on the instance!

    That's a shocking omission, IMO.

    Please add something that shows the alerts, like the old Overview page did, like counts by severity, with colors!

    3 votes
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  16. The "Output" area for Deadlock events should be resizable

    When viewing a Deadlock event, you can go to the "Output" tab to get details on what T-SQL was running when the deadlock occured. However, that window is quite small, and is not resizable.

    3 votes
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  17. Replace SERVER identifier with a hosts file friendly name

    As the ALIAS feature isn't working consistently across all pages and, in particular, email alerts, the means to replace the name of a monitored server is needed.

    E.g., if someone, not a DBA or person familiar with SQL Monitor, set up each server as an I.P. address, or an equally meaningless Rackspace device ID, it is unreasonable to assume that I.P. or RS device translation to named server, which in our case is a customer name+nature combo, is held in every recipient's brain, or that we should carry around a pocket-sized hosts file printout...

    If a simple operation such as…

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  18. Apply regex rules to existing alerts

    Filtering alerts with regex is great for new alerts but it would be better if we could confirm our new command work by running them on existing alerts. Either testing or just been able to the filter the events using custom regex expressions.

    3 votes
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  19. Feasibility of selecting databases across the sql instances to create custom metrics

    Imagine we are planning to create a new custom metric which we wish to use across several instances but one specific set of databases. its currently impossible and will be one to have.

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