Suggestions
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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.
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Tracked queries only available to admins
Tracked queries are only available for Administrators. Would it be possible to adjust the permission for Standard users to allow for this feature? At the moment we are forced to assign admin roles more broadly than we’d like because of insufficient granularity of permissions.
And this feature (especially if combined with some metadata as highlighted in https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/46675642-ability-to-add-notes-to-tracked-queries ) is a shame to not allow standard users to utilize.4 votes -
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 -
Re-Check an alert
It would be helpful to have a "ReCheck Monitor" button for all of our alerts in Monitor. We have some checks that are only performed once per day. When those checks create alerts, we make quick work of resolution, but the alert doesn't clear for a long time (next day). It would be very helpful to have a button to force an immediate re-check. This would validate the fix and get us back to an all-green status quickly.
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Ability to test notification scripts
The ability to add scripts into notifications has a lot of utility, but due to the built in parameters it is difficult to test the script without triggering the particular scenarios involved - so an ability to test the script with inputted values to the parameters such as AlertName would be beneficial
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Configurable Alert Thresholds for notification alerts
I would like to suggest a new alerting feature for Redgate Monitor: the ability to configure notification thresholds based on the number of consecutive occurrences of an event.
For example, for SQL Server Agent Job failures, it would be useful to define a threshold so that an alert is triggered only after a job has failed a specified number of consecutive times (e.g., 3 or 5 failures), rather than generating a notification for every individual failure.
This enhancement could help reduce alert fatigue and notification noise, especially in environments where occasional transient failures may occur and do not require immediate…
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Security team needs a report how SQL instance compliance has been met
In the Security -> Server Compliance:
Need the capacity to email or subscribe the "SQL Server Compliance Report (csv) which displays drilldown the SQL Server Compliance values of the Server property in the selected Server Compliance template for each instance (tabs).There is export button, but it doesn't have the option to drill down the status for each instance. Also, it is not subscribable.
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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)'
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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?
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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.
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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…
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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,+14in here there is one large drop but then it is running stable,…
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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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.
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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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monitor microsoft dynamics nav related stuff
connected users
etc3 votes -
basic microsoft active directory/exchange monitoring
since i have 2 unused licenses it would be very nice if could could monitor my exchange server and also my active directory domain server.
for instances how many mails are being send and received or are in the queue
was any user account locked? etc3 votes
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