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Display maintenance windows on timeline
When looking at the timeline graph with the CPU/IO/Waits stats it would be very nice to see the maintenance windows, for example as a difference background color.
This would help immediately recognize why IO is spiking for example. I realize that can also be accomplished with the Baseline for regular maintenance but I don't see it as mutually exclusive since a maintenance window can be configured at any time.3 votes -
Control the delay before getting "Error on Base Monitor"
We have perhaps a unique use case where one of our Base Monitors is at a remote site with a very high latency (700+ ms). Monitoring works surprisingly well since one of the later updates but unfortunately we are getting regular “Error on Base Monitor” emails (10+ per day) even though the connection itself is stable (just very slow).
We would like to be able to control the delay before that error is raised, I’m guessing that slightly increasing this "timeout" would fix all our issues.3 votes -
In SQL Monitor, I want to use a variable description in a custom alert.
Some custom metrics could be about things like a specific disk, job or DB-object. At this moment it's not possible to specify those in a generic Alert.
If besides the metric value a descriptive value was allowed, it would be possible to parse the descriptive value into the Alert.3 votes -
Monitor SSRS
Monitor Reporting services
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Trigger a device check-in via powershell
We use powershell scripts to shut down and start SQL services before and after maintenance. The scripts create a suppression window before and after as well. However, if the suppression window is removed too soon after the services are up, alerts are still fired because SQL Monitor thinks the server is still down. We workaround this by adding a delay in the scripts, but it's annoying to sit and wait for it. I'd like to be able to force SQL Monitor to check in with the server before removing the alert suppression window.
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Add Active/Ended as SELECT drop-down options for Events
The current Alerts page Select drop-down has None/All/Read/Unread
For events, such as Disk Space, being able to Select "Ended" to get rid of the noise, helps focus on what needs to be addressed.
If the list doesn't have any Event-type row, don't offer this pair of options.
3 votesWe’ll look into this. In the meantime you can set-up a custom filter for Active or Ended events and use the ‘Select All’ to select these rows.
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select databases to monitor on Azure SQL Servers
I would like to have the option to pick which Azure SQL Databases to monitor on an Azure SQL Server.
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monitor dedicated sql pool databases.
SQL Monitor need support for Azure Dedicated SQL Pool databases (Synapse, Azure Parallell Data warehouse). Some basic metrics like available DWU's, running queries, top resource hogs etc.
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deadlock Detailed Report
Please create a detailed deadlock report.
In addition to the existing DeadLock summary report, can you please create a DeadLock Detailed report for all deadlocks for a given time range.
Looking for a DETAILED report of deadlocks (all deadlocks for the time range) that will include:
1. Date / Time of the event
2. Blocking SPID and full query text
3. Duration of the block
3. All Child or deadlock victim SPID and full query text of the victim
Similar to the summary report, will need to be able to select the SQL server instance and / or database to…3 votes -
custom RPO time
Custom RPO time. Have the ability to adjust the RPO to its values, for example 5 or 10 min. Not only 15minutes.
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See job history beyond one month
Currently the Estate Job page only offers a view of a day, week or month, but sometimes we need to see trends beyond one month.
Is it possible to add a variable window? Or a fixed one of a year?3 votes -
Increase SQL Monitor email Alerts to larger than 400 KB
We have some alerts for important servers that require you to login to SQL Monitor to see the full details because they exceed 400 KB. The alert currently reads:
"Details
Details omitted because they exceeded 400KB. Please log into SQL Monitor to view them.
View full alert details
Configure alert"Please increase this value so that we can see the full alert details within an email instead of having to login to SQL Monitor to see them.
Thank-you!
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Update the password of the account with powershell module
I do not want to use the base monitoring account, to monitor the different databases. So I need to use a separate account for that. In order to regularly be able to rotate the password of this account, I would need the PowerShell module be updated with a function to update the password.
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azure overview
Azure SQL databases display differently than SQL server databases on the overview page, which makes them difficult to see. And even with the Azure SQL databases, there are further differences if the databases are members of elastic pools or not.
Please change the Overview Page to either a) show them more consistently, since there's no other indication of what's different.
or b) rearchitect the way Azure SQL DBs are displayed on the overview page so it's clear they are Azure SQL and that would also give you the ability to show them whatever way makes the most sense for the…3 votes -
Add Query Impact metrics into analysis graphs
Add the ability to report on Query Impact metric in the analysis section to monitor trends.
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SQL Monitor to Authenticate Directly with Office 365, Exchange Online
Hello, it would be great if SQL Monitor could authenticate directly with Office 365 rather than having to use an on-premises SMTP server. Exchange Online is probably the most widely used email service for business and the application is unable to successfully authenticate with it. Thanks.
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Monitor Partitioned Tables in SQL Server
Be able to monitor and alert on sql paritioned tables. Such as if a retention of a table is 30 days and it retains data greater then 30 days, I should be able to get an alert. Be able to get alert on things like if older partitions are not merging or new partitions are not splitting or data being stuck in one partition...etc Able to see growth and changes in the partitions...
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Create smaller timeframes on the server overview page.
Currently if you dive into the overview page of a certain server the default timeframe is 24 hours, you can narrow this into 12,6,3 and 1 hour.
I would like to have the opportunity to narrow it down into minutes.like a custom time frame. This helps to do a more clean investigation.
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Superimpose the Disk I/O for VMWare Host on graph for Disk I/O
I'd like to get the Disk I/O for the VMWare Host superimposed on the graph just as I get CPU and Memory, it is very helpful to see the load on the host together with the load on the actual VM.
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Banner Messages for planned Downtimes
Hi!
We want to put Banners on Top Global Dashboard to inform Users, that we planning Downtimes on SQL Monitor.
SQL Monitor has build in banners for unlicensed Servers and stuff like that. Would it be possible to show User Messages that there will be a Downtime on SQL Monitor?3 votes
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