Suggestions
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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.
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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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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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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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Report Poller Error - turn off the PFUR
There is an administrative event error in windows event log occurring every minute or less. This error is unrelated to report poller and is product feature usage reporting (PFUR) unsuccessfully reporting back to redgate. I have been assured this message is harmless, but I think anything that is happening every minute on the server is bound to have some detrimental effect.
Please add a feature to turn off this usage reporting.
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ignore events triggered from SIEM vulnerability scanners..
when we run a vulnerability scan on our SQL servers we get a lot of redgate alerts, i know you can setup to ignore certain alerts and have a maintenance window but ignoring the alerts isn't an option (what if its actually a hack) and the maintenance window is dangerous for obvious reasons.
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Add free-format text when emailing an Alert
When I email a DEADLOCK to a team member familiar with, or responsible for, the functional area, for them to get a "blind" DEADLOCK email, bearing no introductory narrative, saying nothing about frequency, or suggesting that mitigation code be added where known to not be present, means I have to email to myself, compose the extras, and forward.
The ability to add a header-block to the email, with a polite sign-off, is more likely to engage, than for the recipient to have to start asking unnecessary questions.
3 votes -
full table scans
Highlight full table scans on big tables, so these can be investigated
It could be these tables have grown, so initially they were ok, but now they aren't
3 votes -
shortened neat sharing links for graphs etc
shortened neat sharing links for graphs
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Only Alert Database File Usage on one copy of a database in Availability Group
When monitoring all instances of an Availability Group, the Database File Usage alerts on every instance. This just adds extra noise. It would be great if instead of alerting on each copy it just alerted once on the availability group somehow.
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compare different times in analysis graph
We have upgraded SQL and changed servers for one system It would have been nice to compare in the same graph different timeslots and different machines
3 votes -
be able to move database to another server
Sometimes I need move database to another server. I did it last time and I lost access to historical data. Moving databases is very common practice.
I think it is a big disadvantage.3 votes -
Exclude a database, instance or the entire alert based on an actual alert
It would be a nice feature to be able to click on an alert and get the option to exclude future alerts:
1 - for this specific database
2 - for this specific instance
3 - for this specific alert3 votes -
Maintain Base Monitor Service Account between upgrades
Everytime you upgrade the base monitor (every 2 weeks), the service account that is configured to run the service gets reset to "Local System".
We have setup our system to run as a domain user to changing this everytime is painful.
The installer should respect the current user when upgrading.
3 votes -
Indicator that an active backup is ongoing on card
Have some kind of indicator an active backup/restore header is ongoing, card or icon pulsating, shaded etc. This is handy to see at a glance if too many backups are going at once.
3 votes -
Report showing least or busiest server.
I would like a report that uses the historical data collected by SQL Monitor that would show the least busy or busiest servers so that I will be able to plan where to put additional workload, or re-distribute work load.
3 votes -
Remove node from sql monitor for sql clusters
If i have a SQL cluster that has a non SQL witness I would like to just remove it so it does not get pulled into the warning system or the dashboard.. i in my case am using a NAS machine as a witness to the cluster.
3 votes -
Frequency of the customer metric
It would be useful if we can specify frequency less than 1 minute in the custom metric. Because sometime we need to check any metrics more than once a minute.
3 votes -
Understanding what caused the Diskspace alert
When viewing a disk space alert, it would be very useful to view the disk space usage for the drive the alert is raised for?
Ideally I'd like to to be able to get to the page: the Estate | Disk usage | [and filtered for the Specific Server: Drive:]
I understand that on the detail page of the server, you can see the growth of the databases for the selected time period, but its not always db files that cause the alerts.
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Connect to Azure database via express route
Currently I'm only able to connect to Azure SQL Server (PaaS) via internet and URL servername.database.windows.net.
We have a direct connection to our Azure environment via Express Route. Therefore I want to use this also for the monitoring, but per default SQL Monitor uses external URL.
3 votes
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