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Datawarehouse Database for older data
There should be an option to transfer older data to a datawarehouse database and still seamless be accessible from the Red Gate Monitor tool. This way the primary database can be small and quick in normal day to day use.
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Show "HostPID" on deadlocks
Add "Hostname" and "Hostpid" detail to blocking processes and long running queries in RedGate, this information is available deadlocks.
This would help us to identify the process causing the blocking to further investigate fixes vs trying to work out the process from the SQL code, which can often look similar to other queries.
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Add % CPU Usage column for the "User SQL processes (top 10 by CPU usage)" section.
On the Overview page for the SQL Server instance there is a section: User SQL processes (top 10 by CPU usage) that show current SPIDs that are utilizing CPU resources. This section should show the actual % of CPU usage for that SPID.
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Collect SQLServer:Memory Manager counters.
This would be especially useful for SQL 2012 where counters have been removed from the buffer manager exist in the memory manager counters. For SQL Server 2012, I have observed that there is a memory leak and this is revealed by observing the Memory Manager Optimizer Memory (KB) counter.
1 vote
Daniel Rothig
responded
Hi, we’re monitoring a few of those out of the box and the rest can be covered via the custom metrics feature – check out sys.dm_os_performance_counters
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UI global overiew - add tickerbox with unread alerts
To get a instant view of the unread alerts and their context/importance it might be a good idea to create a tickerbox at the leftmenu of the global overview page.
Currently to know what kind of alert has occured, I have to zoom in/navigate everytime to the alert page.
Layout example: Grouped by server, level, category, datetime
As addition it might be an option to create a tickerbox hide option .
1 voteDaniel Rothig
responded
(Gathering feedback)
Hi brendo, how would you expect the tickerbox to behave if there is a large volume of alerts incoming? Would you expect to always see the x most recent ones, or would you like to be sure that all alerts show up in this tickerbox over time?
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MS DTC down alert....
I would like to see an Alert if MS DTC (the DTC service) has stopped\failed or doesn't restart after a reboot.
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Add plus/minus tolernaces for unusual job durations
Allow different tolerances to the plus and minus percentages for the "Job Duration Unusual". In some circumstances (especially when there may be a lot of data coming in and the disks are extremely busy), I don't mind a deviation of a few hundred percent positive in the deviation. But a negative deviation of 90% would likely indicate some of the expected data was missing (thus a problem).
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Control Alerts Using Metadata
CONTEXT: We have a maintenance and backup solution which uses SQL Server as a backend to determine what databases to perform the tasks against, and at what time.
PROBLEM: Some databases do not have maintenance tasks running against them, but still have alerts which appear in SQL Monitor for them (e.g. Index Fragmentation). I don't want to manually exclude these from SQL Monitor, as the number of databases fluctuates, particularly on our testing and development environments.
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
- Provide a means of easily enabling/disabling/changing alerts dynamically using a stored procedure.1 voteDaniel Rothig
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For your usecase I recommend modifying the maintenance window metadata instead:
UPDATE s SET MW_IsEnabled = 1, —or 0 to enable alerts again MW_Start=0, —midnight MW_Duration=864000000000, —24 hours MW_Monday = 1, MW_Tuesday =1, MW_Wednesday=1, MW_Thursday=1, MW_Friday=1, MW_Saturday=1, MW_Sunday=1 FROM [settings].[SqlServers] s INNER JOIN [settings].[Clusters] c ON c.Id = s.ParentId WHERE c.Name = ‘hostname’ AND s.Name = ’’ —Set to SQL Server name or leave empty for unnamed instancesA restart of the base monitor service will be required after the change
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Click on CPU part of the server block on global dashboard (version 5.2) leads me to serveroverview instead of graph
I would suspect to go to the graph (analysis tab) after I click on the CPU part of a serverblock (in Global Dashboard), instead of the server overview
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add the table schema to alerts
On that alert (fragmented index), you see a table name. It would be helpful to see the schema to which that table belongs.
Medium Fragmented indexes
Raised on: XXXXXXXX > RedGateMonitor
Time raised: 26 Jun 2016 1:00 AM (UTC-04)
Details
Database name: RedGateMonitorTotal number of indexes: 332
Indexes above fragmentation threshold: 3Indexes last checked: 26 Jun 2016 1:00 AM
Fragmented indexes:
Index Table name Fragmentation(%) No. of pages
ClusterSqlServerServerWaitsUnstableSamplesIdCollectionDate ClusterSqlServerServerWaitsUnstableSamples 96 1175
ClusterSqlServerSqlProcessUnstableSamplesIdCollectionDate ClusterSqlServerSqlProcessUnstableSamples 96 3288
ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesUnstableSamplesIdCollectionDate ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesUnstableSamples 99 17581 vote -
auto refresh
I'd like the Analysis Graph to auto jump to present every 1 mintue
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Easily determine am/pm from the graphs.
Currently it isn't clear by looking at a graph if the times are AM or PM. It would be helpful if hovering included AM/PM as well as the left and rightmost times shown on the bottom of the graph. It is confusing and takes effort to determine if I"m looking at morning or night.
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we dont allow ping to cross vlans so i cannot add servers to monitor
we dont allow ping to cross vlans so i cannot add servers to monitor
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产品建议
1）Overview界面显示的服务器信息指标可以增加定制功能，可以让用户自己选择主面板上显示神秘关键性能指标
2）告警时的邮件发送增加不同的数据库可以发送给不同管理员邮箱。1 vote -
Execution Time on Alert Dashboard.
In Alert Dashboard, Execution time helps to analyze long running query in priority,so it would help if execution time is displayed on Alert dashboard.
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Track sql timeouts on execution
Track sql timeouts on execution from applications that close the connection before execution is completed
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Custom metrics to have their own individual data purging value
At the moment, we can only have a single value for data purging for all custom metrics.
I would like to be able to set a custom data purging interval for selected custom metrics as I'd like to track them over a longer period of time.
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Show sample aggregation values on Analysis graph
As you zoom out of a graph on the Analysis tab, the peaks and troughs become less obvious (I fully understand that and agree), but it would be beneficial to know roughly the level of detail at which the values have been calculated to show on the graph.
So for example at the most detailed level (say at Last 1hr) CPU usage is sampled every 15 seconds, zoom out to Last 6hr, and the points seem to be every 1 minute - so are 1 minute averages.If I come all the way out to a custom 60 day view,…
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Sharing links
link share.. . past 24 hours link, you send it, and people click on it, still shows past 24 hours, not the 24 hours from when you shared it
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enhance Title on Analysis Graph Page with "machine metrics"; "machine name"; (all)
Simply add to existing title with the selection of dropdown boxes as "machine metrics"; "machine name"; (all).
So we don't need to scroll down or include the bottom boxes to know which machine and options are being displayed...
1 vote
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