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  1. Show deadlock alerts using the deadlock graph

    Display deadlocks alerts in a more graphical and easier to understand way.

    35 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. Version 8.0.2 uses extended events to display graphs for the deadlocks.

    We will close this suggestion, but please do add another suggestion if there are further improvements you would like to see.

    Kind regards,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  2. Allow configuration -> monitored servers to have configurable retries and wait timeouts.

    We have a vpn between our sqlmonitor and several of our sql servers. I'm not sure how often sqlmonitor will retry or wait between retries when that vpn is unavailable due to any number of reasons. When the monitoring becomes unavailable, I would like to be able to allow sql monitor to retry every X seconds for up to X hours or X times as it attempts to reconnect.

    33 votes
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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    As of SQL Monitor 5.0, the retry logic is much more robust, and most users have reported no more issues with SQL Monitor reconnecting

  3. get a report on my server inventory

    For MSFT licensing purposes, I would like to have a report from SQL Monitor across all my registered servers that tells me enough information to work out my licensing requirements. For example, which version of SQL Server is installed, which edition, how many CPUs it is installed for, any information about the Windows licensing, whether it is on a virtual machine (and how many sockets, etc) ... you get the idea.

    Currently, the reports only allow for a very limited amount of information to be added, and they have to be in summary tiles or charts. Maybe this could be…

    33 votes
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    completed  ·  Neil Turner responded

    The SQL Server Licensing page within the ‘Estate’ section (see attached) shows licensing information for monitored servers.

  4. Make comments apply to alert types, rather than individual incidents

    CONTEXT: We use comments to document the root cause of alerts we encounter

    PROBLEM: When alerts repeat, recovering the comments is a pain - they only apply to individual occurences, so don't get surfaced when they issues re-occur.

    EXAMPLE SOLUIONS:
    - Show historical comments in alerts
    - When creating alerts, allow us to choose whether this applies to the whole alert type

    ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS:
    Comments should also show when configuring alerts

    32 votes
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    completed  ·  Carlos Eriksson responded

    As of v14.0.23 (September 4th)

    We have Redesigned of the 'Alert History' and 'Occurrences' tab in the alert details page. This combines them into one tab and allows for easier access to previous comments.

  5. be able to report on deadlocks

    Add the possibility to report on deadlocks. The information is stored in the database as an alert but it's currently not possible to report on alerts.

    I'd like to see the occurrence of deadlocks over time, per database,...

    32 votes
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    completed  ·  Neil Turner responded

    A tile showing the top 5 most commonly occurring types of deadlock grouped by the pattern of locking within the deadlock is now available within 'Reports'.

  6. Add option for more detailed email alert

    It would be good if there were more detail levels of mail alerts.
    Example: I would like to see not only block process, but also which database and object; In case of failover, I would like to see both nodes failed and active ....

    31 votes
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    completed  ·  Priya Sinha responded

    SQL Monitor V 3.3. has now released. This release contains improved subject lines and message bodies of alert emails to help you quickly understand problems before logging in to SQL Monitor.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  7. Create an Iphone app with a heatmap for the alerts. As well as an improved Analysis screen where you can select/combine/mix multiple metrics

    Create an Iphone/android app with a heatmap for the alerts. As well as an improved Analysis screen where you can select/combine/mix multiple metrics

    31 votes
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  8. Historical graph of how one query/Stored procedure is performing now compared to 2 months back

    Choose from top 50 of worst queries and check what is the difference now compared to the stats in the past in graphical view and create custom reports with graphical view

    30 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thank you for this suggestion. A graph showing a query’s history was added to the Server Overview Top Queries table in Version 7.1.11 in November 2017. This allows you to see a query’s performance over time, view its execution count, duration, reads, and writes, and the points in time a query’s plan changed.

    We will close this suggestion, but please do raise another suggestion if you have other specific improvements you’d like to see.

    Kind regards,
    Adam
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  9. Support for showing multiple metrics with the same units on Analysis Graph

    When showing more than one metric on a graph on the Analysis page, I fully understand that it is difficult to merge the units scales on the x axis. So what you get is each graph has it's 'own' x axis - and I get that - it makes sense when the units are incompatible (eg. percentage vs KB used vs batch/sec).

    But when all the metrics are measure in the same units, it can create a visually confusing graph.

    For example I'm looking at memory usage over time, so I've chosen Machine: memory used, SQL Server: total memory, SQL…

    29 votes
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  10. See on the overview page incase of a AlwaysOn or a windows cluster which node is the active\primary

    We have several windows clusters and AlwaysOn clusters. It would be very helpful to see on the overview page which node is active.

    It can be easily done by adding a color to the AG icon on the tile.

    I know that it can be seen on the cluster overview but I really think it belongs on the Overview page.

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  11. I would like to see a better dashboard view

    One where I can see a cumulative report of ALL of the instances being monitored with average totals for cpu/memory/disks utilization, across them all. Average success to failure ratios for Scheduled jobs (backups).

    27 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    We implemented a new global dashboard in the 5.2 release, which shows an overview of all instances on one screen.

  12. Check both full and differential backups for the overdue alert

    As it is, the backup overdue alert will not check if a differential backup has been run.

    Example: We have a database with simple recovery model that is set up to make a FULL backup every week, and a differential backup every day. If the alert level is set to "more than one day" then it will be triggered even though the diff backup has been run, indicating that it is not overdue.

    We could set (and do that) the alert level to check only for "more than 7 days", but then we will not be notified if a diff…

    26 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thank you for this suggestion, and apologies for not updating sooner.

    We believe this was solved when the Differential Backup Overdue alert was added in Version 8.0.7 (May 2018) . This alert is raised when entries for a differential or full backup in the [msdb].[dbo].[backupset] system table are older than the time you specify.

    We will mark this as completed but please do let us know if you have any further feedback.

    Thanks,
    The SQL Monitor Development Team

  13. Add Single Sign-On (SSO).

    We would love to have Single Sign-On added so we can use CAS for authentication. This feature would really help make things easier even more so then LDAP/NTLM even... I know I been on a support ticket for weeks to have a "work around" be the answer.

    26 votes
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    completed  ·  AdminAlex (Product Manager, Red Gate Software) responded

    Redgate Monitor supports Single Sign-On (SSO) via OpenID Connect (OIDC). This has been available from version 11.2.0.

    You can find the documentation on enabling it here: https://documentation.red-gate.com/monitor/authenticating-with-openid-connect-239667528.html

  14. PLEASE PUT BACK THE OPTION TO SELECT MULTIPLE ALERTS

    is anyone as frustrated as I am about the removal of selecting multiple alerts and adding a comment in one swoop?

    At least make it an admin option so that it can be turned on or off

    We are wasting so much time every day trying to clear alerts and it is unproductive

    26 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for letting us know this was important to your workflow.

    Version 8.0.23 has now been released and includes the return of the ability to add comments to multiple alerts.

    This was initially removed while developing the ability to group alerts, and it’s taken us longer than expected to reintroduce – apologies for the inconvenience this caused.

    We hope this solves this suggestion so will mark it as completed.

  15. SQL Monitor Audit Trail

    It would be nice to have an audit trail of changes in SQL Monitor. For example, if an alert is changed, a new instances is added/removed, or users are added or removed.

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    completed  ·  Liam Prescott responded

    Starting with version 14.0.57 (released on May 6, 2025), the Enterprise Edition of Redgate Monitor includes an audit log of user activity in Redgate Monitor, capturing sensitive changes such as modifications to alert settings. and the addition or removal of users and monitored instances

  16. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for login screen

    MFA is rapidly becoming a security standard. Redgate provides a map of the entire companies estate - which would be interesting to an attacker, it would be good if security could be tightened on that login process.

    23 votes
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  17. be able to choose the actions during maintenance window.

    During a monthly patch round along the servers, a restart or some downtime is mandatory. I want to be able to select the actions SQL Monitor will perform with the alerts triggered within that maintenance window. Most of the time I'm aware of the required Windows reboot, so I do not need an email telling me that the SQL Server was not reachable for a short period. So I would like to tell SQL Monitor not to trigger any alert during the maintenance window. (preferably a one-time maintenance window, see other suggestion)

    22 votes
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    completed  ·  Neil Turner responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. SQL Monitor 10 now allows teams to suppress alerts, or just their notifications, over certain periods using alert suppression windows. Please see What’s New in SQL Monitor 10 for more details (https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/sql-monitor/whats-new-in-sql-monitor-10).

    We hope this meets requirements and will mark it as completed. Please raise further suggestions for any improvements you would like to see.

    Thanks,

    SQL Monitor product team

  18. I want to be able to document in SQL Monitor why an alert is set a certain way.

    On the alert configuration screen for any alert, at any level I would like to see a comment type box where I can enter in the box the reason the alert is set as it is.

    For example if I have disabled the backup overdue alert for a particular database I would like to be able to save that reason in this comment box. Or if I have changed the disk space usage for a particular drive on a server different than the default I want to be able to document the reason why.

    I want to see this box…

    21 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thank you for this suggestion, it makes sense to want to record why certain configuration changes have been made.

    We released this enhancement in version 8.0.10 (in July this year – apologies for delay in updating this suggestion).

    I will mark this suggestion as Completed, but please do reply if you have any further feedback.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  19. export selected alerts

    it would be nice if we could export selected alerts (for instance full deadlocks related information) to forward to our "partner" so they can analyse the problem.

    21 votes
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  20. Webhook notifications need to be configurable at an alert level

    While Webhook notifications is a cute idea, it has no value to me if I can't customize what alerts get it. Please add a Webhooks column to the individual alert settings.

    20 votes
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    completed  ·  Neil Turner responded

    As of SQL Monitor 11.1.8 Webhook notifications can now be enabled and disabled for alert types.

    This can be done within the alert settings page for each alert type (see screenshot).

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