Suggestions
Welcome to the Redgate Monitor feature suggestions list. Tell us how we can improve Redgate Monitor by voting on these suggestions or by submitting your own ideas.
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Alert History on new Overview - Don't show Cleared Alerts
The slide-out Alert pane is useful on the Overview IF, and ONLY IF, under normal circumstances we want to see NON-cleared Alerts, like the default filter on the Alerts page itself.
Please make this pane behave like the Alert page's filter, and allow us to re-filter, to include cleared if we want to. But at the very least allow us to set a default filter (in my case NON-cleared).
Thanks.
7 votesHi, thanks for the suggestion. The version 6.0.10 release added the ability to show/hide cleared and ended alerts from the timeline and alert sidebar on server overviews. We intend to add this to the global dashboard soon. Hopefully this solves the issue.
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Setting Maintenance Window via API service
That would be very nice if there as an API service which we would use to set maintenance window for a given sql host or a group of hosts.
7 votesThanks for this suggestion. SQL Monitor 10 now allows teams to suppress alerts, or just their notifications, over certain periods using alert suppression windows. Windows can be set-up using SQL Monitor, or via the API. Please see the example Scripts within Configuration for more details.
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
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Notifications to Slack Only
Would be nice to have the option to send some alerts to slack only, at the moment the only option is to send to slack and email, or don't send to either.
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Be able to customize sql agent job failure notifications turn on/off at the specific sql agent job level
Be able to customize sql agent job failure notifications turn on/off at the specific sql agent job level.
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see the dates in UK format in the Estate - Installed Versions tab
the release date and end of mainstream support date are both shown in USA format i.e. mm/dd/yyyy
7 votesDates are now shown as dd mon year e.g. 28 Sep 2022.
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Have more flexibility in Maintenance Window Schedules
We do OS and SQL Server patching one Sunday a month for dev and QA and the following Sunday for production. I think if maintenance windows scheduler looked more like setting a schedule in an agent job it would be perfect for setting these kinds of maintenance windows. And if we could drive setting / modifying maintenance windows via T-SQL that would be even better.
7 votesThanks 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
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Job Duration Unusual: Threshold higher than 100%
Currently when configuring different threshold in the "Job Duration Unusual" alert we are limited to a maximum of 100% of the baseline. So for example if I wanted an High alert when a job is 5 times the baseline it's not currently possible, I'm limited to 2x.
7 votesAs of version 10.0.9, it is possible to enter thresholds over 100% for the job duration unusual alert.
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Email Alerts subject info
Change the subject to the email alert, remove the SQL monitor ID number as taking up space without adding value, making it more difficult to gather the neccesary info from the subject line for job failure etc when viewing email through a portable device iPhone etc.
6 votesSQL 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 -
occurrences
Please retain a "tombstone" that can be referenced to present a history of "Occurrences" for HIGH Alerts. Allow us an additional retention period so these don't hang around forever - but please don't limit the number of days, just a smallint would be good.
When Monitoring Fails and is cleared, the Occurrence disappears when DB maint nukes "old cleared Alerts". If the retention period is short, say 14 days, the history of occurrences is soon lost.
A "tombstone" would at least keep the occurrences for trending.
6 votesJust keep the alert data in the Purge settings indefinitely – it’s only the metadata of the alerts, none of the performance data, so are “tombstones” as you described
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Alert Details - Performance Data - Top 10 expensive queries - Bug
The "Top 10 expensive queries" tab under the "Performance Data" section of the "Alert Details" view shows "Totals" data by default even though the "Avg. per execution" radio option is selected by default.
This can be confirmed by changing the selection to totals and then back to average.
Observed in Web Version 3.2.1.231
6 votesHi, thanks for pointing this out to us. It has been fixed in version 3.3
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Analysis | Allow for custom versus comparisons
It would be useful to compare a custom time range between different days such as 08:00 - 10:00 for this Monday and the Monday before.
6 votesThis has now been implemented in v3.4.
Thanks
SQL Monitor Development Team -
Globally enable/disable monitoring
We would like the ability to quickly turn off and on all monitoring and alerting globally. This would be usefull when we have major outage that we become aware of and start to work on, however alerts get generated very quickly and can overwhelm the email system or support phone. It would be great if we could continue to collect performance metrics but stop all alerts until the problem is resolved.
6 votesGo to Manage Monitored Servers, Select All, Suspend.
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Add Disk Used Percentage to the Analysis screen.
The Disk Used metric on the Analysis screen is great for tracking how much disk space is being used but it would be more useful if this figure was a percentage so you could tell how close to capacity the disk is.
6 votesThank you for this suggestion. Disk Used % was subsequently added to the Analysis page.
Additionally we have now added a new Estate tab which includes an overview of the disk space used across the estate with a projection of how it will grow in the coming year. You can try this out by updating to the latest version 8.0.13 (it was released in version 8.0.10), or by viewing the online demo at https://monitor.red-gate.com/Estate/Disks
We will now close this suggestion but please do raise another suggestion or contact us if you feel further improvements would be particularly helpful to you.
Kind regards,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
Disable Chat functionality
It would be nice to have an Option to disable the built in chat functionality. I understand this is a quick easy method for obtaining feedback from the user community. The issue I have is that this is not an "Approved Chat Client" according to my info sec unit.
Having the ability to turn it off allows me to satisfy their requirements while still allowing this to be enabled for other users to quickly interact and provide feedback to RedGate.
6 votesAfter upgrading to SQL Monitor 6.0.8 or later you can now disable the intercom chat feature.
After upgrading navigate to the following file C:\Program Files\Red Gate\SQL Monitor\Web\Website\web.config
and amend the line
intercom enabled=“true”
to be false, then restart the website.
Further details can be found here:
https://forums.red-gate.com/viewtopic.php?f=205&t=80218&sid=76afdd87b11da381fcb31901d658270a#p143776Thanks for your patience with this issue,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
to see 24-hour clock affecting times on graphs
I see the setting and it is set and in most places it is used but not in the time axis on graphs in analysis.
6 votesWe have just released version 7.1.3, available from Check for Updates, which fixes this issue.
Thanks for the suggestion, and for your patience,
Adam
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display unlicensed servers in different color
We started with RedGate Monitoring and added all our SQL Servers. As a result we consumed too much licenses. Although there's a warning on the top of the screen for this, the unlicensed servers are reporting 'healthy' which is a little tricky (especially for non-dba it'ers) because you don't know the state.
I like to see the unlicensed servers in a different color ( for example gray) to see a better reliable overview
6 votesUnlicensed servers are now shown as grey on the global dashboard.
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Allow the pinning of availability groups to the Global Dashboard
I'd like to see the status of my AGs on the Global Dashboard without having to find them inside the server. Would also nice to see stats on latency on this widget.
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Exclude databases with state = 1 (RESTORING) in page verification alert
During a restore the page verification alert gets triggered, even when the database has CHECKSUM page verification. Please exclude database with state = 1 (RESTORING) in this alert! Thanks!
6 votesThanks for this suggestion.
Version 9.0.4 has now been released and the Page Verification Alert will no longer alert when a database is being restored.
We hope this works as you expected and will mark this as complete, but please do let us know if you have any further comments.
Kind regards,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
Dynamic Report names
It should be possible to have dynamic fields in the report name similar to the way Backup Pro implements backup names. So when the report is emailed the attachment could be easily saved without having to rename it.
For example "MyReportsBaseName<YYYYMMDD><HH:MM>"6 votesReleased in SQL Monitor v13.0.5.
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See last backup of each type in Overview page
Currently the backup section in a database on the overview page shows the backups that happened in the selected range, and it only shows the last backup of each type that happens. We have a database that does full backups once a week and then differentials.
It would be helpful at a glance to see the status of the last backup of each type regardless of if it happened in the time window or not. Maybe hide the last differential if it happened before the last full.
6 votesWe have redesigned the Backups information to more clearly show the selected range it refers to, and also show when the last backups occurred prior to that. This can be seen in the latest version (8.0.25)
We hope this improvement completes the suggestion and will mark it as completed. Do let us know if you have any further feedback
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