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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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  1. Filter disk space alerts for Quourum disks

    Add a new criteria to the Disk monitoring, that allows me NOT to monitor disks that have less than X GB/MB of Total disk space.

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  2. Desktop notifications

    Desktop notifications would have (at least) 2 advantages:

    1) It would give much quicker access to the critical alert information than a regular alert email, since you could layout/format the notification with perfect flexibility (as opposed to default email client notifications which devote most of the real estate to the "from" address, and subject and body in plain text)

    2) With a couple buttons, the notification could give immediate access to actions such as "clear" or "mark as read"

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  3. Monitor Azure SQL DWH

    It'd be great to be able to monitor performance of queries on Azure SQL DWH, as there are a number of DMV's available to track usage. Also, the ability to see on the Dashboard what DWU level the Azure DWH instance is running on would raise value and awareness of the cost of it, at that point.

    13 votes
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  4. Improved view of User Sessions

    Visibility into user sessions could be improved. The current list on the instance overview, "SQL User Processes (Top 10)", is a start but needs the following to make it useful:

    1) Don't limit the number of sessions shown; rather add paging controls like on the error log view, so that it would be possible to see any session for any selected time period
    2) Add a columns for:
    - Login (i.e. login name)
    - Blocked by session Id (maybe even an icon if a session is blocking/blocked?)
    3) Make it possible to sort by any column
    4) Add ability to…

    13 votes
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  5. Allow nested groups on the Overview screen

    I have a structure of groups where the first level is environment (Production, Test, Development, etc) but then I have component as a second level (ETL, Application, Data QA, Sandbox). On the Overview screen, only the first level of the grouping is used, and therefore I have servers under 'Production' all bundled together and ordered by name across all the secondary groups. Would be good if the overview screen could show multiple groups somehow ... I understand there might be servers under the first level and the second level, and it might be weird for some customers ... but for…

    13 votes
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  6. Looking at the information recorded for top 10 queries I cant see a recorded date as to when query ran. Is it recoded somewhere if so how ca

    Looking at the information recorded for top 10 queries I cant see a recorded date as to when query ran. Is it recoded somewhere if so how can i see it . If it is not why not. trying to track down who ran a query is very hard without a timestamp or username as to who ran it
    http://127.0.0.1:8080/overviews/cluster/wdcwdbp692/sql/sqlwprd1#?Zoom=1498683547086,1498690747086&MaxTime=1498690747086&Present=true&Range=

    13 votes
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  7. I would like to see PROCESSES TOP 10 BY Memory.

    I would like to see PROCESSES TOP 10 BY Memory.

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  8. A column with end of extended support in Estate

    In addition to the column with end of mainstream support it would be nice to have a column with end of extended support in the Estate tab

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  9. Force re-check of index fragmentation alert

    The index fragmentation alert is checked only once per week, because of the load is causes on the system. I am fine with that.
    However, I would like to have the option to force an immediate re-check for a specific database - for instance by adding a "re-check" button to the alert window.

    SCENARIO: The index fragmentation check runs on Saturday and triggers an alert on one database. On Monday I check the alert but I know that the weekly index defragmentation job runs on Sunday, so it is likely that the problem is already fixed. But I like to…

    13 votes
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  10. SQL Agents Job Display Time Windows that Jobs are executing

    The SQL Agent Jobs screen is a great way to track all jobs across all monitored servers. I think it would be helpful to see the gaps of time that no job is running to help determine maintenance windows and also make sure that the jobs are properly spaced out.

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  11. I use SQL Monitor every day and use the failure reports for SQL Agent jobs, it is most useful. However, when there is an issue with an SSIS

    I use SQL Monitor every day and use the failure reports for SQL Agent jobs, it is most useful. However, when there is an issue with an SSIS package that is automated via SQL Agent I have to leave SQL Monitor and go to SSMS. It would be really handy if SQL Monitor could read the SSIS errors. Is this something that is in the road map or could be put in please? Thanks.

    13 votes
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  12. Show/Hide metrics on Analysis page

    Please add an option to show/hide selected metrics on the Analysis page. Something similar to the Reports graph would do.

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  13. Collecting custom metrics for multiple databases at the same time

    ATM, a custom metric can return one value, but sometimes collecting the metric for one database takes the same amount of time as collecting it for all of the databases.

    Having a multi-database metric (maybe something that returns a database id -> value map (as a two col table)) would be especially useful if it takes a long time to collect the metric (in my case it takes nearly 30 secs to collect it).

    12 votes
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  14. Develop SQL Server Agent Job Status Alert

    Add a new SQL Server Agent alert to monitor the status of a job. The ability to alert when a job is running longer than a specified time or has not run within a specified time. The current alert will only notify you after the job has stopped. This does not help when a job is hung.

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  15. Raise Free Space alerts on disks that are mounted, rather than simply drive letters/volumes

    In our clustered environments, instances are given a small drive for mounting the larger data/log/etc volumes within them.
    Whilst we always get a "disk full" warning on the mountpoint drives (subsequently disabled), there appears to be no ability to monitor the volumes that are mounted within, where we do care about free space.
    I do see that metrics for IO, latency etc are done on a per volume (not drive letter) basis, so would be great if we could have consistency.

    12 votes
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  16. Alerts to be automatically marked as cleared after 'X' days

    Have an option so alerts can be automatically marked as cleared after a variable amount of days.
    This would prevent us from manually clearing them down.

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  17. Identify which Virtual Host a server is on

    In our environment we have a number of different virtual hosts and clusters on which our servers are hosted. It would be quite useful if the SQL server summary information showed the name of the host and cluster on which it is being hosted. As well if host and cluster name could be displayed somehow on the analysis graphs that would be great.

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  18. Filter for VMWare virtual machine list under Manage VMWare hosts

    Add a filter in the vmware host to list only monitored servers. On and off checkbox would be enough.

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  19. Limited Estate functionality for unlicensed server

    I would like to have very very basic estate functionality for servers without a Monitor license (I'm thinking Express instances on developer's station, sandbox instance without any real databases, etc.).

    It would only be to keep visibility on them, so that we don't need to keep an inventory in a separate source. If the edition and version could be included that would be even better but of course nothing about disk usage / backups / jobs, etc.

    I realize that this is essentially asking for something for free but I would venture that keeping visibility on all instances might lead…

    12 votes
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  20. Backup overdue alert - RegEx filter

    I have many non-production databases on production SQL Instance, that make no sense to backup. I know I can turn this alert off one by one on each database. RegEx filter by database name would be help.

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