Suggestions
Welcome to the Redgate SQL Monitor feature suggestions list. Tell us how we can improve SQL Monitor by voting on these suggestions or by submitting your own ideas.
This is the easiest way to make an impact on SQL Monitor’s roadmap. Check out the completed suggestions to see how your ideas have influenced us in the past. Please note that this list is one of multiple sources that drive our development, meaning that we will not always implement the highest-ranking suggestions.
To give your idea the greatest possible impact, please follow these guidelines:
- Describe the goal you’re trying to accomplish, rather than a specific solution to get there
- If you have a favoured solution, add it as a comment to your suggestion
- Give us as much context as possible
- Only make one suggestion per post. If you have multiple ideas, submit them in separate posts
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Add a "Check for updates" link in the About section
Alternative for when you've clicked away the "new version available" notification
3 votesHi,
We have now added check for updates to the About section in version 7.1.16.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll mark this as completed now, but do let us know if you feel it should be reopened.
Thanks
Adam
SQL Monitor Development Team -
Database File Usage Alert - Autogrowth
Database File Usage Alert : Please consider autogrowth! So far, this alert is of no help.
3 votesSQL Monitor v7.1.18 added an option to disable database file usage alerts when autogrowth is enabled. The setting can be found on the configuration screen for the database file usage alert.
Thanks for helping us improve this feature with your suggestion.
SQL Monitor Development Team
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Alerting on Autogrowth Events
Alerting on Autogrowth Events, some environments set the file size of their databases and would like to be alerted if autogrowth occurs since that indicates abnormal behavior
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reports timespan options
Please add 14days as the timespan in the dropdown for the reports
3 votesShipping 8.0.16.
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Have the ability to pin the left sidebar in the overview screen
It'd be great if we could pin the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen on the overview section when looking at a particular server. As I'm looking over metrics I oven find myself hovering over that section then waiting for it to expand and collapse again. An example concept implementation that I think would work well is similar to how Microsoft implements basically that same functionality in their office suite (in particular off hand outlook is a great example). Really just being able to pin it in place I think would satisfy the entire issue for me as…
3 votesThe sidebar is now either open or closed (it will no longer open on mouseover).
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Comment multiple alerts at once
I would like the ability to add the same comment to all of my selected alerts before clearing them in the Alert Inbox.
3 votesHi,
Thanks for this suggestion.
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. We’ll mark it as completed, but please do reply if you have any further feedback.
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Don't check Agent status for Express Edition
Whenever I add a server to the monitoring that is Express Edition, I get alerted that the SQL Agent service is not running.
Well d'uh. It's Express Edition. The Agent service cannot run on it.Instead of always giving me this alert and then having me go in and disable it for yet another server, why not change the logic to not raise this alert at all when the edition is detected as Express?
3 votesThis was fixed in version 9.0.10 released on May 1st https://documentation.red-gate.com/sm9/release-notes-and-other-versions/sql-monitor-9-0-release-notes
Please update to the latest version and let us know if that does not solve the issue for you.
Thanks
SQL Monitor Team -
Allow custom scopes in OpenID Connect authorization request
Currently SQL Monitor only sends the scopes "openid profile".
In my usage the "groups" scope is needed as well.Make this parameter configurable to support any number of custom scopes.
3 votesYou can configure OpenID Connect scopes by running a script on your SQL Monitor repository. See Authenticating with OpenID Connect documentation (https://documentation.red-gate.com/sm11/adding-sql-monitor-users/authenticating-with-openid-connect) for more details.
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Geeting listener name in AG info
Would it be possible to get the SQL Server AlwaysOn AG listener name in the SQL Monitor dashboard?
3 votesThis is available from version 12.1.16.
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Improve the resolution of the analysis graphs
The analysis graphs don't plot enough points to be able to clearly pick out peaks and troughs in the data -- it all gets averaged out.
2 votesAbsolutely. We’ve upped the resolution from 50 data points to 500 or so.
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Ability set working hour for analysis graph
ability set working to compare last x day for only working hour
2 votesYou can already do that – just specify what your working hours are in the time selector boxes
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Have ability to sort list of machines on the Analysis page and anywhere databases/machines are listed on SQL Instance overview
Have ability to sort list of machines on the Analysis page and anywhere databases/machines are listed
2 votesObject lists are now consistently sorted alphabetically
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2 votes
Hi Ben,
Thanks for letting us know about this bug in our validation logic. It will be fixed in the upcoming version of SQL Monitor
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2 votes
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 -
Summary alert page ordered by active alert type with drill down to detail
In the previous red gate alert program it had a summary by each alert giving a quantity for the selected monitor period and one could then drill down to the detail for that specific alert in chronological order starting with the most recent - found this most useful - also gave a simple measure of occurrences over time which one could use to track the effectiveness of efficiency projects
2 votesThanks for the suggestion – we believe this has been addressed with the Grouped Alerts released in Version 7.1.18.
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 -
A report on the front page (Overviews) of the Sql service status
A report on the front page (Overviews) of the Sql service status (Datbase Engine,Agnet,Reporting Service And etc )
Using DMV "SYS.DMSERVERSERVICES"
This Report includes Columns For Example : ServiceName,Startup-Type ,Status-Desc And Last Startup Time
Tnx From Redgate Company Team
2 votesUnhealthy service statuses raise alerts in SQL Monitor, which will be surfaced on the front page (future work on the front page will make this more parseable in SQL Monitor 5.2)
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2 votes
Hi, thanks for this suggestion.
We have added a button to the query plan that allows the full in-truncated text to be copied to clipboard.
We hope this improvement solves the suggestion so will mark it as completed. Please do let us know if you have any further feedback.
Thanks,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
suppress emails during maintenance window
Allow the ability to suppress all alert emails during a maintenance window. Right now we have ~65 SQL servers and during windows when the OS team is patching and rebooting the servers we can receive 100's of emails as the servers go up and down. It would be great if we could set a schedule or at the very least a single use window when emails don't get sent.
2 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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Show job name not job ID value for job related alerts
When viewing SQL Agent job related alerts the identifier is the Id value stored in SQL Server, it would be more useful if this displayed the actual job name.
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