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  1. 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 votes
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  2. Geeting listener name in AG info

    Would it be possible to get the SQL Server AlwaysOn AG listener name in the SQL Monitor dashboard?

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  3. 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.

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    completed  ·  David Bick responded

    Absolutely. We’ve upped the resolution from 50 data points to 500 or so.

  4. Ability set working hour for analysis graph

    ability set working to compare last x day for only working hour

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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    You can already do that – just specify what your working hours are in the time selector boxes

  5. 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

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  6. Don't validate email address when sending is disabled. (Email Settings)

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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    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

  7. Ability to send the SQL fragment that caused an alert in the e-mail alert. Would be very helpful when reading alerts on a mobile.

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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

  8. 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

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks 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

  9. 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

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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    Unhealthy 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)

  10. on the query details page be able to copy full query text to clipboard easy with a button

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    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

  11. 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.

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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

  12. Be able to identify Base Monitors by a user friendly name in a MSP Solution

    For example in the "Manage Servers" screen, when using a MSP Solution, it's only possible to view the actual names entered on the Base Monitor Configuration page.
    Without having to resort to a DNS work-around for this issue, it would be nice to add the option to use a "Display Friendly name" instead of the name of the Base Monitor Server.
    That way, people who don't know which individual server belongs to which individual client or base monitor, can easily identify them based on their displayname.

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  13. Change "Blocking Processes" icon

    To quicker navigate through the menus when collapsed, better distinct icons would be helpful.

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  14. 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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  15. Show the worst queries per database ordered by CPU

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  16. Change colour of chart line

    When viewing a single metric chart in 'Analysis', the line is a yellow-golden colour, which I find horrible (just my opinion) and hard to focus on - can this be configurable?

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    This was completed in 3.0 – apologies for not updating sooner.

    We changed the colour palette and improved it. We have still had to use yellow due to the number of dbs it’s possible to display, but it will be used last and is more of a mustard/orange yellow now. We’ve also deepened other colours so the Analysis page should be easier to view.

    We hope this is fixes the problem – thanks for the suggestion – and we welcome any feedback.

  17. Report average page life expectancy

    The "page life expectancy" performance counter can be a good indicator of an impending performance problem. It's in the "Buffer Manager" performance object.

    http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/sql-server-bloggers/sql-server-%E2%80%93-what-is-page-life-expectancy-ple-counter/

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  18. Invistigate v3.0 EAP Base Service CPU utilization

    I first installed v2.3 and then switched to v3.0 EAP. It seems that the base service is maxing out CPU utilization which was not the case with 2.3.

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  19. ..retry operations that fail during install/ initial connection to server. Such as at my server where DBCC TRACEON (1204,-1) failed. In that

    ..retry operations that fail during install/ initial connection to server. Such as at my server where DBCC TRACEON (1204,-1) failed. In that case, retrying would be good, to ensure that it is eventually turned on.

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  20. is there fix in the works for IE10?

    In order to see almost anything, need to put browser into IE9 compatibility and some features still not showing like current server stats

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    The update has now been released. SQL Monitor will display a message above the product name banner when it next checks for updates.

    Alternatively, you can get it direct from http://www.red-gate.com/dynamic/products/dba/sql-monitor/download then click the ‘Returning customer installer download’ link on right.

    Please let us know if this doesn’t fix the issue for you.

    Thanks
    SQL Monitor Development Team

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