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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. ..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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  5. 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

  6. Oh, I love this new version of SQL Monitor!

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  7. provide a timeout setting on SQL Managed servers tab.

    Hi there, We have a few sites that are offsite from our main building. The line speeds are not very good and therefore we get timeouts on our connections under managed servers. If you can maybe provide a setting to allow a bigger timout here this will help quite a lot.

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    completed  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    Good news, this already exists. In the “edit credentials” dialogue, there is an “edit connection properties” link that gives you a host of options, including the time out (which is 15s by default)

  8. Allow users to specify the time period for the top 10 expensive queries

    We are trying to use the top 10 expensive queries feature on the overview page to find out what is running at a certain time when we see CPU spikes.

    This would be much easier if as well as a drop-down to select queries for the last x time units, a user could instead specify a date range of their own choosing

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  9. Description of Full scans/sec

    In Explanation it says
    "a lot of index scans may indicate missing indexes"

    I guess it should be "full scans" ?

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  10. A version support page

    Add a page on your site to list the current versions (liked to release notes) and all previous versions so we can easily see how many versions back we are or if we are at the latest one.

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  11. On the main dashboard please maintain a consistent ordering.

    Dashboard element sorting should be fixed preferably in alphabetical order. The whole idea of a dashboard should be to provide an at a glance view of the state of your server set. When you change the order from servername when all is green to some other order because something has triggered an alert on a server I have to spend extra time figuring out which server has an issue because the sort order has changed.

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Version 6.0.11 has now been released and amongst the enhancements is the ability to fix the servers in alphabetical order (Oder by: Name).

    If you have any feedback, email sqlmonitorfeedback@red-gate.com

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  12. Don't bloat plan cache

    Fix this query so the nvarchar() parm is of a fixed size (or MAX). As is, each invocation is generating its own execution plan and bloating the plan cache.

    (@p0 bigint,@p1 bigint,@p2 nvarchar(560))INSERT INTO [data].[ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesInstances] ([Id], [CollectionDate], [QueryText]) VALUES (@p0, @p1, @p2)

    (@p0 bigint,@p1 bigint,@p2 nvarchar(159))INSERT INTO [data].
    [ClusterSqlServerTopQueriesInstances] ([Id], [CollectionDate], [QueryText]) VALUES (@p0, @p1, @p2)

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Completed in v6.0.3
    Thanks again for the suggestion, we appreciate your input.
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  13. Add AM PM or military time to alert times since they aren't listed

    Process login time: 3 Nov 2016 09:00
    Query start time: 3 Nov 2016 09:00
    Would either want them in military time, or listed w/ AM PM so I know when they occurred

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Closing as this has been available since 6.0.7
    You can find this option on Configuration > Display settings. Please let us know if this is not working as you expect.
    Thanks

  14. improve speed when navigating through the GUI

    It takes quite sometime to navigate across the screens on V6.0 would be a welcome relief if we have performance improvement on the UI

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for raising your suggestion. We’ve made a number of performance improvements over recent releases. Whilst we will continue to make improvements, hopefully this meets your expectation regarding this suggestion, so I will close this issue.

    If you have any specific issues or suggestions around performance, please reply to this or raise another UserVoice suggestion so we can investigate.

    Thanks
    Adam

  15. Overview database growth estimation

    When planning new server we have to estimate how much space will be taken by database during life cycle of new SQL server and when SQL monitor watching server for us I would like to have possibility see following:

    • Database file size portion
    • Log File size portion and how much of that contain free space
    • Estimated growth (as information in Alert)
    • Summarized size per disk (if possible with how much space left)
    • Have this available as summary tile in the report, so I can reactive this info as email.

    Thanks and regards,

    //Radek

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  16. Prompted for update to version 8.0.12 but website is a dead end

    The "update" link in the SQL monitor console takes me to a "learn more" page with no link to an update EXE. I am referred to a zip file with a SQLBundle EXE which doesn't contain the Monitor, or an outdated version of SQL Monitor.

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Hi,

    Thank you for reporting this, and apologies that you encountered it. We removed version 8.0.12 owing to a bug, and have since released 8.0.13.

    I will close this suggestion, but if you require further assistance with this issue, please could you let us know using the support forum https://forum.red-gate.com/categories/sql-monitor-7

    Kind regards,
    Adam
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  17. New Licensing for Azure SQL Databases

    If you are going to start licensing by the number of Azure SQL Databases, at least provide the option of adding and removing databases from the Azure SQL Server.
    I have three databases on one Azure SQL Server that are costing me licenses, however two are data warehouses and one is paused. If they are not being monitored, why am I being charged for a license?

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thank you for this suggestion.

    The ability to add/remove individual licenses for Azure SQL Databases has been implemented in version 8.0.22, released on 13th November.

    We hope this meets your requirements and will mark this suggestion as completed, but please do let us know if you have any further feedback.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  18. Read Only users should not view Analysis page.

    When restricting "Read Only" users they can still see all servers when viewing the "Analysis" page. I think this should also exclude any servers not explicitly defined in the Managed Users page.

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. This has been fixed in Version 9.0.6 (although I would suggest updating to the most recent version, v9.0.7 at time of writing) when we fixed the issue SRP-11791: AD user can see names of servers they don’t have access to fixed for Analysis and Backups.

    Hopefully this completes this suggestion.

    Thanks,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  19. In the Estate view you are 2 CU's behind for SQL Server 2016.

    Currently SQL Monitor shows the latest SQL Server 2016 version to be SP2 CU4 yet the latest is SP2 CU6. This should show the latest version.

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  20. Add 2017 CU14 to Estate view

    Currently SQL Monitor shows the latest SQL Server 2017 version to be CU13 yet the latest is CU14. This should show the latest version.

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