Suggestions
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Tracking Aborted Queries and Memory Grants in Redgate Monitor / Azure SQL Managed Instance
After contacting Red-Gate support, I understand that individual query monitoring for Azure Managed Instance is currently not supported nor on the roadmap. Is it possible to add this feature to an upcoming release of Red-Gate Monitor?
TL;DR Below
The article below mentions the ability to track cancelled or aborted queries. This would be particularly helpful for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Tracking Aborted Queries and Memory Grants in Redgate Monitor
https://www.red-gate.com/blog/tracking-aborted-queries-and-memory-grants-in-redgate-monitor• Cancelled or aborted queries – immediately see when a query fails to complete, whether due to timeouts, user cancellation, or connection issues
Query Executions in Redgate Monitor
https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/redgate-monitor/query-executions-in-redgate-monitor1 vote -
Security auditing
Monitor SQL Server login and database user activity to identify unused or anomalous accounts. Supports security audits, enforces the Principle of Least Privilege (POLP), and helps retire or restrict dormant or misused accounts.
The tool will collect and analyze login usage data across all servers and databases. It will:
Report accounts that have not been used within a configurable time period.
Identify accounts active in unexpected contexts (e.g., unauthorized hostnames or outside normal business hours).
Allow administrators to define thresholds or parameters for expected usage and generate alerts when violations occur.
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that DevOps team that can only monitor their own database can also suspend them without having administrator rights
at the moment when people have administrator rights within Redgate Monitor they can suspend their databases but also all other databases we monitor. we would like to be able to grant teams rights to only be able to suspend the databases that they use and have rights to see within Redgate Monitor.
3 votes -
group similar queries
I have queries which are created by string concatenation in a legacy product.
These queries differ by some IDs in a IN clause.In SQL monitor, these queries are all shown as different queries in the "top queries" section.
I would like that all those similar queries are shown as one query in the "top queries" section so that I can better find long running/problematic queries.
3 votes -
Add multiple actions for alerts based on different conditions
It would be nice to be able to configure different actions for the same alert based on different criteria.
For example, with the SQL Job failure alert - It would be very useful to be able to have these alerts go to X email address if the job contains "DBA" in the job name, and the alert go to Y email address if the job doesn't contain that text in the job name (This is just a basic example, being able to configure multiple of these types of filters would be the goal).
Right now the only possible…
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Within the Reporting option, allow 'Alert Summary' tile the ability to select a individual servers
Within the Reporting option, allow 'Alert Summary' tile the ability to select a individual servers within an AlwaysOn cluster. Currently you can only select the cluster name.
1 vote -
Simplify alerts without mentioning product names like PostgreSQL
Few alerts in Redgate Monitor ends with "(SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)".
We don't use PostgreSQL and don't plan to do it. Would be nice to turn off that feature permanently so that, for example message like “Database unavailable (SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)” shown as “Database unavailable”2 votes -
Filtering on a Postgres Aurora Cluster based on Node
When adding a Aurora Postgres Cluster to be monitored, if it has multiple nodes, say a reader/writer. Can we get a feature that will show only the metrics related to that specific node. Say I want to see only the CPU/Memory/Throughput for the writer node only and vice versa for the reader node.
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Custom Queries in Reports or Provide Queries to make own Reports
I'd like to be able to either paste in my own queries to build a report from (a la PowerBI) or, better yet, be able to access some of the code for your existing queries so I can make custom reports in PowerBI. (For instance, the Longest Running Queries summary tile is extremely limited at the moment, if I had the code I could quickly make it in PowerBI and make it do what I wanted.
I understand its Red-Gate code and therefore you'd want to keep it to yourselves, but it would deeply expand the reporting features and make…4 votes -
Tracked queries only available to admins
Tracked queries are only available for Administrators. Would it be possible to adjust the permission for Standard users to allow for this feature? At the moment we are forced to assign admin roles more broadly than we’d like because of insufficient granularity of permissions.
And this feature (especially if combined with some metadata as highlighted in https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/46675642-ability-to-add-notes-to-tracked-queries ) is a shame to not allow standard users to utilize.3 votes -
Add custom banner to the logon page
Basic authentication is sufficient for simple installations for few users. But security recommendations require a custom banner be displayed at the logon page. It will be nice if Redgate Monitor can do that without using OpenID or other external authentication methods.
1 vote -
Grant Web Client Access for Specific Elastic Pool, Instance or Database
We can currently share the web console out at the Server, Cluster or Replica level.
I would like more granularity and be able to share at lower levels:- SQL Server Instance
- Azure SQL Elastic Pool
- Azure SQL Database
We are a very large IT department with people dedicated to individual systems/databases.
I would prefer to hide things they don't own.3 votes -
Allow the reports to use all the data my retention policy allows.
Generating reports seems to limit it to 30 days of data. For trending we would like to use all the data our retention policy allows. Not sure why there is a limit.
6 votes -
Support Individual query monitoring in Azure SQL Database
This sounds like a useful feature. I wish it was available for my environment.
4 votes -
SQL Versions Page
Hi there,
We maintain a number of legacy SQL Servers that are still monitored via SQL Monitor. I regularly use the SQL Versions page to identify which instances require patching.
However, some of these servers are under a permanent patch freeze, and I’d like to update their status to “OK” so they no longer appear as needing attention.
It would be amazing if one could update the patch status for these servers within Redgate to mark them as compliant to reflect their frozen state.
3 votes -
be able to extract all alerts at once rather than extracting for individual alerts via API
Redgate Monitor API currently allows users to extract alert details for individual alert types. We need an API endpoint that can extract alert details for all alert types instead of calling the API multiple times.
10 votes -
We would like to have a log of users that did use RedGate Monitor
In that way we could create a report of the users when they did use RedGate Monitor. example a weekly or monthly report showing how many times a user did use the application.
3 votes -
Alerts should configurable to repeat until an issue is resolved
We'd like the option for alerts to repeat until an issue is resolved. For instance, we may have a custom alert to tell us when a DBCC CheckDB hasn't been performed in >24hrs. For that we'd perform the check once per day and expect to get an alert every day that the problem continues. Without the alert recurring it's very easy for it to slip through the cracks and get missed.
Another example is blocking. We have some databases where we monitor blocking via SQL Agent and when a block occurrs for 1m or more, we send emails every 30s…
6 votes -
Schema name in the Indexes tab and Top procedures tab on the overview page
In SQL server it is possible to have indexes with the same name on different tables. It is also possible to have tables with the same name on different schemas. Therefore, you can have indexes with the same names on tables with the same names on different schemas. The same is true for stored procedures.
Since there is no data on the index and stored procedure's schema in the Indexes tab and Top procedures tab on the overview page, one does not know which exact SP or index is in the table.
12 votes -
Add additional metrics for Latency, Failover, queries categories for MongoDB
• Replicaset metrics around latency and failovers…etc. Like SQL Server.
• Something to track queries performing large scans vs seeks.
• Would be nice if the alerts (even if duplicated were broken out by platform. They are shown by SQL which I get is your primary offering, but just saying also postgressql vs seeing its PostgressSQL on Linux or MongoDB on Linux and change the alert offering to reflect those in a separate grouping like SQL.
1 vote
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