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  1. be able to customize email and Slack notifications

    Option to customize email and Slack notifications

    42 votes
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  2. It would be nice, if you provide option to create alert notifiaction with custom alert body...

    It would be nice, if you could provide option to create alert notification with custom alert body...

    This way we can create task automatically based on the alert notificatiopn

    1 vote
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  3. Use base monitor service user account to authenticate with vcenter

    When monitoring a vcenter deployment, it would be nice if the base monitor service could just delegate the credentials it is running as rather than entering them in the username and password boxes inside sql monitor.

    9 votes
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  4. Re-fire alert notification if alert stays active

    My initial problem was that an alert that was still active was marked as cleared, but I wanted the alert to 're-appear' as essentially it hadn't been fixed.

    This then led me to thinking about any alerts that can move from Active to Ended. It would be useful to configure these is such a way that if they stay Active for a given period, then they re-fire. I understand that is what the multiple thresholds can be used for (especially if the thresholds define time periods) but in this case I may already be at High, there is no further…

    28 votes
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  5. Please enabled UI Spanish interface

    Please enable other language for UI

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  6. Print the server overview

    Print the server overview (scroll) to share with team members to assist in correction of failures.

    3 votes
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  7. Long running query alerts and daylight saving time changes

    many long running query alerts generated between 1 am and 2 am on Sunday 11/5, as the time change caused it to add an hour when calculating all the query times. Can the alert be adjusted to account for the time change?

    1 vote
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  8. Manually rerun a metric

    When an alert pops up, after I fix the problem, I want to refresh the metric to ensure that it was fixed. There's no way to tell how often the data is refreshed.

    4 votes
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  9. Allow extended email addresses "xxx<myemail@yyy.com>" or custom prefixes for subject line

    I send my alerts to a tech-staff group and would like to add specific text for end users to filter all SQL monitor emails against. Either allowing extended email address like "xxxmyemail@yyy.com"
    or some global prefix that can be added to subject (or body for that matter). Right now I don't see any reference to redgate or sql monitor to distinguish it from other monitoring email I receive.

    1 vote
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  10. Have choice to send email as plain text

    When I have it send email to my text service it's HTML, which obviously makes the text msg very large. Allow choice to send alerts via plain text.

    8 votes
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  11. Customized Alerts

    Hi,

    Can we get a report which shows top 10 databases by growth over a certain period of time, across all the monitored SQL instances?

    There should be one graph which shows top 10 databases by growth, gathering data from all the databases scattered across multiple SQL instances, rather than multiple graphs showing top 10 databases by growth.

    It would be nice to have so that we can determine what databases do we need to focus on.

    Thanks,
    Hammad

    2 votes
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  12. Restrict the read only role to only the "Overview" page.

    I've explored using Read Only views for SQL Monitor and they work great, while really parring down the amount of information that the user can see. However, is there are way to lock it down even further so that they can only see the homescreen with the colored status on the specified SQL Instances? Essentially only allowing them to see status without drilling down into the instance itself and viewing waits, disk, CPU etc.

    This could be used by management, etc.

    5 votes
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  13. Job execution in overview graphs

    It would be nice if you in the Overview graphs could see SQL Agent Jobs, just like long running queries, deadlocks etc.
    It could be good for troubleshooting high disk IO, CPU etc, if you could see that a job has started running at a point.

    I've tried to illustrate my idea in the attached file.

    8 votes
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  14. Enhance Reports with additional Summary Tiles

    Different Summary Tiles for example: Servers with lowest Page Life Expectancy, Servers with Highest Transactions/Second, Servers with Highest Disk Transfers/Second,

    3 votes
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  15. nagstamon support

    hi,

    it would be very nice to have support for nagstamon.

    https://nagstamon.ifw-dresden.de/

    thanks.

    3 votes
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  16. Search SQL Monitor Long Running Query Alerts By User Running Query

    It would be very useful to search the Long Running Query alerts for a user? The alert text that is displayed in the GUI and in the alert emails list the user running the query. I have Monitor set up to only send the alert emails for my HIGH category. But, when I want to do analysis or documentation, I would love to find all of the alerts Low, Med or High, that are attributed to a specific user or a group of users. Is that possible? To filter the list in the UI to only show alerts from a…

    10 votes
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  17. Enable extended events per server

    Currently, enabling the use of extended events is a global setting.

    It would be great if this could be enabled per server, to avoid well-documented issues (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2878139/fix-using-dbghelp-dll-version-4-0-5-error-is-logged-in-sql-server-2012) between extended events and older versions of SQL Server (namely SQL 2008 which is still in extended support until 2019)

    15 votes
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  18. deadlock frame procname text missing final character

    The SQL displayed under the frame procname for a deadlock is missing the final character of the SQL.
    e.g: and #ttable.StartDate is nul
    Should be
    and #ttable.StartDate is null

    1 vote
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  19. Support for showing multiple metrics with the same units on Analysis Graph

    When showing more than one metric on a graph on the Analysis page, I fully understand that it is difficult to merge the units scales on the x axis. So what you get is each graph has it's 'own' x axis - and I get that - it makes sense when the units are incompatible (eg. percentage vs KB used vs batch/sec).

    But when all the metrics are measure in the same units, it can create a visually confusing graph.

    For example I'm looking at memory usage over time, so I've chosen Machine: memory used, SQL Server: total memory, SQL…

    26 votes
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  20. Add exclusions to Job Failing alerts

    When a user deliberately stops a job while it's running, it fires a job failed alert. Add exclusion regex so we can add something like "The job was stopped prior to completion by User...." to ignore these.

    14 votes
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