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.
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How about a custom metric or alert to return data in character value as opposed to just numeric scalar or NULL
I want to have a function much like profiler to collect login data, who logged on & be able to filter on the data collection, for instance, if I only want to see when domain\me connects to the sql server, I would like to track that information. I am aware this can be done with profiler, but I would really like to have the ability to use one tool.
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Provide Mobile version of Alert Monitoring Screen
It may be just me (since no one sle has yet to suggest this) but a mobile friendly version of SQL Monitor for the ALERTS tab would be of great benefit. Currently I check the ALERTS on my SMART PHONE which has a screen waaaayyyy to small to do this but since I have no tablet option I have no other choice.
A mobile option at login to SQL Monitor would let those with smaller sized computing devices acccess the ALERTS tab so as to monitor/check in on their SQL Monitor instance remotely.
Thanks
16 votesThere are currently no plans for a SQL Monitor mobile app. We hope to improve the experience when using SQL Monitor on a mobile device. However at the moment we can’t give a timescale for when this might happen.
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Collecting custom metrics for multiple databases at the same time
ATM, a custom metric can return one value, but sometimes collecting the metric for one database takes the same amount of time as collecting it for all of the databases.
Having a multi-database metric (maybe something that returns a database id -> value map (as a two col table)) would be especially useful if it takes a long time to collect the metric (in my case it takes nearly 30 secs to collect it).
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Allow configuration of Fragmentation Alerts down to Table for EXCLUSIONS
The Fragmentation Alert for a database only permits on/off and low/medium/high with page count configurations.
This is far, far too high a level to be useful.
The Alert needs, at the very least, INCLUSION and EXCLUSION capabilities by table within database. An overall fragmentation low/medium/high and pages would be OK to START WITH, but It would be great to be able to go to each index and state the fragmentation limits and even whether to monitor it.
In my case, I use Idera's excellent Defrag Manager, so when I see this alert, I check that Defrag Manager is doing its…
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Save DMV Snapshots for Analyzing and monitoring changes
Idea is to save snapshots of DMV's so that the changes can be analyzed. For example sys.dmexecprocedure_stats shows only total, last and average elapsed time. It will be great to know how the average changed over a period of time.
Common use case: sysproperties
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Add other Red Gate tools to SQL Monitor as licensed modules
It would be useful if the following tools were additional modules that could be added to the web interface to SQL Monitor;
SQL Backup Pro
Index ManagerFor example, upon receiving a no database/log backup alert it would be great to just click into another section of SQL Monitor to then diagnose/fix the issue rather than using an external application. Additionally the capability within Index Manager would sit well in SQL Monitor as a logical extension for the fragmented index alert.
This would allow SQL Monitor to be the primary place that a DBA would need to go in order…
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Option to exclude custom metric from Analysis Graph page
When setting up a custom metric, have the ability to exclude it from the Analysis Graph page. E.g. I set up a metric that checks the AutoUpdateStatistics setting for each database and then creates an alert if a database is set to OFF for this setting.
It is however not needed in the Analysis Graph page as it is purely an alert.4 votes -
Create alert on items in Analysis Graph
The ability to create an alert metric around data which is currently being collected for the Analysis graphs. E.g. Being able to alert when the BufferPagerLifeExpectancy drops below a certain amount.
32 votes
Daniel Rothig
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Add an option to schedule when custom metrics run against a given database.
Currently when a custom metric is executed can only be controlled by the frequency (daily, hourly, etc).
My primary purpose is for daily. I would like to schedule the time of day a daily metric is run per database, or at least server. The custom metrics I pull back are time sensitive so controlling when the metric is returned is a must.
A more advanced option to this would be going beyond simply choosing the time of day for daily runs, but rather the ability to build a custom schedule of run times. An example might be Custom Metric A…
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Add custom metrics to Overview(s)
Add the ability to choose what is displayed on the overview for a given server/instance - especially with the addition of custom metrics.
Even better would be to allow the addition of multiple overviews (aka Dashboards) and configure what each one displays.
25 votesDaniel Rothig
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We like that idea – if it gains traction, we’ll prioritise it more
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custom group order
I'd like to be able to pick an order of my groups... dev, prod, staging in alpha I'd prefer to see prod, staging, dev.
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Add % CPU Usage column for the "User SQL processes (top 10 by CPU usage)" section.
On the Overview page for the SQL Server instance there is a section: User SQL processes (top 10 by CPU usage) that show current SPIDs that are utilizing CPU resources. This section should show the actual % of CPU usage for that SPID.
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Have audible alerts on SQL Monitor
It would be very helpful to have a configuration setting to make alerts audible (something like a beep or alarm ring). In the office we have a screen that displays the SQL Monitor where the alerts are only noticed when people look at the screen, which is not very often.
An audible alert of 'red' alerts would prompt us to action them straight the way.
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Add additional perfmon counters
It would be useful to have configurable perfmon counters available in "Analysis" above and beyond the out-of-the-box counters.
65 votesDaniel Rothig
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For SQL Server perf counters, you can create a Custom Metric against sys.dm_os_performance_counters. For Machine perf counters, you have to use CLI at the moment
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allow more configuration options for the 'Job duration unusual' alert
The 'Job duration unusual' alert is based off of the last ten runs of a job. I think allowing a configurable number of runs to be a baseline or better yet, the last x runs at the same time of day would be ideal.
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Add more visibility to captured system processes
A view of all system processes is available whenever an alert is clicked. It would be nice to get the same view of system processes with their CPU and memory consumption for a specified time even of there is no alert to click on at that time.
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Do other tasks than send email on new alert
It would be nice if it was possible to allow other tasks when a alert is raised. Other tasks which could be called: Script file, url, exe file.
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Jobs in calender formart so you can see when they are all schedualed.
It would be nice if you could see all jobs on the server. Perhaps in a calender format so that you can see when they are schedualed. It would be nice if you could drag and drop so that it changes start times. It would be nice if you could see the job history as well.
83 votesDaniel Rothig
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We like the idea – if this idea gains traction, we’ll look into implementing something like this
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Save and Export/Import sql monitor settings
Setting up custom alerts and servers is quite a bit of work. For example some jobs are more important than others. A different set of people get notified for some jobs. I have setup custom alert settings on many of the jobs this way. recently I had to move monitoring host to a different server and replicating same settings took me a lot of time. hence need ability to be able to export settings from one server and import to another. May be this will work through the monitoring database but I had to change the database from 2008 to…
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Add number of alerts to browser tab
I always have SQL Monitor open as one of the tabs on my browser (Chrome). What might be useful is to change the text of the tab (only when it is set to Global Overview) to include the number of alerts (unread or uncleared I'm not sure.....) - much like if you have Gmail inbox open, then any unread items make the tab text "Gmail - inbox (1)'
3 votes
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