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  1. Add date to legend when filtering across multiple days

    When we filter on the top graph across multiple days, on the legend below won't show the days, just the time.

    The image is the current case.

    What I would like is to have the days.
    Instead of "from 08:18 to 08:19"
    expected "from 18 Jun 08:18 to 19 Jun 08:19" or equivalent

    4 votes
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  2. AG sync progress

    Implement Availability Group data synchronization progress.
    We use Automatic seeding and stats can be observed under "sys.dmhadrautomaticseeding" and "sys.dmhadrphysicalseeding_stats".
    Maybe that info not 100% accurate when Traceflag 9567 is ON, but anyway somehow helpful

    1 vote
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  3. Schedule hourly reports to email out and base on groups

    I would like to be able to send hourly email report for example Failed sql agent jobs base on a group not just one server, covering certain period of time like 9-5 each day of the week Monday- Friday.

    5 votes
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  4. Expiring Certificates

    Would really helpful to have an alert for expiring certificates on a cert be it backup encryption ones or tde certs that are going to be expiring and we specifies how much notice we want given before the expiry

    8 votes
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  5. Long Running Open SSMS Transaction

    Would be really helpful to have an alert that can alert on long running open SSMS transaction and the alert can return the user running it and query being run and on what server we often see it when users forget to commit or role back there transaction.

    4 votes
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  6. Use a private route for AWS RDS instances to remove the need for a public endpoint to monitor the instance

    The current configuration only allows for the specific format my-db-identifier.random-chars.aws-region.rds.amazonaws.com / my-db-identifier.random-chars.rds.aws-region.amazonaws.com.cn. We would like the ability to use any dns name to allow intra-cloud or hybrid cloud scenarios for the ability to use a private/internal route to the RDS instance so that we do not have to use the public route for monitoring.

    3 votes
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  7. Uptime of my SQL server database servers

    I need to be able to account for yearly uptime for my SQL server estate and also receive proactive alerts when they are shutting down.

    1 vote
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  8. Add ability to collapse the "Query details"/"Wait type"/"User memory" list under a specific query.

    Often we want to screenshot the execution pattern, the graph below all these areas and because all of those occupy a big chunk of space on the screen, this becomes harder.

    We end by "zoom-out", crops, or even picking multiple screenshots and doing collages.

    Thanks

    2 votes
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  9. Add the ability to use "special" characters (@, #, etc) when using searching in "Top Queries"

    Hi, I'm trying to search some query patterns on the "Top Queries" grid for example "INSERT INTO @" or "INSERT INTO #" (to get all inserts on table variables or temp tables) however, in both situations, the @ and the # is being ignored.

    Please include those (and other chars) to refine our searches.

    Not sure if "RegEx" would be another option that would be even broader.

    Thanks

    3 votes
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  10. Monitor Cluster Shared Volumes

    Under the “Analysis” section, there are cluster metrics which include four different options relating to Cluster Shared Volume usage.
    • Used Bytes
    • Used %
    • Free Bytes
    • Free %

    If we click on the above, we can review our CSV’s to see whether we are approaching the drives maximum capacity.
    What isn’t included is the performance of the disk. For instance, under the Machine metrics section, the following is available:-

    • Disk avg read time
    • Disk avg write time
    • Disk read bytes/sec
    • Disk write bytes/sec
    • Disk transfers/sec
    • Avg disk queue length.

    However, these…

    10 votes
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  11. “Longest Running Queries” in Redgate SQL Monitor Reports

    I need to show more “Longest Running Queries” in Redgate SQL Monitor Reports. The layout of the report is also a bit awkward, it seems if everything does not fit into the report.
    See attachment.

    10 votes
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  12. Being able to filter "TOP Queries" by any of the columns

    On the "TOP Queries" grid we can order it by any of the columns (besides "Database").

    I would like to be able to filter the rows by the amounts.

    Example:
    Filter queries where "Execution count > 100" same for other columns.
    Then apply the "order by".

    This way we can filter together with the "Enter search term" box.

    6 votes
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  13. Ability to add notes to tracked queries

    When working in an environment with multiple people is typical that each person is tracking different queries to analyse ongoing changes/improvements.

    Being able to note something as "Tracked by Cláudio. Following FIX #1234" would be great.

    It will give us a clue on who is working on what and reach out to that person. Or just keep small notes during the analyses.

    9 votes
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    under review  ·  Neil Turner responded

    A great suggestion. We are exploring this as part of a wider review into improving query tuning features.

  14. Grant more granular report level access

    I can grant report level access to a user by adding them to the Reports User role and I can restrict the servers which they see reports for.

    However, this role gives the user more permissions than I would like to give - they can still view any other page - alerts, server overview etc

    Can we change this so they can see the reports only?

    2 votes
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  15. Modifying of several alerts for specific entity could be more user friendly

    1) after change tree in left panel with all servers collapse and again should expand nodes down to place where I left
    2) color of changed records could be more visible, maybe some light background could be added

    4 votes
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  16. Number of rows returned by query

    I'd like the ability to view the number of row returned by a query. Tools like Dynatace, XRebel, New Relic are able to display this and it's extremely useful in identifying queries that are selecting too many rows and in need for application logic / code rework.

    1 vote
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  17. Have a free-text notes field for each server\instance

    A notes field can be used for any useful information such as business contacts, service hours or documentation links, etc.

    16 votes
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  18. Long-Running Query Alert - Occurrences tab to refer only to instances of that query

    In the long running query alert, the occurrence tab shows a history of occurrences of the long running query alert. These alerts are the history of any long-running query rather than just the query in the alert

    It would be helpful to be able to see a long running query alert and see just the alerts for that query to be able to quickly understand whether this query is a regular problem, or something new.

    I appreciate it is possible by highlighting the time period in the server overview page, finding the query and then viewing the query history but…

    4 votes
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  19. Set a configurable delay to send the Resolved/Ended emails

    Sometimes the emails sent by SQLmonitor to PagerDuty are delayed for some minutes
    In this case it can happen that PagerDuty received the "Resolved/Ended" emails before the "Raised" emails because this one has been delayed for too long and because the alert was resolved after 1 or 2 minutes...
    When it happening the alert is never closed and generate a useless phone call
    So to fix this issue we would like to delay all the "Resolved/Ended" emails send by SQL monitor to be sure that PagerDuty received the "Raised" emails before "Resolved/Ended" emails

    4 votes
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  20. TempDB Percentage Free Space Monitor/Alert

    Common practice is to put TEMPDB files on a dedicated disk and size TEMPDB to fill the entire disk.

    When TEMPDB grows unexpectedly it can quickly use all the space on the disk and is a common cause of SQL Server issues.

    We have great observability about TEMPDB issues in SQL Monitor now but no default alerts.

    We have some metrics we can alert on such as TEMPDB Free Bytes, but a literal value is not much use in a mixed environment where some servers have 1TB+ TempDB databases and some have only 30GB.

    We collect a custom percentage free…

    5 votes
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