Suggestions
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View stats for queries across databases and / or servers
Given that one has multiple similar databases, recieving the same queries, having same indexes and so forth. Currently one are able to view top-queries on server and database level, but what would be very valuable is to see the same information across databases on a server and across servers where one would then match the query on a content of the query itself. Then one could pinpoint globally what queries that has high io / cpu / ... even tough they on a individual db-level is not "high"
1 vote -
Create smaller timeframes on the server overview page.
Currently if you dive into the overview page of a certain server the default timeframe is 24 hours, you can narrow this into 12,6,3 and 1 hour.
I would like to have the opportunity to narrow it down into minutes.like a custom time frame. This helps to do a more clean investigation.
3 votes -
Monitor Partitioned Tables in SQL Server
Be able to monitor and alert on sql paritioned tables. Such as if a retention of a table is 30 days and it retains data greater then 30 days, I should be able to get an alert. Be able to get alert on things like if older partitions are not merging or new partitions are not splitting or data being stuck in one partition...etc Able to see growth and changes in the partitions...
3 votes -
Testing the Availability Group listener(s)
If an Availability Group listener is not working for any reason (like no DNS resolution), but the ressource is still up in the cluster, SQL Monitor will not raise any alert.
Could you add a specific test for SQL monitor to test the connection using the availability group listener(s) and raise an alert if not successful?
7 votes -
Remember the Filter Layout
On the Alert Inbox it would be nice to be able to re-arrange the filters and for the options to be remembered no matter where I login.
1 vote -
Exclude serverless databases from monitoring
Need the ability to exclude serverless databases from scanning. The purpose of using serverless is to suspend when not in use, drastically reducing costs. Currently these databases are "kept awake" by SQL Monitor and never go to sleep. This is a deal-breaker for use on some of our servers...
5 votes -
SQL Monitor to Authenticate Directly with Office 365, Exchange Online
Hello, it would be great if SQL Monitor could authenticate directly with Office 365 rather than having to use an on-premises SMTP server. Exchange Online is probably the most widely used email service for business and the application is unable to successfully authenticate with it. Thanks.
3 votes -
alert when database was created / dropped
It would be nice to have a build in alert when someone (e.g. a vendor) created or dropped a database.
Reasons:
- you may want to delete old backup files (if dropped) or have to modify / delete some maintenances
- you'll make a manual full backup of the new DB so that log-backups could be taken by your backup solution
- maybe you have to add the new DB to monitoring (as DLM Dashboard), backups (and have to consinder its the disk space at the backup drive) or an Excel-Sheet with a list of your databases :-)Real-Live-Example:
I…5 votes -
Add Query Impact metrics into analysis graphs
Add the ability to report on Query Impact metric in the analysis section to monitor trends.
3 votes -
azure overview
Azure SQL databases display differently than SQL server databases on the overview page, which makes them difficult to see. And even with the Azure SQL databases, there are further differences if the databases are members of elastic pools or not.
Please change the Overview Page to either a) show them more consistently, since there's no other indication of what's different.
or b) rearchitect the way Azure SQL DBs are displayed on the overview page so it's clear they are Azure SQL and that would also give you the ability to show them whatever way makes the most sense for the…3 votes -
"Take Screenshot" Feature in Analysis Section
I have the need very often to take screenshots for non-technical management slideshows.
Could you add a button in the analysis panel to take a screenshot of the analysis timeline?
I would like to obtain something like this (with a single click)
https://images4.imagebam.com/c4/e9/b5/MEC1R73_o.png
Thank you
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can use proxy
We have internet access through proxy. I need SQL Monitor to work through this. for example download latest update
2 votes -
Have option to keep the base instance name in display for availability groups
We have the option to choose between Windows cluster name and FCI network name for FCI. However, in an Availability Group scenario, every instance is being show by the cluster name first, which is obviously the same for all of them. This makes it difficult to identify the correct one when you need to look at a specific instance. Would like to add this as a configuration option so that clustered AG servers we can also choose whether to use cluster name or instance name as display
6 votes -
To show top server Process memory usage
Under the "Processes", it would that we can sort the top memory usage as well. There are times we got alert that the server memory usage is high and we need to know what other OS processes is utilizing the server memory other than SQL.
1 vote -
Have more retention periods for the data retention settings.
Right now on the data retention settings screen, there is only a drop down with a static list of ranges to keep data. It would be useful if these could be more granular, like being able to set both the number and interval (month,day,year). At a minimum, it would be nice if there were options between 1 year and indefinitely.
8 votes -
Update the password of the account with powershell module
I do not want to use the base monitoring account, to monitor the different databases. So I need to use a separate account for that. In order to regularly be able to rotate the password of this account, I would need the PowerShell module be updated with a function to update the password.
3 votes -
For the "Job failing" alert, add the ability to exclude job categories
The "Job failing" alert currently has the ability to exclude jobs based on job name and owner. It would be very useful to also have the ability to exclude jobs based on the Agent Job Category.
2 votes -
Data Export
Export the top querys list with detail as excel file or can be mail to another person.
1 vote -
Increase SQL Monitor email Alerts to larger than 400 KB
We have some alerts for important servers that require you to login to SQL Monitor to see the full details because they exceed 400 KB. The alert currently reads:
"Details
Details omitted because they exceeded 400KB. Please log into SQL Monitor to view them.
View full alert details
Configure alert"Please increase this value so that we can see the full alert details within an email instead of having to login to SQL Monitor to see them.
Thank-you!
3 votes -
Fragmented Indexes
Would like to add row count and fill factor to the alert as depending on how many rows there are depends on whether a reaction is needed
Fragmented indexes:
Index Table name Fragmentation(%) No. of pages1 vote
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