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Top 50 Queries should ignore queries that runs with explicit "waitfor"
The query that runs with explicit "waitfor" should not be included in the top 50 query report.
7 votes -
Service Level Agreement Metric Report
The following contract metrics are common to many US Government clients. It would be very helpful (and a real time-saver) if SQL Monitor had report that could provide the below listed SLA's in a monthly email to an editable distribution. The report should be .pdf or .xlsx format, with layout intended to communicate to executive audiences. The setup for the report should allow comparing baseline dates. Thanks in advance for considering this idea.
- List of database instances
- Database uptime
- Components that are reaching capacity
- Computer resources growth
- Reserve capacity
- Throughput I/O
22 votes -
Control the delay before getting "Error on Base Monitor"
We have perhaps a unique use case where one of our Base Monitors is at a remote site with a very high latency (700+ ms). Monitoring works surprisingly well since one of the later updates but unfortunately we are getting regular “Error on Base Monitor” emails (10+ per day) even though the connection itself is stable (just very slow).
We would like to be able to control the delay before that error is raised, I’m guessing that slightly increasing this "timeout" would fix all our issues.3 votes -
Add counter [forwarded_record_count] to Analysis page
As you describe in this article: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/database-administration/sql-server-heaps-and-their-fragmentation/
forwarded-record-count From sys.dm-db-index-physical-stats
Please add forwarded-record-count to Analysis page
Thanks guys!
14 votes -
Detailed Memory usage breakdown
I would like to see a breakdown of memory usage. For example, how much memory is used by the plan cache, how much for the buffer pool, etc.
Also, a breakdown of memory usage per database.8 votes -
list, and get alerts from the SQL Monitor API.
Add possibility to list, and get alerts from the SQL Monitor API.
This so we more easily can share and distribute alerts to a users that shouldn't have access to SQL Monitor.
In my org we have a lot of developers, and a lot of different databases that are hosted on the same clusters, I want the possibility to send more direct alerts and messages to these users.
42 votes -
Please add granular details on memory and processor usage
Please add granular details on memory and processor usage to display resources used by each individual process
2 votes -
Display maintenance windows on timeline
When looking at the timeline graph with the CPU/IO/Waits stats it would be very nice to see the maintenance windows, for example as a difference background color.
This would help immediately recognize why IO is spiking for example. I realize that can also be accomplished with the Baseline for regular maintenance but I don't see it as mutually exclusive since a maintenance window can be configured at any time.3 votes -
Availability Group alert details
It would be great to see the server name in the mail body which is affected by the alert. Currently it is only in the subject. EG: Raised on detail i the mail body contains the primary replica, the affected unreachable replica is only in the subject.
1 vote -
Report that shows top 50 long running queries across the estate
Submitting an enhancement request to expand the reporting capabilities for long running across the entire estate. The report tile only show a handful. It would be very useful to be able to run a report listing the top 25, 50, etc long running queries across the entire SQL estate. The data is available somewhere but instead of going into each instance a consolidated report would be greatly beneficial is order to identify queries for performance review. We are also going through an upgrade and are identifying queries to benchmark for before and after performance to ensure there is no degradation.
4 votes -
Have a parameter for status/severity colour
when using slack notifications messages are automatically coloured red/green for failed, ended.
Like a lot of companies we're migrating to Microsoft Teams and whilst we can use the Webhook stuff to reproduce most of the slack alert for Teams we're not able to colour code the alert based on status. Having a new parameter for status-colour and severity-colour would really allow us to clean this up.
2 votes -
Have a custom message added to alerts
When an alert is emailed, I want to place an action (possibly including an html link) as a comment on the alert.
This would allow the recipient of the alert to solve the issue directly.
6 votes -
Custom metrics and alerts powershell cmdlet
Could there be a cmdlet to create custom metrics and alerts using Powershell
14 votes -
Overviews Alert Severity Colours
When I go to the overviews page the servers have different alert levels represented by a colour and a symbol. I would like the choice of colours to be easier to identify for colour blind people, so the healthy, low and medium have colours that are almost identical to colour blind people as the contrast is so similar: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~melacy/pages/2D_Design/Itten_ColorContrasts/ColorWheel02.png
2 votes -
Customize alerts at the host level in a windows cluster
Currently you cant customize host level alerts at the host level only at the windows cluster level.
A few scenarios where this is needed :-
Always-on cluster where one node is for the application and you have a read-only secondary for reporting. I need to be alerted for the application node for high CPU, but the report server is usually often hits 100% CPU during business hours.
Multi node regular failover cluster with different application owners. 3 nodes, app1 lives on node1, app2 lives on node2, node 3 is a passive node for both. Alerts for app1 need to go…
6 votes -
Add the ability to optionally fire a data gathering query if an alert fires
For example, https://sqlmonitormetrics.red-gate.com/suspiciouserrors/ (Detect Suspicious Errors Typical of a SQL Injection Attack)...
If suspicious activity crosses a threshold, it throws an alert. Great. Now what? I have an alert but no data to investigate without opening SSMS (or tool of choice) and running a query like this (I’m sure there are better ways but this works for an example)
SELECT CAST(targetdata asxml) AS targetdata
INTO #SuspiciousErrors
FROM sys.dmxesessiontargets xet
JOIN sys.dmxesessions xes ON xes.address=xet.eventsessionaddress
WHERE xes.name='MonitorSuspiciousErrors'
AND xet.targetname ='ringbuffer';SELECT
dateadd(mi,datediff(mi,getutcdate(),getdate()),xed.eventdata.value('(@timestamp)[1]','datetime2'))AS EventTime
, xed.eventdata.value('(data[@name="errornumber"]/value)[1]','int')AS ErrorNum
, xed.event…2 votes -
track blocking processes date/time by start time, not login time
in blocking tree, it shows old date/times for queries that are running. We found that it is using the login time of the spids (which could be held and sleeping for extended amount of time) instead of the start time of the executing process of that spid.
instead of using the login time, I recommend it uses the start time of the last execution of the query found in sys.dmexecrequest1 vote -
Shorten the focus window from 15mins to 1min
I want to be able to apply a shorter timescale to the focus window, 15mins is far too long on a very busy system.
I would like to be able to put a start / end date/time instead of selecting a time and then x hours before that
4 votes -
Suppress Specific Alerts
There are some alerts that get triggered at odd hours and I would like to be able to suppress just those specific alerts for a certain time frame. I'm afraid to suppress ALL alerts because something could get missed.
1 vote -
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