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Welcome to the Redgate Monitor feature suggestions list. Tell us how we can improve Redgate Monitor by voting on these suggestions or by submitting your own ideas.
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I only have one SQL Server, take me to the instance Overview instead of global dashboard
I only have one SQL Server instance, instead of seeing one small bit of info and having to click that in the new global dashboard, take me directly into the instance so I can get relevant info on first login/site visit. Think about your design when we just have one server.
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Login to SQL Monitor using a CAC
For members of the military or contractors, they login to systems using Common Access Cards (CACs). It would be great to allow users that are authorize to login to SQL Monitor, to be able to log in with just using their CAC and pin number.
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Pie chart in SQL versions estate page to have CU patch status rather than SQL server version
Pie chart in SQL versions estate page to have CU patch status rather than SQL server version
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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.
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Exclude databases with state = 1 (RESTORING) in page verification alert
During a restore the page verification alert gets triggered, even when the database has CHECKSUM page verification. Please exclude database with state = 1 (RESTORING) in this alert! Thanks!
6 votesThanks for this suggestion.
Version 9.0.4 has now been released and the Page Verification Alert will no longer alert when a database is being restored.
We hope this works as you expected and will mark this as complete, but please do let us know if you have any further comments.
Kind regards,
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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 -
Allow custom DML script deployments to show on SQL Monitor (like SQL Compare)
Write now, when you deploy with SQL Compare it puts this wonderful little tick mark in SQL Monitor to show the deployment location and time. We would like the ability to do this with SQL Multi Script or even manually via manual deployments.
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Simplify alerts without mentioning product names like PostgreSQL
Few alerts in Redgate Monitor ends with "(SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)".
We don't use PostgreSQL and don't plan to do it. Would be nice to turn off that feature permanently so that, for example message like “Database unavailable (SQL Server and PostgreSQL only)” shown as “Database unavailable”2 votes -
REDGATE Monitor 5.1.2.3497 e-mail alert body should give detail with deadlock victim spid and query
REDGATE Monitor 5.1.2.3497 e-mail alert body should give detail with deadlock victim spid and query
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be able to show basic SSIS monitoring graphs/sparklines on the overview page (Buffers spooled, Buffers in memory, rows read,...).
There is currently no SSIS monitoring in SQL Monitor. You can add custom metrics for performance counters available through SSISDB but these can only be seen on the Analysis page and only after you have selected all of them.
It would be nice to be able to select SSIS as an option for a server and then see these counters as graphs/sparklines on the overview page.
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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.
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Geeting listener name in AG info
Would it be possible to get the SQL Server AlwaysOn AG listener name in the SQL Monitor dashboard?
3 votesThis is available from version 12.1.16.
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Have filter on failed SQL Server logins alert
I would like to edit the Failed SQL Server logins alert to exclude failed logins from a value like a host/IP address. We have our security guys trying to break in our SQL servers daily and it trips the failed SQL Server logins alert all the time and over alerts us.
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Add an alert to monitor failed logins.
The sql logs show failed logins, could we have an alert for this?
15 votesHello,
We are happy to announce that ‘Failed SQL Server logins’ metric is now available. Please install it from http://sqlmonitormetrics.red-gate.com/failed-sql-server-logins/
Thanks,
SQL Monitor development team -
Monitor entity framework queries
as the query generated by entity framework are different, we need a way to monito the queries and group them in a similar bucket
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Displaying the actual names of the disks and not just the Volume Number for the Disk space alert
In SQL Monitor when you are using the disk space alert in conjunction with multiple volumes on different mountpoints SQL Monitor tends to display just the HardDisk Volume number in the alert, this is extremely unhelpful as it means you have to log on to the physical server, launch diskmgmt.msc and match the disk thats alerting to take any action. Is it possible to just display the mount point name as opposed to the Disk Volume Number? This would be extremely helpful and would give a wealth of information instantly.
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Alternate color background on dashboard server groups
Could you add some alternating color background to different server groups on the overview dashboard so the swimlanes are much easier to distinguish
1 vote -
..retry operations that fail during install/ initial connection to server. Such as at my server where DBCC TRACEON (1204,-1) failed. In that
..retry operations that fail during install/ initial connection to server. Such as at my server where DBCC TRACEON (1204,-1) failed. In that case, retrying would be good, to ensure that it is eventually turned on.
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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…3 votes -
Email queuing
Basically, I would like email to queue up in SQL Monitor. In the event an email fails to send (account locked out, mail server down, etc), having the email just fail to send is not the desired result. When problems are resolved, the email should send.
For example, lets say IT is doing scheduled maintenance on the email server and during that window one of the SQL instances shuts itself down due to an error (for arguments sake, lets say out of disk). SQL Monitor will see it go offline and try to send out the alert but fail…7 votes
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