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  1. 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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  2. 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.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Geeting listener name in AG info

    Would it be possible to get the SQL Server AlwaysOn AG listener name in the SQL Monitor dashboard?

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  7. 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

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  8. Add an alert to monitor failed logins.

    The sql logs show failed logins, could we have an alert for this?

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  9. 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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  10. Dashboard Metrics for MTTR & MTBF

    Can we have a dashboard and report module for MTTR and MTBF for all databases(daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly) on Redgate Monitor?

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  11. Support Monitor Ubuntu with another port ( not port default 22)

    Dear Development Team,
    Currently, I'm using SQL Server running on Ubuntu ( with SSH port 5678). I can't connect to OS Linux via SSH port 5678. I don't see where to input the port (not the default port). I want the Team to enhance the feature allow to the input SSH port.

    I have created an issue to discuss here (https://productsupport.red-gate.com/hc/en-us/requests/305026)
    Thanks,
    Khoa.Nguyen

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  12. ..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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  13. 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…

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  14. 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…

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  15. Custom metric: alert when value changed

    I want to be alerted if someone creates or deletes a database. The metric itself is easy (select count(*) from sys.databases - executed for the master DB on all servers).

    But in the alert setting I can only define that it should trigger if the new result is abover or below a set value but not for value changed (compared eigther to the previous value or the "baseline").

    So I have to create two metrics / alerts for DB drop (below) and create (above) AND have to define / modify the number of databases as alert threshold for…

    19 votes
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  16. Disk Space / tempdb / Custom Alerts

    Hi,
    I have couple of suggestions as per my present system architecture ...
    1) For disk space alerts, user should be able to configure this alert for as many disk/drives as user wants out of the total disks/drives are available on the server. If needed, user should also be able to ignore a particular drive. Right now, SQL monitor checks for all the disks/drives on the server
    2) For database level alerts, there should be a exclusive alert for tempdb space
    3) In custom alerts, SQL Monitor should be able to display a resultset of a SQL query and…

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    declined  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    Closing as this is multiple ideas – please raise a separate suggestion for each

  17. Make "Source" hyperlink in Alert take you to the specific date time on the Server Overview Page

    If I click on the "Source" Hyperlink in alert, this opens the server overview page for the relevant server, however, the displayed time frame is the default (24 hour period ending at the current time)

    It would be helpful if the server overview page opened at the date / time of the alert as it is highly likely after clicking the hyperlink, that you are going to want to view the point in time of the alert

    3 votes
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    under review  ·  Neil Turner responded

    We're currently reviewing this suggestion as part of general usability improvements.

  18. Trigger a device check-in via powershell

    We use powershell scripts to shut down and start SQL services before and after maintenance. The scripts create a suppression window before and after as well. However, if the suppression window is removed too soon after the services are up, alerts are still fired because SQL Monitor thinks the server is still down. We workaround this by adding a delay in the scripts, but it's annoying to sit and wait for it. I'd like to be able to force SQL Monitor to check in with the server before removing the alert suppression window.

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  19. For SQL Permission currently there is only permission for users in the server level displayed . Can the permission level in the database

    For SQL Permission currently there is only permission for users in the server level displayed . Can the permission level in the database level be able to display

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  20. be able to schedule monitoring suspend or maintenance on instance level

    We have a cluster with two instances. The databases on these instances are restored on different times during the day.
    I want to be able to schedule suspend of monitoring during these different time periods so that one instance is suspended and the other is not. Or put them in maintenance mode on the instance , not on host machine level.

    12 votes
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    completed  ·  Neil Turner responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. SQL Monitor 10 now allows teams to suppress alerts, or just their notifications, over certain periods using alert suppression windows. Please see What’s New in SQL Monitor 10 for more details (https://www.red-gate.com/hub/product-learning/sql-monitor/whats-new-in-sql-monitor-10).

    We hope this meets requirements and will mark it as completed. Please raise further suggestions for any improvements you would like to see.

    Thanks,

    SQL Monitor product team

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