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  1. Customized Alerts

    Hi,

    Can we get a report which shows top 10 databases by growth over a certain period of time, across all the monitored SQL instances?

    There should be one graph which shows top 10 databases by growth, gathering data from all the databases scattered across multiple SQL instances, rather than multiple graphs showing top 10 databases by growth.

    It would be nice to have so that we can determine what databases do we need to focus on.

    Thanks,
    Hammad

    2 votes
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  2. Support 3rd party HA tools such as DxEnterprise

    3rd party HA tools such as DxEnterprise allow for failover of a virtual host (VHOST) from one Server (virtual or physical) to another in the event something happens to the VHOST. In the failover process, it will pull all of the associated disks along with the VHOST to the new machine it is going to be hosted on. If RedGate SQL Monitor is configured to monitor the physical server, things work well until you need to fail over. Then you get alerts of disk changing from 20% free to 0 bytes free and the failed-over SQL instance(s) are no…

    3 votes
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  3. Add 2017 CU14 to Estate view

    Currently SQL Monitor shows the latest SQL Server 2017 version to be CU13 yet the latest is CU14. This should show the latest version.

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  4. DatabaseName custom message parameter addition for Custom Webhook messages

    I would like to share with the developers the alerts for the different databases we have in the same server instance. I noticed for custom webhook messages. It looks like the option was there (like monitoredEntity.azureSqlDatabaseName).

    One of the SQL instances we have is a shared instance with multiple databases so the owner of the database can know exactly what database is failing

    Right now I have the following custom message

    {

    "text": "{{alert-severity}}: An alert of type \"{{alert-name}}\" has been \"{{alert-status}}\" for {{alert-target-name}}.\r\nVisit {{alert-url}} for details."

    }

    Where I cannot specify which database is that alert for. I…

    4 votes
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  5. On the Overview screen, collapse AlwaysOn clusters into a single tile

    I have quite a few AlwaysOn groups, with 3 servers as part of the group. SQL Monitor very cleverly takes the cluster name and adds all 3 servers to the monitoring list ... HOWEVER, on the Overview screen, they show as individual servers. It would be good if I could collapse that all down into one tile that shows an overall health of the group. I realize this is a different situation from an FCI because there can be multiple 'active' nodes, but it would be good if SQL Monitor understood that I added an AG…

    6 votes
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  6. Exclude tempdb/ReportServerTempDB from Alerts at a GLOBAL level, WITH EASE

    It makes no sense for there to be Alert configuration settings for tempdb for Consistency Checks, Backups, and any other irrelevance.

    If the ONLY reason for the existence of SSRS databases is because of Microsoft's idiotic requirement for SSRS to actually be configured in 2014 before permitting an in-place upgrade to 2016, there is no ACTUAL reason why one would care two hoots about the state of either SSRS DB on ANY instance affected by this "demand". OK, I have just 21 instances to drill down to SHUT UP ABOUT SSRS DATABASES!

    Please provide a better way to manage…

    5 votes
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  7. Add AND/OR conditions for disk alerts

    We are using SQL Monitor to monitor disks and we also send these disk alerts to our NOC(24/7 monitor team) and when they receives an alert they are calling us on our On-Call service when outside office hours.

    The alerts are not always relevant as the alert can be like for example:
    Disk free space less than 5 % but actual space left is 300 GB, which is more than enough and no alert and phone call had to be triggered.

    We are trying to set custom disk alerts but as we have 1000+ disk alerts to configure it’s impossible…

    44 votes
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  8. Triage and configure repeating alerts more efficiently

    CONTEXT: Some alert types such as Long-running queries, Job Failure or Error Log Entries can trigger very frequently under certain circumstances.

    PROBLEM: This causes a large number of alert emails to be sent, and the only way to ascetain that all these alerts are the same is to view the details screen for all of them.

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS
    • Group similar alerts in the alert inbox
    • Raise alerts not on individual events, but on these events happening a specified number of times
    • Mention identifying information sooner: e.g. directly in the alert inbox
    • Suppress query-based alerts for specific …

    462 votes
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  9. Extend field width of Server Selector field on top of Dashboard to be the same width as the Drop Down

    Go to Dashboard; Overview tab; drill down to one of the servers. On top of this next form (Server Host Metrics form) is the Server Selector field with a Drop Down list box. When you select the down arrow key to open the List Box the width of the List box is about twice the width of the Server Selector field. Is it possible to make the width of the Selector field the same as the drop down or make it user defined/variable? Right now it's around 27 chars. We have long server aliases/names so if extended, it…

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  10. Job step failure - trigger an alert, even if the job itself doesn't fail

    CONTEXT: If job step "On failure action" is set to "Go to next step" or "Go to step xy...." and the step fails, we would like to be alerted. The alert should be triggered immediately (as opposed to at the end of the job).

    PROBLEM: SQL Monitor "Job failed" alert doesn't alert in such cases.

    EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
    • A new alert.
    • Expanding options on the "Job failed" alert.

    53 votes
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    completed  ·  Carlos Eriksson responded

    As of version 13.0.55 (February 27, 2024).


    Job failing alerts can now be raised when any individual job step fails, even if the overall job succeeds.

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  12. Backup overdue alert - RegEx filter

    I have many non-production databases on production SQL Instance, that make no sense to backup. I know I can turn this alert off one by one on each database. RegEx filter by database name would be help.

    12 votes
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  13. Use extended events for deadlock "tracing" instead of a trace flag

    If the SQL Server version is high enough, using extended events to capture deadlock information would be preferred to using a trace flag.

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  14. We would like to send slack messages to different channels depending on the server.

    We have multiple teams who are ultimately interested in what is wrong with their platform, The posting to a single slack channel is good, however giving an option to send only messages from certain servers to specific channels would improve our customer engagement. currently the main channel is ignored by the all teams except the dba's as the chaff from other servers can cause disinterest, or interest when no reason for a team to investigate.

    9 votes
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  15. Suspend Monitoring of Individual Cluster Nodes

    Alert suppression windows can be applied to groups, clusters, instances, and machines - including individual cluster nodes. Howerer it seems it is only possible to suspend monitoring for instnaces or clusters not individual nodes,

    We recently had a hardware fault and it would have been helpful to suspned monitoring of a specific node whislt the engineer resolved the fault.

    6 votes
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  16. Set Maintenance Window by Group

    We do maintenance by class of server (DEV, QA PRD) and update an entire group during one maintenance window. It would be nice to be able to select a group like "Production" and set one maintenance window instead of setting it for each server. And since we do maintenance on the second Sunday for one group and the third Sunday for another we can't set a window and forget it. We have to set it before the weekend there will be work done and then clear it on the following Monday. More scheduling flexibility would be a wonderful addition.

    4 votes
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  17. "Installed Versions" tab needs to be aware of GDR updates

    Only Service Packs and Cumulative Updates are currently included in the version list maintained by Redgate, which drives the "Installed Versions" tab. GDR updates are not included.

    In my estate, this has resulted in SQL Server 2012 SP4 installations showing as being fully up to date, when there is a GDR update from January available, to address Meltdown/Spectre.

    Microsoft's official line on GDR updates for SQL Server is:

    "A GDR addresses an issue that has a broad customer impact, that has security implications, or that has both. A GDR is determined and issued by Microsoft as appropriate and when appropriate.…

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  18. Add scheduling for monitoring suspension and resumption

    Using Azure SQL Database in serverless mode with an auto-pause is a useful feature to save money when the db is not in use. SQL Monitor keeps the db from sleeping overnight.

    Suggest addition of scheduling for Suspend/Resume operations, similar to alert suppression scheduling.

    3 votes
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  19. Show current data sizes on purging page

    On the data purging page would it be possible to show for each of the data categories how much space each one is currently occupying.

    Possibly even an 'oldest date' too? As this may be pertinent if the purge thresholds haven't yet been met.

    On some environments I want to keep as much SQL Monitor data as possible and if it's a healthy server you may have very little alert data, and so want to keep more history than you do say, machine data.

    It would also help in cases where the Repository database is growing, and you're not sure…

    7 votes
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  20. Apply filters to more SQL Server alerts

    In configuring Long Running Query, I'm able to specify a filter on the process name (e.g. wanted to exclude my "Barracuda" backup processes - and did so successfully). I'd like to do the same for other Alerts such as Deadlocks and Blocking Processes.

    5 votes
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