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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.
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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.
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Simpler Upgrade \ Patch Process
The upgrade process is a bit long winded. It would be great if the system could be upgraded or patch with a single click. Ideally within SQL Monitor but if not, downloading the file and just selecting upgrade would be great.
83 votes
Daniel Rothig
responded
Thanks Phil – we are considering reworking the upgrade process. If this suggestions gains more traction, we’ll prioritise it higher
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With the AG Groups it would be good to have soft alerting on configurations
With the AG it is possible to have different configuration on the server replicas. We mostly get caught out with Logins. but have had issues with XMLBlob size, linked servers and Server Master Keys.
It would be good for monitor to alert (or be able to alert) if a Login does not exist on both (all) replicas. we have times when a quick addition through SSMS does not put the same login on all side. when fail over occurs we then have broken processing. It would be good for sids to be checked as well as this is another…
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network adapter name on overview page
Currently network adapters' interface description is shown on the overview page of a monitored server. i am not interested of that information really, I would see the net adapter name as Get-NetAdapter cmdlet returns. So, Name should be there instead of the description.
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Identifiy the failed job steps when a job has failed
CONTEXT: When looking at a job failed alert, we would like to pinpoint why it has failed.
PROBLEM: SQL Monitor doesn't indentify the failed steps - we have to go to SSIS to get that information.
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
• Add this information to the "Job failed" alert
• Provide a query to make retrieving this data more convenient136 votesThanks for this suggestion. Failed job steps are now listed in failed job alerts – this feature was completed in Version 7.1.6, released October 4th 2017 (apologies for not updating sooner).
We have marked this as completed – please let us know if you believe this needs to be reopened, or add a new suggestion if you would like to see a particular improvement.
Thanks,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
MONITORING ERROR (SQL SERVER DATA COLLECTION) more infromation
Is it possible to list the items that failed in the alert?
In the description for this alert it notes that one or more of the following connection methods failed:
WMI
Remote registry (PerfMon and registry access)
Remote file access is not set up (hidden administrative shares should be enabled)
SQL connectivityIs it possible to note in the alert details which one failed? It would make troubleshooting after the fact a bit easier.
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Disk Names in Overviews and Analysis
Disk Names in Overviews and Analysis
Hello,
I think that it will be usefull to have a same disk names in Overviews and Analysis as they are shown in the system in Disk Management.ServerData (F:)
ServerLogs (G:)
Server_System (H:)Not only F: G: H: as they are visible now in SQL Monitor.
Thank you.15 votesThis has been implemented in SQL Monitor 4.2
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use alternate IP addresses for named instances
I am modifying my named instances to use separate IP addresses. This allows me to use CNAMES for each databases, We are then able to move the databases around to another instance without the customers having to modify their connection strings.We are also able to use port 1433 for all existences. SQL monitor tries to connect to the instance using the servername\SQLINSTANCE, which no longer works remotely suite to each instance having it's own IP Address using and alternate A-RECORD name.
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Cluster Roles that have been renamed should no longer have an entry with the old name
Over the last year and a half I have migrated several SQL FCI's to new windows clusters, new hardware, windows and SQL versions. To accomplish this with minimal downtime I had to setup the cluster roles ahead of time with everything ready to go prior to doing a final tlog backup/restore and rename of the cluster instances. This has worked well for us however SQL Monitor creates a new server record when the instance is renamed and never gets rid of the original name of the the new instance. This has left me with SQL Monitor still showing this nonexistent…
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Alerts should configurable to repeat until an issue is resolved
We'd like the option for alerts to repeat until an issue is resolved. For instance, we may have a custom alert to tell us when a DBCC CheckDB hasn't been performed in >24hrs. For that we'd perform the check once per day and expect to get an alert every day that the problem continues. Without the alert recurring it's very easy for it to slip through the cracks and get missed.
Another example is blocking. We have some databases where we monitor blocking via SQL Agent and when a block occurrs for 1m or more, we send emails every 30s…
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Remove node from sql monitor for sql clusters
If i have a SQL cluster that has a non SQL witness I would like to just remove it so it does not get pulled into the warning system or the dashboard.. i in my case am using a NAS machine as a witness to the cluster.
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Add mirroring monitoring
I may be wrong but I can't see that you have the capability for mirroring monitoring in the tool. This would make a more persuasive case for replacing Idera if this tool was included.
38 votesHello,
We are excited to announce that mirroring metrics from Grant Fritchey are now available to install. Please install it from http://sqlmonitormetrics.red-gate.com/tag/mirroring/. These metrics are also described in detail in Grant Fritchey’s article on Simple Talk https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/sql-tools/custom-metrics-for-monitoring-database-mirroring/.
Thanks,
SQL Monitor development team -
Add alias with powershell module
We install our sql server automatically via powershell, so we also add them there to the monitoring. We would like to safe us work, by giving the server a custom alias while adding to the monitoring as it can be done through the website.
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Deal better with extremely spikey data
CONTEXT: Some counters displayed by SQL Monitor is extremely spiky. SQL Monitor scales its graph such that the any spike fits on the y axis
PROBLEM: If there is one extreme spike, all the other data gets scaled such that it's very close to the x-axis, making any patterns in the data hard to see.
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
• allow to manually zoom into the y axis
• allow extreme spikes to be beyod the drawing area of the graph (still with some indicator of how high the spike is)
• have an option to show the graph on a logarhithmic…136 votes -
Monitor individual CPU cores and not just avg CPU as a whole
AVG CPU is not enough of an indication of how things are going - There could be an entire numa node maxed at 100% while other nodes are almost idle and it will drag the avg down.
As per here: https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/162141#Comment_162141
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set the default email recipient per level
I'd like to be able to override the default email recipient "per level", in the same way alerts can be configured.
This would make it much easier to manage in a case where monitoring responsibilities are delegated for a specific server or group of servers.
16 votes -
Select Database
Select Database
When Selected Instance And Add For Monitoring . I can not Selected/Unselected Database For Monitoring.
If possible, add this feature.5 votes -
Suppress performance-related alerts during maintenance periods
CONTEXT: I expect my system to slow down during routine maintenance tasks, which often leads to false postitives for performance-related alerts (long-running queries, High CPU...) in SQL Monitor.
PROBLEM: While I could configure a maintenance window where alerts don't get raised, this would also suppress operational alerts (e.g. Machine unreachable, Job failed) - these are still relevant while maintenance is in progress
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
• Allow to configure maintenance times for individual alerts
• Change maintenance window behaviour so that operational alerts are still active during maintenanceWhat do you think about these solutions? Got another idea? Let us…
233 votesThanks 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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It would be a great feature to have SQL Monitor suggest efficiency recommendations. The way that vperformance tuning settings based on acon
It would be a great feature to have SQL Monitor suggest efficiency recommendations the way that vRealize Ops Manager does, which is basically a tool you point at the environment and it shows you efficiency recommendations. Rather than having to perform time consuming manual analysis.
1 vote
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