Suggestions
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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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
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Support for regular expressions
Most of the alarms need more granular support for excluding/including different things. Using regular expression is a good idea and should be extended further. For example you defenitly need to be able to filter out things from the alarm on the sql server errorlog. Without it's useless.
74 votesThanks for this suggestion, and for the supporting comments.
Several alerts now allow you to enter regular expressions to match text you want to ignore, to stop alerts being raised in certain situations.
For example:
- Deadlock (XE) alerts can be filtered by database, login name & resource (added in version 8.0.22 released November 13th 2018)
- Blocking Process alert can be filtered to exclude queries with a SQL process names, SQL commands or objects match regular expressions
- Job Duration Unusual alerts can exclude jobs matching regular expressions
- Long Running Query alerts can be filtered to exclude queries with a SQL process names, SQL commands or objects match regular expressionsWe will mark this suggestion as completed, so that the votes can be returned while we continue to look at ways to make alerting more useful. Please make new suggestions for specific improvements you would like to see,…
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Who ran the query and what time
I would like to see in sql monitor who was the person that ran the query and what time the query was run.
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documentation
Add Server documentation such as:
- app owners,
- support type (24/7, next business day),
- escalation contacts (clients to contact for unscheduled maintenances),
- primary purpose (main application using the server, business function)
- Add costum fields for server notes or setup instructions
6 votes -
Alert "regarding "instance alerts" - Cluster failover - for Postgres"
for Alert "regarding "instance alerts" - Cluster failover - for Postgres", would like to have it available on the individual server level and not just the monitoring group. That way we can customize our notification accordingly.
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Export the analysis graphs to PDF and add printing support.
I would like to be able to print nice well formatted reports from SQL Monitor so that it can be shown to Management. I guess exporting to PDF could accomplish that.
13 votesPlease use our CSV export instead – Tools like Excel will help you visualise your results in a variety of ways
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suspend
Hi,
I think it's very important to show Suspended status of a monitored host/instance should be shown in dashboard.
I had suspended monitoring on an instance and forgot to resume so I've missed monitoring for a while.
I suggest to show the state of monitoring (Active or Suspended) maybe graphically/iconic, in the dashboard and Server overview pages10 votes -
Filter Top 10 queries/waits by database
I would like to see the top 10 queries by database sometimes instead of the entire instance.
33 votes -
alert when database was created / dropped
It would be nice to have a build in alert when someone (e.g. a vendor) created or dropped a database.
Reasons:
- you may want to delete old backup files (if dropped) or have to modify / delete some maintenances
- you'll make a manual full backup of the new DB so that log-backups could be taken by your backup solution
- maybe you have to add the new DB to monitoring (as DLM Dashboard), backups (and have to consinder its the disk space at the backup drive) or an Excel-Sheet with a list of your databases :-)Real-Live-Example:…
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Analysis Thresholds
One of the things I like about the free PAL tool, is that you can specify thresholds for each performance counter. Therefore, you can have a customizable red line which appears on your graph to easily tell you if your disk latencies are over 25ms or your free memory is less than 5% - for example.
I would like to see something similar on the Analysis screen on SQL Monitor. I would like to specify for each machine, SQL Server or Custom metric a warning threshold and a critical threshold. This makes it easier to troubleshoot performance issues as…11 votes -
Show a log of query activity
CONTEXT: When investigating a performance issue, I want to know what has been running
PROBLEM: SQL Monitor has rich query information on the overview screens, the performance diagnostics panels, and the query alerts, and the query trace in alert detail reports, but it's difficult to tie that information together
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
- Implement a query log
- Show query information on the analysis graph45 votes -
add more custom notifications
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Execute HTTP Action :
This notification method executes a GET request or sends any POST, PUT, or PATCH data to a custom URL. You can execute specific actions on a web server or control any web service that accepts commands via one-time HTTP requests. Whenever a notification of this kind is triggered, the HTTP action is sent. -
Execute Program:
With this notification method, you can execute a script or a program as an external process. It can be a Windows executable file or a BAT, CMD, or PowerShell file. You can use EXE, COM, BAT, CMD, VBS, or PS1 files.
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Jobs in calender formart so you can see when they are all schedualed.
It would be nice if you could see all jobs on the server. Perhaps in a calender format so that you can see when they are schedualed. It would be nice if you could drag and drop so that it changes start times. It would be nice if you could see the job history as well.
86 votes
Daniel Rothig
responded
We like the idea – if this idea gains traction, we’ll look into implementing something like this
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Click to open analysis from alert window
For some alerts, I like to see not only what happened before, but also what happened since. Some examples are disk space, or database file usage. The latter for example has a nice graph of the file usage up to the moment the alert triggered. But when I look at it the next day in the office, I also want to see what happened since - did the file continue to grow, has it been stable since, or was this a peak and is less space used now?
Currently that means going to the Analysis tab, selecting the correct server…4 votes -
Make software FIPS 140-2 compliant
Currently SQL Monitor is not FIPS 140-2 compliant
5 votes -
Enter and assign purchased SQL licenses to VM hosts, VM or server
The new SQL licensing tab would even make it possible to detect unlicensed instances depending on listed availability or improper VM host movement rules.
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Block Specific Deadlocks by Lock Details
We've just updated to SQL Monitor 6. We was hoping there was a feature in this to change alert settings for Deadlocks with specific lock details rather than just all Deadklocks.
For example
we don't want email alerts on: Deadlock 'object: ReportServerTempDB.dbo.SessionLock, lock mode: Exclusive (X), index: IDX_SessionLockHowever we wish to receive emails when: Deadlock 'dbid: 6, object id: 72057594038845440, index id: (9bf78693a4b4)'
However this feature doesn't exist. Would be great to have added to an update in the near future!
42 votesThanks for this suggestion and the comments.
As previously announced, since version 8.0.22 (released November 13th, 2018) Deadlock (XE) alerts can now be filtered by database, login name & resource, and victimless (eg Exchange Event) deadlocks are excluded by default.
We are marking this as complete, but please do let us know if you have any further feedback.
Thanks,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
Integrate with Policy Based Management
It would be really good to integrate with Policy Based Management to raise status alerts in SQL Monitor, that way we could breakout more complex Instance status
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Use extended events instead of trace when trace initialized due to alert
I have seen a related idea https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/5717202-use-extended-events-for-deadlock-tracing-instead
However, I'm expanding this. If the SQL version is high enough the trace of current activity should be using extended events instead of a trace, this would reduce the total impact to the server performance while also expanding the available information.
98 votesDaniel Rothig
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Thanks for the suggestion – we’ll monitor how popular it gets
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Group instances, not servers
For example: when I have a database cluster running multiple instances I would want have the possibility to put one instance in a development group and another instance from that same cluster in a different group. In this way managing alert settings etc on a group level becomes much more convenient.
37 votes
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