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  1. Make software FIPS 140-2 compliant

    Currently SQL Monitor is not FIPS 140-2 compliant

    5 votes
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  2. 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.

    6 votes
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  3. 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_SessionLock

    However 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 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks 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

  4. 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 votes
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    Daniel Rothig responded

    Thanks for the suggestion – we’ll monitor how popular it gets

  5. 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

    9 votes
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  6. 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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  7. Add the ability to create new alerts

    Instead of limiting the available alerts to a pre-defined list, allow users to create new alerts and threshold metrics based on customized queries. In my opinion, this is about the only glaring omission in the current version of sql Monitor.

    13 votes
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  8. know who ran SQL Compare and what changed

    within SQL Monitor when it flags that SQL Compare ran, it would be good to be able to see who ran the job and what was changed. Currently the job is flagged in SQL Monitor but there seems to be no further details other than what database it ran on.

    3 votes
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  9. Testing the Availability Group listener(s)

    If an Availability Group listener is not working for any reason (like no DNS resolution), but the ressource is still up in the cluster, SQL Monitor will not raise any alert.

    Could you add a specific test for SQL monitor to test the connection using the availability group listener(s) and raise an alert if not successful?

    7 votes
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  10. Add custom metrics to Overview(s)

    Add the ability to choose what is displayed on the overview for a given server/instance - especially with the addition of custom metrics.

    Even better would be to allow the addition of multiple overviews (aka Dashboards) and configure what each one displays.

    25 votes
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    Daniel Rothig responded

    We like that idea – if it gains traction, we’ll prioritise it more

  11. Trend Analysis and Forecasting for Azure SQL Database capacity

    A previous feature suggestion, https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11122308-forecast-and-plan-disk-database-capacity, was completed in 2018. However, it does not include storage for Azure SQL Databases or Elastic Pools. While we can alert on this, we get no trend analysis or forecasting.

    Selecting All Disks and All Groups on the Estate | Disk usage page gets us "No disks match your filter criteria."

    2 votes
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  12. Utilize SQL (or SQL-like) statements in filters.

    Utilize SQL (or SQL-like) statements in the filters, specifically on the Overview tab to filter on server name. For example: '%sql%' AND '%prod%'
    Currently you can only do 1 fuzzy logic search. Also, you cannot search just by one character.

    24 votes
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  13. Show the database name not just dbid in the Lock Details of a Deadlock alert

    I've got to do the extra step of:

    SELECT name,dbid
    FROM master..sysdatabases

    to figure out which database the deadlock is referring to... shouldn't have to do this.

    71 votes
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    Database name is now shown for 2005+ deadlock alerts following the v4 release.

    Thanks again for the suggestion and votes.

  14. Add User Settings feature

    Add a User Settings feature that will hold all user preferences, as different DBAs / users have different ways in using SQL Monitor. For example - (1) ability to display on the Overviews page only desired health levels (Critical, Warning, etc), or named group, or base monitor, or any combination, rather than load all servers from all groups from all base monitors. I really don't want to know that I have 265 healthy out of 275 servers - this will speed up loading of the Overviews page. (2) any other user preference.

    4 votes
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  15. be able to extract all alerts at once rather than extracting for individual alerts via API

    Redgate Monitor API currently allows users to extract alert details for individual alert types. We need an API endpoint that can extract alert details for all alert types instead of calling the API multiple times.

    10 votes
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  16. Don't check Agent status for Express Edition

    Whenever I add a server to the monitoring that is Express Edition, I get alerted that the SQL Agent service is not running.
    Well d'uh. It's Express Edition. The Agent service cannot run on it.

    Instead of always giving me this alert and then having me go in and disable it for yet another server, why not change the logic to not raise this alert at all when the edition is detected as Express?

    3 votes
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  17. Filter Longest Running Queries Tile by Database

    The Longest Running Queries Tile on the Reports screen would be more useful if we could target only one database.

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  18. date format

    I'd like to have an ability to set date format according to the country where the monitored SQL server is in, e.g. USA where date format is MM/dd/yyyy vs UK as dd/MM/yyyy. Also, why not to read and set date format off of the monitored server? Please make it configurable and country compliant so to speak..

    Thanks,
    Yuriy

    4 votes
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  19. Should have feedback on missing index, its great know that I have a slow running query but some possible hints on how to improve them.

    Should have feedback on missing index, its great know that I have a slow running query but some possible hints on how to improve them,
    the infomation is avalible in SQLServer version 2005 onward in the following DMV
    sys.dmdbmissingindexdetails
    sys.dmdbmissingindexgroupstats

    sys.dm    dbmissingindexgroups
    sys.dm    dbmissingindex_columns

    So I still have to go off and check.
    Overtime as database grow in size and data distribution of the tables changes therefore indexing requirements change, so unless you monitor these DMV's you may not notice that an index may be…

    34 votes
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    declined  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    The missing indexes DMVs are not an exact science, so we’ve decided against presenting sometimes-helpful, sometimes-disasterous tuning advice in SQL Monitor.

    However I’m confident that SQL Server itself will continue to evolve as a tuning platform, leaving SQL Monitor free to look at the bigger picture.

  20. Preserve license after the upgrade

    During an in-place upgrade of Redgate Monitor, the license is lost. This poses a significant challenge for offline environments where internet access is restricted. As a result, Redgate Monitor ceases monitoring after the upgrade until a new permit file is generated and uploaded, leading to gaps in monitoring history.
    This issue could be mitigated if Redgate allowed a short grace period of trial or honored the previous license during the transition.

    6 votes
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