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  1. 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."

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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.

  9. 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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  10. Support for showing multiple metrics with the same units on Analysis Graph

    When showing more than one metric on a graph on the Analysis page, I fully understand that it is difficult to merge the units scales on the x axis. So what you get is each graph has it's 'own' x axis - and I get that - it makes sense when the units are incompatible (eg. percentage vs KB used vs batch/sec).

    But when all the metrics are measure in the same units, it can create a visually confusing graph.

    For example I'm looking at memory usage over time, so I've chosen Machine: memory used, SQL Server: total memory,…

    29 votes
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  11. Support Individual query monitoring in Azure SQL Database

    This sounds like a useful feature. I wish it was available for my environment.

    7 votes
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  12. Have a standard metric for Data space used

    There is currently an out of the box metric or Log Space Used, but there isn't an equivalent Data Space Used.

    I get that it's a bit trickier if you have multiple data files, (even just adding them up as one metric). We have databases that we want to pro-actively allocate space for but it's hard to do without a metric to tell us when it's getting full.

    8 votes
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  13. Capture cursor SQL for long running queries

    It would be great if SQL Monitor would capture the SQL statement being executed for long-running cursors. Currently it shows "FETCH CURSORNAME001"

    Cursor SQL can be found with this query when the cursor is still open:
    SELECT c.sessionid,
    c.cursor    id,
    c.properties,
    c.creationtime,
    c.is    open,
    c.fetchstatus,
    c.dormant    duration,
    s.logintime,
    t.text
    FROM sys.dm    execcursors (0) c
    JOIN sys.dm    execsessions s
    ON c.session    id = s.sessionid
    CROSS APPLY sys.dm    execsqltext(c.sql_handle) t

    14 votes
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  14. Configure Alert-Ended messages at alert type level

    in the global settings I can configure, that I want to receive deescalation mails when an alert ended (e.g. CPU went back to normal, Server available again ...).

    For many alerts this makes sense, but for other alerts not so much or not for everybody (e.g. deadlock alerts, the custom failed-logins alert, job-failed alerts...).

    So it would be nice, if I could configure this (as most other options) at least at alert type level or better down on group / server / database etc.

    6 votes
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  15. Few suggestions:

    • Display the Job Name (character string) instead of hexadecimal value (SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job 0x442BC6B49DA6FC41A98697F8C2F68956 : Step 1)
    • In alerts configuration: Be able to exclude Long-Running query alerts (or any type of alert) for a specific time frame. For example: between 11:00PM and 5:00AM
    • When selecting an alert details view, create a link to be able to come back to previous alerts summary screen instead of selecting Overviews link and then again narrowing down to alerts summary by server let’s say…

    80 votes
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    declined  ·  Daniel Rothig responded

    Hi, because these are multiple suggestions and it’s not clear who has voted on what, I am going to have to close this suggestion.

    If you are interested in the Job Name request, please open a new suggestion for this

    If you are interested in the Time frame suggestion, please vote on: http://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11122008-suppress-performance-related-alerts-during-mainten

    If you are interested in returning to the Alert Inbox from the details view, this has been implemented in SQL Monitor 3.3

  16. suppress emails during maintenance window

    Allow the ability to suppress all alert emails during a maintenance window. Right now we have ~65 SQL servers and during windows when the OS team is patching and rebooting the servers we can receive 100's of emails as the servers go up and down. It would be great if we could set a schedule or at the very least a single use window when emails don't get sent.

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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

  17. Environment specific Reports

    As we have option to create different reports on SQL Monitor, We would like to have the option to create the reports as per environment (Dev,UAT,Prod) for Disk Space,Server Downtime etc. It will be more feasible if we can get a filter to create reports for the specific environment.

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  18. Suppress Notifications until turned back on

    There are times where we are configuring and testing an instance or cluster and want to monitor it, but would like to prevent notifications being fired while keeping alerts - having the ability to suppress the notifications until we turn it back on would be handy and take less administration overhead than configuring the alerts for each instance/cluster

    14 votes
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  19. Export/Import Report configurations

    I'm using RedGate SQL server with different clients. Since the environments are not connected I have to manually create Report configurations for each client which takes quite some time. Also, any change to the Report configurations has to be then deployed by cilcking. Some export to XML or something similar and import wia PowerShell API would be nice.

    23 votes
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  20. Define limit of the specific job alert.

    problem : a job is running in every 2 mins and failed due to any reason .it will fire multiple alert ,I would like to restrict the limit of the specific failure

    solution :as we work in the shifts , I want it should not come more then 3 time which is in 8-9 hours duration .when I am setting the limit then it will impact to all server not the specific one . whereas I would like to check this monitor based on the time and then fire the alert

    3 votes
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