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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
12 votes -
Long Running Query Duration for Specific Queries
It would be really useful is this feature came into Live!
We have a number of queries that run on our SQL servers. We are aware these normally run for a long period of time (5-10 minutes) and do not want to exclude these from being alerted to us. Rather than changing the Long Running Query threshold for all the queries within the server we would like to be able to do it for these specific queries that take that little bit longer than others.
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display unlicensed servers in different color
We started with RedGate Monitoring and added all our SQL Servers. As a result we consumed too much licenses. Although there's a warning on the top of the screen for this, the unlicensed servers are reporting 'healthy' which is a little tricky (especially for non-dba it'ers) because you don't know the state.
I like to see the unlicensed servers in a different color ( for example gray) to see a better reliable overview
6 votesUnlicensed servers are now shown as grey on the global dashboard.
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Alarm based on cumulative wait ms/s
The per server overview includes a graph of wait ms/s. I want to be able to set an alarm threshold based on Core Count and wait ms/s - If the server is waiting for more than 30% of total available cycles then raise an alarm
E.g. Server has 24 cores, and therefore 24,000 ms/s of available waits
Wait ms/s = 10,000 - 10,000 / 24,000 = 41.7% - ALARM
Wait ms/s = 2,500 - 2,500 / 24,000 = 10.4% - No alarm5 votes -
Feature for Integration of Redgate Monitor with Share point
Integration with SharePoint to display the dashboard without needing to login
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See how alerts correlate in time
CONTEXT: When investigating an alert, it is useful to see what else has happened at the time. SQL Monitor gives detailed performance and query data with every alert details report, but doesn't show what other alerts have been raised at the time
PROBLEM: Sometimes alerts inform one another. E.g. a Long-running query can be caused by a blocked process, or a deadlock can cause a job failure. Alerts coinciding with the current one potentially help us to determine the root cause
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS:
• List time-correlated alerts when viewing alert details
• See alerts over time on a graph
•…38 votesVersion 6.0 was released on August 30th, 2016 and contained a new Server Overview which shows alerts over time.
I am closing this as there have been no new comments since it was released. If you would like to see specific improvements to this feature, please raise a new suggestion.
Thanks,
SQL Monitor Development Team -
1 vote
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Report Poller Error - turn off the PFUR
There is an administrative event error in windows event log occurring every minute or less. This error is unrelated to report poller and is product feature usage reporting (PFUR) unsuccessfully reporting back to redgate. I have been assured this message is harmless, but I think anything that is happening every minute on the server is bound to have some detrimental effect.
Please add a feature to turn off this usage reporting.
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compare query metrics across instances
I would like to be able to compare query metrics across SQL Server server instances.
We have a number of environments - Dev / QA / UAT / Production
the data generally increases in volume and gets more "real" the further up the chain we go which can mean something that performs well against the "small data" on the dev server can become an issue when it hits UAT which has real volumes of data
It would be useful to be able to compare a query across instances so if we release a feature which comprises of a number of…
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See Transaction Isolation Levels in Blocking Alerts
There are two methods I have been using to understand blocking situations on our servers:
The processes tab in the Blocking Process alert
The blocking processes section in the server overviewI can get a lot of information from both of these methods but I don't seem to be able to get the isolation levels of the blocking or blocked queries which would be helpful in understanding why the blocking situation has occurred.
Prior to using SQL monitor, we used the blocked process report to monitor blocking and these include the isolation levels. Unfortunately, I still have to…
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In SQL Monitor, I want to use a variable description in a custom alert.
Some custom metrics could be about things like a specific disk, job or DB-object. At this moment it's not possible to specify those in a generic Alert.
If besides the metric value a descriptive value was allowed, it would be possible to parse the descriptive value into the Alert.3 votes -
Use a private route for AWS RDS instances to remove the need for a public endpoint to monitor the instance
The current configuration only allows for the specific format my-db-identifier.random-chars.aws-region.rds.amazonaws.com / my-db-identifier.random-chars.rds.aws-region.amazonaws.com.cn. We would like the ability to use any dns name to allow intra-cloud or hybrid cloud scenarios for the ability to use a private/internal route to the RDS instance so that we do not have to use the public route for monitoring.
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Latch Wait Time Explanation
In SQL Monitor 4.0, the explanation refers to sys.dmdboperational_stats which does not actually exist.
Should this be sys.dmdbindexoperationalstats?
4 votes(not actually declined, but we are tracking this separately as a bug)
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Allow trace to be set at the individual alert level and severity
SQL Trace can highly impact the performance of the server. I can't benefit from trace right now as it's set on any alert to launch a trace.
Other monitoring tools, for instance Sql Sentry, allow the individual alert to be configured with settings for trace.
For example: A long running job might benefit from a trace, while a "dbcc checkdb " hasn't been run in a long time should not trigger a trace. This increases storage and server load for no benefit.
Please look into allowing traces to be configured based on the alert AND the severity level…
6 votes -
Change management for all changes made to your application and a report for the manager to review this change
Change management for all configuration change made in SQL Monitor and a report for the manager to review this change
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Drop markers on the graphs and add annotations
While working on performance tweaks it is customary to consult the analysis reports on a regular basis to see if our changes moved the needle. More often than not the tweaks are released one small batch at a time and it'd be nice to drop markers and custom annotations directly on the charts. I'd like to use that feature to add short phrases describing what was changed that led to the improvement, or degradation for that matter, of performance.
This would be by server (cluster/node) and by metric with the same retention period as the base data for that chart.
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Add Unallocated Disk Space % to the History view for a database
For Azure SQL Databases, this view currently has check boxes for DTU, CPU, Data IO, and Log IO, which are all checked by default. It would be great to add a check box for Space, which would not be checked by default and would show Unallocated Disk Space %.
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Be able to report on current alert configuration at All Servers and Specific Servers/Instance levels
Be able to run a report or create an output file that lists default and customized alert settings at All Server, Server and Instance level (Including notification setup).
This is a common request from management and at this point the only option I can think is to setup a spreadsheet and start going through all the alerts.
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add custom metric for tracking use of deprecated features
I think it should be possible, using Extended Events or some other method, to create a custom metric that allows SQL Monitor to track the use of deprecated features. This data is useful for upgrade planning or best practice reviews. I realize some of this can be found via server-side tracing, but I have heard that Extended Events may be more efficient.
1 voteWe tend to avoid sharing custom metrics that affect server state (such as creating a new XE). However, you can implement this yourself – the following article should point you in the right direction: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1857/identify-deprecated-sql-server-code-with-extended-events/
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Expand lower section of overview window
I would like the ability to expand the sections in the lower portion of the overview window or break them out into separate windows. For example, when viewing the Top 10 Queries or Waits it is very difficult because there is not enough room. Also because the individual tabs scroll separately from the main window, scrolling is a pain. The top graph section shrinks, but it still takes up too much screen area. Being able to break out in individual sections or expand them to fill the screen would be very helpful.
See attached screenshot for an example.
6 votes
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