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  1. Improvements to Alert Notifications when you have multiple alert thresholds

    You can configure alerts in Regdate Monitor to have different thresholds (low, medium, high). The problem is that all notifications have to go to the same email address(es).

    We'd suggest an improvement to allow diffent notification methods for each level. For examples, send low alerts go to one email address and medium/high go to a different email address.

    This would allow us to send the more critical alerts via OpsGenie/Jira.

    6 votes
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  2. rss

    RSS Feed, can it be exposed so logon to SQL monitor isn't needed

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  3. Alerts with and/or (boolean) logic

    To determine performance problem b it is needed to monitor several counter values at once. For example when counter x and counter y and counter z are all below 10 then you have a memory problem. I would be nice to contruct that kind of logic to get true performance alerts.

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  4. add SSO option to the AD/LDAP logon screen

    Attached file is from an application we use that allows the user to quickly logon as themselves, or to manually enter network credentials. In addition, the attached file shows a logon screen with the application version number; this too would be helpful for Redgate Monitor without having to login and check the configuration info page.

    4 votes
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  5. Traceflag 1222 for deadlocks

    Use traceflag 1222 for deadlocks when monitoring SQL 2005+, and keep 1204 just for SQL 2000 instances. 1222 gives so much more information and doesn't cut off the SQL text.

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    completed  ·  Priya Sinha responded

    Hello,

    We are pleased to annouce that this feature is now implemented as part of v4.0 release. Please check release notes for more details.

    Thanks,
    Priya

  6. OpenID Connect client certificate or LDAPS

    My company does not support OpenID "only client secret" and requests that Redgate Monitor use Client Certificate when authenticating users with Entra. Can you implement Client Certificate Support? Alternatively, how about to expand LDAP implementation to utilize SSL?

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  7. Add multiple actions for alerts based on different conditions

    It would be nice to be able to configure different actions for the same alert based on different criteria.

    For example, with the SQL Job failure alert - It would be very useful to be able to have these alerts go to X email address if the job contains "DBA" in the job name, and the alert go to Y email address if the job doesn't contain that text in the job name (This is just a basic example, being able to configure multiple of these types of filters would be the goal).

    Right now the only possible…

    19 votes
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  8. I would like to suppress an alert in PostgreSQL log

    I would like to suppress an alert in PostgreSQL log, I made a configuration but it is not working, I keep receiving the alert coming from the PostgreSQL log. Support told me it is only possible for SQL Server.

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  9. Make cookie timeout duration configurable

    Currently Cookies expire after 2 days, this means you have to re-enter your password for SQL Monitor every two days. This should be configurable. Some of us have adequate desktop security, and secure external access that this is unnecessary.

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  10. groups

    Group properties.
    I am using groups to group databases by application /development group. Then use tags to determine prd, dev, uat etc.

    What would be really useful would be able to add properties to a group such as the developer name to contact when i see poor queries

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  11. Filter for VMWare virtual machine list under Manage VMWare hosts

    Add a filter in the vmware host to list only monitored servers. On and off checkbox would be enough.

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  12. Pause auto-refresh when you view query recommendations.

    When a user clicks on query recommendations, the auto-refresh needs to be paused. Otherwise, the recommendation pop-up window closes when Monitor refreshes.

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  13. Make the alerting system AG Aware

    Similar in nature to the Job Duration Unusual Alert should be AG aware - there are many alerts we do not want to see on an AG secondary unless it is set to readable - things like server waits due to queries running on master etc generate alerts when running against a base line but we dont need to get the alert/notification if the AG is set to secondary

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  14. Change Processor Utilization per instance

    Currently i have 4 instances which are part of an availability group and run maintenance as various times. although different maintenance windows would be nice to have the flexibility of changing Processor Utilization per instance rather than per cluster.

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  15. Find Queries / Stored Procs whose Performance has Decreased Over Time

    In preparation for changing the database compatibility level for our primary database to 2014, we would like to see which queries and stored procedures are performing poorly after the switch is made in the staging environment. While I can do this to a limited extent by looking at top queries in Red Gate Monitoring, I was wondering if there was an automated way to alert on this. For example, alert on any stored procedures / queries that appear in the top 100 costliest queries by duration / CPU usage, whose average duration / CPU usage has more than doubled…

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  16. Enable changing Alert levels on Clock Skew alerts

    I would like to be able to change the alert level from high to medium or even low.
    It would be nice if the alert level would be set depending on the skew size, so that for example low level could mean 5 second, medium at 10 seconds and high at 30 seconds.

    I would like to do this, since we receive the alert occasionally from our test server (is gets cleared rather quickly so it is no big issue for us).

    7 votes
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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for this suggestion. Apologies for not updating at the time, but this suggestion was completed in version 8.0.10 in July 2018.

    We will mark this as completed but please do let us know if you have any further feedback.

    Kind regards,
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  17. Correct Database file usage alerts with In-Memory/Filestream Filegroups

    The Database file usage alerts in V 8.2 are great, however they do not work correctly with Filestream filegroups. per https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/153592 they are not supported.

    Please either add support for these filegroup types or disable them by default so we are not spammed by alerts for something that's not valid.

    Thanks,
    -Luke.

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  18. Recognize Low Alerts visually in overview

    Low Alerts show as blue dots on the Latest Alerts panel, but in the overview they show Green like Healthy.
    Especially when showing Small Tiles (we monitor 60+ instances) they do not stand out from Healty ones (see the attached examples).

    For that reason I dont use many Low Alerts.
    It would be more consistent to use blue in the overviews also.

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  19. File Usage per File Group within the DB

    Want to be able to set database file usage per drive level on the server level. But there are many times when a vendor created db, they have multiple data files mdf/ndf and have them set to limits. So i was wondering can we get even more granular. I want to be able to drill down to the database and select a particular file group and say ignore this drive, it has meet its capascity and even though its 100% filled data is no longer being written there. And the reason behind that is there can be multiple data files…

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  20. be able to report on deadlocks

    Add the possibility to report on deadlocks. The information is stored in the database as an alert but it's currently not possible to report on alerts.

    I'd like to see the occurrence of deadlocks over time, per database,...

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    completed  ·  Neil Turner responded

    A tile showing the top 5 most commonly occurring types of deadlock grouped by the pattern of locking within the deadlock is now available within 'Reports'.

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