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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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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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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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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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.
1 voteAvailable in version 13.0.53.1762.
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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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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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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 votesThanks 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 -
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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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,...
32 votesA 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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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.4 votes -
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.6 votes -
Have the RG tempdb table indexed
The RGAllObjectsv4 table in tempdb currently accounts for 7 of the top 20 missing index suggestions on our production server via the built-in report in SSMS. Can this be indexed by RG so that the indexes will be reapplied when the server or service is restarted? I've attached the list of suggestions.
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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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Database File Usage Alert - Autogrowth
Database File Usage Alert : Please consider autogrowth! So far, this alert is of no help.
3 votesSQL Monitor v7.1.18 added an option to disable database file usage alerts when autogrowth is enabled. The setting can be found on the configuration screen for the database file usage alert.
Thanks for helping us improve this feature with your suggestion.
SQL Monitor Development Team
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Display on TV screen
Hi, We run Yodeck boxes to display content on TV's
This has a scripting function to pass some logon details
It would be good if I could have a read only view of the server dashboard or help identify the submit button to script it
Ive tried - Only the password is enteredtype("""#password""","""MYPASSWORD""")
click("""#remember-password""")
click("""#submit""")5 votes -
Setting Maintenance Window via API service
That would be very nice if there as an API service which we would use to set maintenance window for a given sql host or a group of hosts.
7 votesThanks for this suggestion. SQL Monitor 10 now allows teams to suppress alerts, or just their notifications, over certain periods using alert suppression windows. Windows can be set-up using SQL Monitor, or via the API. Please see the example Scripts within Configuration for more details.
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
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Group alerts into a hierarchy
I want to be able to group alerts into a hierarchy so that for instance when a server goes offline, all of the other alerts generated such as instance unavailable are not generated.
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Another Field to Change the Display Order of Servers on the Dashboard
On the dashboard, server instances are currently ordered by two fields - Name or Severity which is selected via a drop down list. Can we have another field - Sort ID (int), to give users another way to sort? This field can either be hidden or displayed.
1 voteHi Dean,
This is currently possible by setting an alias for an instance (hover over the righthand corner for a card, click the menu icon and select ‘Alias…’).For example you might set:
1_AliasA
2_AliasBSelecting ‘Order by Name’ in the drop down will then allow you to use this ordering within a group on the dashboard.
Alternatively you can pin instances to the top of the dashboard (hover over the righthand corner for a card, click the menu and select ‘Pin to top’).
I hope that helps.
Neil Turner
SQL Monitor design lead -
Long Running Open SSMS Transaction
Would be really helpful to have an alert that can alert on long running open SSMS transaction and the alert can return the user running it and query being run and on what server we often see it when users forget to commit or role back there transaction.
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Have option to keep the base instance name in display for availability groups
We have the option to choose between Windows cluster name and FCI network name for FCI. However, in an Availability Group scenario, every instance is being show by the cluster name first, which is obviously the same for all of them. This makes it difficult to identify the correct one when you need to look at a specific instance. Would like to add this as a configuration option so that clustered AG servers we can also choose whether to use cluster name or instance name as display
6 votes
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