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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, SQL Server: target memory. On the face of it, it looks like SQL Server is using way more than target memory, and in fact more than the entire machine is using!! Only when you mouse over the graph and get the values do you see that the total memory is in fact just under target memory and fairly well below machine memory.
So I'd like it if the graph was more intelligent about this, and shared the x axis when it could. Not sure how you can handle this if there are a mixture of compatible and non-compatible metrics, but you've got some good UXers there who can bash this around!
(also discussed on the forums : https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/148065)
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, SQL…
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Add exclusions to Job Failing alerts
When a user deliberately stops a job while it's running, it fires a job failed alert. Add exclusion regex so we can add something like "The job was stopped prior to completion by User...." to ignore these.
14 votes -
Improve alert troubleshooting by showing sql server error log
When viewing an alert it may be helpful to see the error log for the server for the surrounding time. RAISERROR can log to the error log, so this info could be useful to see.
8 votes -
Show Job Description in Job Alerts
I'd like to see the job description in job alerts. We use this field in sql server to add notes about what the job does, who to inform on failure and rerun steps.
6 votes -
Create summary tile with alert search results
I'd like a summary tile to show failed jobs. To be more flexible, a functionality to save an alert search as a summary tile would be a nice feature.
3 votes -
SQL USER PROCESSES (TOP 10 BY CPU) - drill down
Server hosts/matrix
Drill down
Some select's come up in mine, but I'm not able to drill down to find more details like the SQL itself4 votes -
Select what alerts i want to receive by Slack, the same way it happens by Email
Slack messages are a little annoying when all the alerts are sent by them.
I would like to configure the alerts i want to receive on slack. Today this is possible to configure in the e-mail option.8 votes -
enhance Title on Analysis Graph Page with "machine metrics"; "machine name"; (all)
Simply add to existing title with the selection of dropdown boxes as "machine metrics"; "machine name"; (all).
So we don't need to scroll down or include the bottom boxes to know which machine and options are being displayed...
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SQL Monitor currently does not have customization on scheduling for custom metrics
SQL Monitor currently does not have customization on scheduling for custom metrics- only per min\5 min\hour basis.
the option to setup your own schedule could be given to users and setup your own frequency or metric collection.15 votes -
ssis
SQL Monitor currently does not monitor the execution of SSIS Packages.
It would be extremely useful if SQL Monitor would monitor the execution of the SSIS packages like it does the execution of SQL Jobs
E.g.
Alert if the SSIS Package Execution Fails
Alert if the SSIS Package is taking longer than normal to Execution
Alert if the SSIS Package fails to start41 votes -
Delay "Performance Data" Load for MOST Alerts
For at least 99% of Alerts of Interest over the last 6 YEARS of using SQL Monitor, the lower pane's "Performance Data" is of nigh on zero use.
IF it might be of use, give us a "Load..." button next to that heading, and load it on demand.
When I'm ploughing through a hundred or so predominantly Blocking Process and Deadlock alerts, the most important information is in the Details and Processes tabs.
Page loading delays will decrease because you won't have to pull eye-candy charts that aren't read for the bulk of the time.
The "Delay..." option, for me, is something I'd use against each Alert Configuration at the All Servers level. Other folks may want to be a bit more granular, but at least "noise reduction" and "higher performance" could start at the Alert Config level, please...
For at least 99% of Alerts of Interest over the last 6 YEARS of using SQL Monitor, the lower pane's "Performance Data" is of nigh on zero use.
IF it might be of use, give us a "Load..." button next to that heading, and load it on demand.
When I'm ploughing through a hundred or so predominantly Blocking Process and Deadlock alerts, the most important information is in the Details and Processes tabs.
Page loading delays will decrease because you won't have to pull eye-candy charts that aren't read for the bulk of the time.
The "Delay..." option, for me,…
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Sharing links
link share.. . past 24 hours link, you send it, and people click on it, still shows past 24 hours, not the 24 hours from when you shared it
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In the ability to compare metrics with historic performance I would like to drop certain days (or hours)
Most of my SQL usage is a mon-Fri pattern so adding in the 2 weeekend days creates a much wider band of "normal" than is realistic. I would like to be able to create a pattern of timeperiods to add in to the comparison so I can drop out days (and maybe hours) which are not representative of "normal" running
3 votes -
create user permissions script
provide the sql to run for users to use during install to assign permissions to the back end database use and the monitored db use
obviously explain about the SysAdmin problem with your product
https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/80787/required-permissions-changed-after-upgrade
https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/80448/new-permissions-needed-for-monitoring
https://documentation.red-gate.com/display/SM7/Permissions7 votes -
I would like to be able to export/import all of my custom metrics that i have configured in my SQL Monitor. Is this at all possible?
We are migrating our SQL Monitor to a new server and i would like to avoid having to manually recreate all the custom metrics we have configured. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
14 votes -
Apply filters to more SQL Server alerts
In configuring Long Running Query, I'm able to specify a filter on the process name (e.g. wanted to exclude my "Barracuda" backup processes - and did so successfully). I'd like to do the same for other Alerts such as Deadlocks and Blocking Processes.
5 votes -
Would like to set SNMP trap eventtime in a localized time format, currently only CET time format (with trailing Z) is sent in a SNMP message
Would like to set SNMP trap eventtime in a localized time format, currently only CET time format (with trailing Z) is sent in a SNMP message
3 votes -
Identify which Virtual Host a server is on
In our environment we have a number of different virtual hosts and clusters on which our servers are hosted. It would be quite useful if the SQL server summary information showed the name of the host and cluster on which it is being hosted. As well if host and cluster name could be displayed somehow on the analysis graphs that would be great.
12 votes -
Alerts to be automatically marked as cleared after 'X' days
Have an option so alerts can be automatically marked as cleared after a variable amount of days.
This would prevent us from manually clearing them down.12 votes -
Identify and alert on heap fragmentation
Currently SQL Monitor does not have a way to identify and alert on heap fragmentation. I suggest you add this to the product.
I know having a heap is usually a bad idea and that heap maintenance is a pain (rebuilding a heap also rebuilds all the nonclustered indexes on it, SQL Server doesn't release a page of a heap table, and doesn't use free space in previously used pages unless you are doing deletes with TABLOCK hints), but there are some valid use cases for heaps.
14 votes
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