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  1. Allow Fractional Alert Thresholds.

    When you use the "Calculated rate of change" functionality on a custom metric, the results come back in fractional values and you should be able to alert on these values. In my case, I want to monitor number of orders for the last 10 minutes. There are always relatively few orders at night and many during the day, but if order flow drops off drastically in a short period of time, I want to know about it.

    Unfortunately, I can't just alert when the rate of change drops by 25% (-.25) because alerts can only happen on integer values. 100%…

    4 votes
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    Daniel Rothig responded

    A current workaround is to multiply the result by a factor, eg. 100 to make the result a percentage.

  2. Reduce the suggestions on how to fix queries when viewing Top 10 Queries

    SQL Monitor pops up the text "x issues with this query". Addressing them could improve performance. It then lists some things that might have an impact (e.g. select * instead of listing just the columns that are required) but also lists other things that won't change performance (e.g. not specifying a schema name).

    Can this list be reduced to just what is potentially performance related? Maybe have a 2nd field for best practices if that's considered improtant.

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  3. see sessions from sys.dm_exec_requests in top 10 queries

    I never see commands like BACKUP DATABASE or ALTER INDEX in top 10 queries and got the message from support that the information is taken from sys.dmexecquerystats
    As it is now it is hard to track down where heavy I/O comes from if it is for example index maintenance or backup.
    I think RedGate should record all commands from sys.dm    exec_requests and join in the execution plans where they exist and other stats if needed

    17 votes
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  4. be able to set top level notification settings through powershell module

    I want to be able to use Redgatesqm.ps1 to configure smtp server, default email list and other top level notification options.

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  5. Within the estate section under backups, it would be great to be able to exclude the expectation of backups on databases that are SQL Clones

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  6. Make comments apply to alert types, rather than individual incidents

    CONTEXT: We use comments to document the root cause of alerts we encounter

    PROBLEM: When alerts repeat, recovering the comments is a pain - they only apply to individual occurences, so don't get surfaced when they issues re-occur.

    EXAMPLE SOLUIONS:
    - Show historical comments in alerts
    - When creating alerts, allow us to choose whether this applies to the whole alert type

    ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS:
    Comments should also show when configuring alerts

    32 votes
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    completed  ·  Carlos Eriksson responded

    As of v14.0.23 (September 4th)

    We have Redesigned of the 'Alert History' and 'Occurrences' tab in the alert details page. This combines them into one tab and allows for easier access to previous comments.

  7. Summary alert page ordered by active alert type with drill down to detail

    In the previous red gate alert program it had a summary by each alert giving a quantity for the selected monitor period and one could then drill down to the detail for that specific alert in chronological order starting with the most recent - found this most useful - also gave a simple measure of occurrences over time which one could use to track the effectiveness of efficiency projects

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    Thanks for the suggestion – we believe this has been addressed with the Grouped Alerts released in Version 7.1.18.

    We will close this suggestion, but please do raise another suggestion if you have other specific improvements you’d like to see.

    Kind regards,
    Adam
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  8. Re-fire alert notification if alert stays active

    My initial problem was that an alert that was still active was marked as cleared, but I wanted the alert to 're-appear' as essentially it hadn't been fixed.

    This then led me to thinking about any alerts that can move from Active to Ended. It would be useful to configure these is such a way that if they stay Active for a given period, then they re-fire. I understand that is what the multiple thresholds can be used for (especially if the thresholds define time periods) but in this case I may already be at High, there is no further…

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  9. deadlock Detailed Report

    Please create a detailed deadlock report.
    In addition to the existing DeadLock summary report, can you please create a DeadLock Detailed report for all deadlocks for a given time range.
    Looking for a DETAILED report of deadlocks (all deadlocks for the time range) that will include:
    1. Date / Time of the event
    2. Blocking SPID and full query text
    3. Duration of the block
    3. All Child or deadlock victim SPID and full query text of the victim
    Similar to the summary report, will need to be able to select the SQL server instance and / or database to…

    3 votes
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  10. Exclude a database, instance or the entire alert based on an actual alert

    It would be a nice feature to be able to click on an alert and get the option to exclude future alerts:
    1 - for this specific database
    2 - for this specific instance
    3 - for this specific alert

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  11. Be able to schedule a maintenance window with the possibility to use an offset.

    Be able to schedule a maintenance window with the possibility to use an offset. Say every 3rd tuesday of the month + 12 days.

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  12. Have database sessions displayed with the networking info from sys.dm_exec_connections(SqlServer)

    Having a window of session connection information, especially using the network info per session as seen in the sys.dmexecconnections view from SqlServer would be very helpful. This also helps in associating network latency waits with the actual app session(s).

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  13. Current Activity (sp_whoisactive) History

    I would love to see snapshots of current activity (sp_whoisactive) taken on a regular cadence (e.g. every 5 minutes would be very useful for troubleshooting).
    So in the current activity tab I can select a snapshot time from a dropdown of taken snapshot times. Backwards/Forward buttons advancing to the next/previous snapshot would very powerful.

    Having the top queries and waits etc. is super useful, but being able to see a snapshot of the active running queries around an incident would add a lot of value.

    Appreciate that is potentially generating a significant volume of data so appropriate retention/default capture options/…

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  14. Search for SPID for specific Date and Time

    I would be a good idea to have a functionality in SQL Monitor to search for SPID for specific Date and time. This will help us to review what query run by who on given date and time.

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  15. is there fix in the works for IE10?

    In order to see almost anything, need to put browser into IE9 compatibility and some features still not showing like current server stats

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    completed  ·  Adam responded

    The update has now been released. SQL Monitor will display a message above the product name banner when it next checks for updates.

    Alternatively, you can get it direct from http://www.red-gate.com/dynamic/products/dba/sql-monitor/download then click the ‘Returning customer installer download’ link on right.

    Please let us know if this doesn’t fix the issue for you.

    Thanks
    SQL Monitor Development Team

  16. I wish the blocking Process report included the resource the Blocked processes are waiting on.

    My Dev write 500+ line procedures and functions so the SQL "Fragment" is seldom very helpful.
    It would be much more helpful to identify the resources the processes are blocked on. Even just the waitresource and waittype columns from sys.dmexecrequests would help.

    I know some of the resource types are tough to parse in T-SQL.

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  17. Add "not started within X minutes" delay before SQL Agent status alert raised

    In an unpredictable maintenance window environment, as in, SQL Monitor's abilities in the window setting arena are inadequate, there are a reasonable number of times when SQL Agent is restarted with good reason.

    As alerts are tied to pagerduty, it's a one size fits all Alert at present, which isn't helpful.

    If a "delay emitting Alert for X time periods" could be added to this Alert, the short-duration bounces will go un-alerted, which really helps on call personnel to avoid unnecessary awakenings for "it is of no matter" Alerts.

    In my case, there are 24 recorded incidents of this…

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  18. Ability to filter "TOP Queries" by login

    Often we want to filter queries not only per existing options (database, parent or query) but it's useful to be able to search for a specific login.

    Could you allow searching by login using "l:" or "login:"?

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  19. on the overview, monitored instances be able to choose which groups to show

    It is possible to choose one or all groups on the monitored instances overview. I would like to be able to select more than one group to show or deselect some groups that I do not want to see.

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  20. Allow nested groups on the Overview screen

    I have a structure of groups where the first level is environment (Production, Test, Development, etc) but then I have component as a second level (ETL, Application, Data QA, Sandbox). On the Overview screen, only the first level of the grouping is used, and therefore I have servers under 'Production' all bundled together and ordered by name across all the secondary groups. Would be good if the overview screen could show multiple groups somehow ... I understand there might be servers under the first level and the second level, and it might be weird for some customers ...…

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