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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Show prefered/active node on cluster
When runnning a database instance on a cluster it would be helpful if you could see on which phusical machine (node) the database instance is active on. It would be very usefull if that information was shown on the global overview page.
8 votesThis can be seen on the Cluster overview page, in the instances grid – activeness and preferredness differ per FCI
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Add custom banner to the logon page
Basic authentication is sufficient for simple installations for few users. But security recommendations require a custom banner be displayed at the logon page. It will be nice if Redgate Monitor can do that without using OpenID or other external authentication methods.
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Add alias to rest api
The rest endpoint api/v1/monitored-entities should include the alias field. It would present as an empty string if the monitored entity does not have as an alias and filled in if an alias has assigned to the monitored object.
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Show job name not job ID value for job related alerts
When viewing SQL Agent job related alerts the identifier is the Id value stored in SQL Server, it would be more useful if this displayed the actual job name.
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Make reports from database extended properties and sort it by database name for CMDB purpose
Make reports from database extended properties and sort it by database name for CMDB purpose
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I would like to configure different gMSA accounts as credentials for different servers
I would like to use the more secure gMSA accounts when configuring credentials for servers that are monitored and use different gMSA accounts for different servers
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Analysis Graph Tab
This is about the Statistics for the Disk avg. read and write metrics.
There are times when based on the results for a server the statistics are presented in seconds. More often than not it will be 0.0, 0.2 sec, etc.
This is not very helpful, and I often find myself having to download the Export (csv) and get the average.It would be much more beneficial to just show all results in milliseconds, or present an option to the end user of seeing ms or seconds.
Thank you
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Customise Email Settings For Each Alert Setting
It would be great if you could have an override on each alert to allow for a customised email setting just for that alert.
Currently an alert can have a different email address BUT it only uses the default settings, if I wanted to fine tune for that alert I can't.
Thanks, Steve19 votes -
Being able to set alerts based on existing KPIs (Analysis Graph) instead of create a new custom metric
If I want to create an alert based on some existing KPIs, I need to write the query and can't leverage the existing one.
Example:
I want to create an alert when the "Tempdb: Free bytes" is lower than X.
I can't use the existing "SQL Server metrics" that contain this KPI.
Instead, I need to create a new custom metric and build the query. (which in the end it will be exactly the same). Only after that I can create an alert.2 votes -
See last backup of each type in Overview page
Currently the backup section in a database on the overview page shows the backups that happened in the selected range, and it only shows the last backup of each type that happens. We have a database that does full backups once a week and then differentials.
It would be helpful at a glance to see the status of the last backup of each type regardless of if it happened in the time window or not. Maybe hide the last differential if it happened before the last full.
6 votesWe have redesigned the Backups information to more clearly show the selected range it refers to, and also show when the last backups occurred prior to that. This can be seen in the latest version (8.0.25)
We hope this improvement completes the suggestion and will mark it as completed. Do let us know if you have any further feedback
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Blocking Process Alert to be based on Blocking Time
This idea has been posted before but marked as closed, so posting again. For blocking process alert, it would be good to have the option to setup the alert in a way where we can report on the duration when the first and last blocking happened and if it exceeds a certain threshold.
Let's say, we have set the threshold for 90 seconds and if there are three processes that have wait time of 30 seconds each, that totals to 90 seconds, we receive an alert. However, we don’t want to receive an alert for the 30 second blocked processes.…
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allow analysis graphs to update with realtime data without having to manually refresh them
We have SQLmonitor analysis graphs running on wallboards to show us data that is useful to us, but we continually need to click the button to "jump to present", as the timeline does not update as more data is collected to show the most recent history. We want the graph to move automatically to match the current time of day.
Maybe a "play" button that would allow thye display to automatically refresh the graph along the timeline and a pause button should you want to drill deeper into a certain time period when investigating issues. Having the graph update…19 votes -
Slack notification in more detailed
Slack notifies the alert, would be great to view complete details in slack specific to notified. This helps giving access to development for a slack channel to look into Long Running Query corresponding to database. without giving full access
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Detailed Memory usage breakdown
I would like to see a breakdown of memory usage. For example, how much memory is used by the plan cache, how much for the buffer pool, etc.
Also, a breakdown of memory usage per database.8 votes -
Include Top N Worst Performing Stored Procedures and Functions
At my organization, we do a lot of tuning at the stored procedure and function level.
I would like a tab similar to the existing top 10 queries tab, that lists the CPU utilization, memory utilization and IO consumption of the top 10 worst performing stored procedures, and another tab that lists the top 10 worst performing functions. For each of the fields I would like to see both the totals, and the percent of total during the specified time period.
This will allow us to identify the stored procedures and functions to tune, and once tuned, it will allow…
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handle case insensitivity with regex
We can configure some alerts to be ignored based on names/objects that are matched using reguler expressions.
Regex is case sensitive, but to avoid having to put all possible combinations in the regex boxes, could that be handled internally by SQL Monitor - for example by uppercasing (or lowercasing) all text before comparing?1 voteHi,
SQL Monitor supports all standard .NET regex characters, and uses the IgnoreCase option. All regular expressions are therefore case-insensitive.
Thanks,
Neil Turner
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Customize the Alert page Columns
Due to the lack of any useful actual time-zone date-time presentation in the UI (I still have issues because of the SEVEN I have to deal with), kindly allow us to add columns to the Alerts page.
Specifically, I MUST HAVE the Group designation. This is the way I group by time-zone. When looking down the All Servers list, because there are always alerts across all the zones, having the "time-zone" right before the "Object" makes handling the busy list much easier than having to wait for each node's page to render, especially as the Alert Page performance has…
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Have the ability to pin the left sidebar in the overview screen
It'd be great if we could pin the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen on the overview section when looking at a particular server. As I'm looking over metrics I oven find myself hovering over that section then waiting for it to expand and collapse again. An example concept implementation that I think would work well is similar to how Microsoft implements basically that same functionality in their office suite (in particular off hand outlook is a great example). Really just being able to pin it in place I think would satisfy the entire issue for me…
3 votesThe sidebar is now either open or closed (it will no longer open on mouseover).
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2 votes
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Add % CPU Usage column for the "User SQL processes (top 10 by CPU usage)" section.
On the Overview page for the SQL Server instance there is a section: User SQL processes (top 10 by CPU usage) that show current SPIDs that are utilizing CPU resources. This section should show the actual % of CPU usage for that SPID.
1 vote
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