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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Add additional metrics for Latency, Failover, queries categories for MongoDB
• Replicaset metrics around latency and failovers…etc. Like SQL Server.
• Something to track queries performing large scans vs seeks.
• Would be nice if the alerts (even if duplicated were broken out by platform. They are shown by SQL which I get is your primary offering, but just saying also postgressql vs seeing its PostgressSQL on Linux or MongoDB on Linux and change the alert offering to reflect those in a separate grouping like SQL.
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Additional Overview Tab Suggestions
• OS configuration (how many sockets/cores and Memory are allocated) * SQL Server, Mongo and PostgresSQL environments Right now there are only %’s, I want to see of what.
• MongoDB Memory configuration I see SQLs but Mongo is missing. i.e. WiredTiger Cache settings
• ReplicaSet information for Mongo, along with who is the primary, secondaries and where are the secondaries seeding from, and the status.
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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.
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Trend Analysis and Forecasting for Azure SQL Database capacity
A previous feature suggestion, https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/11122308-forecast-and-plan-disk-database-capacity, was completed in 2018. However, it does not include storage for Azure SQL Databases or Elastic Pools. While we can alert on this, we get no trend analysis or forecasting.
Selecting All Disks and All Groups on the Estate | Disk usage page gets us "No disks match your filter criteria."
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Add Unallocated Disk Space % to the History view for a database
For Azure SQL Databases, this view currently has check boxes for DTU, CPU, Data IO, and Log IO, which are all checked by default. It would be great to add a check box for Space, which would not be checked by default and would show Unallocated Disk Space %.
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Grant access to the Security Auditing features to a specific user role or user group
As a DBA, I wish to grant access to the Security Auditing features (Permissions changes and Configuration compliance) to our security team. I do not wish the security team to have full administrator access to the Redgate Monitor installation as they are not DBAs and neither interested in nor responsible for any other parts in Redgate Monitor.
At the moment, only Redgate Monitor administrators have access to the above enterprise security features in Redgate Monitor. From a separation-of-duty perspective, the security team should not have full access as administrators to the Redgate Monitor installation.
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Monitoring of Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
With the introduction of monitoring of MysQL it should also be great if we can get monitoring of Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server.
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Data retention - auto shrink if SQL
Recently engaged with redgate support about this and was advised to raise on here.
When changing data retention settings within Monitor and reducing the timeframe, it does free up space within the database but it isn't released.
Adding a routine within Monitor to run a shrinkfile against the database would be an ideal solution, but even adding a button/form within Monitor to set up a SQL agent job to do this in a standardised way would be fantastic as a quality of life, as if you're reducing the retention it's usually going to be because of disk space constraints.
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Include SQL comments in Top Queries search
I use Entity Framework Core to interact with a SQL Server database, which comes with the ability to "tag" queries with extra searchable information for troubleshooting purposes.
This extra information is in the form of SQL comments, like so:
-- SPARK: PartyRepository.PartySearch
It would be very valuable to be able to search for this data, but unfortunately it appears that comments are excluded from Top Queries search, even though the data is there in SQL Monitor query data.
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flexible disk configuration
Currently the configuration for disk space monitoring in “RedGate Monitor” only gives the option to check on the number of bytes that is still free on the disk (in GB or MB).
Ideally one should check on the number of bytes in combination with the % free space.
The reason for this is that percentage hugely differs depending on the total size of the disk. On a small disk one would like to extend the disk when it is 80% FULL, where as on a much bigger disk, 20% space might still be many GB’s and to early to extend…4 votes -
Monitor an Azure SQL Database geo-replicated secondary database
We have geo-replication set up for many of our production databases, and we have some processes and users that use that for executing read-only queries. We have alerts set up in Azure Monitor for simple things like when CPU % exceeds 95% for more than 2 minutes. We would like to use Redgate Monitor to identify the workload that is causing that (Top SQL). However, when we try to add the secondary server, Redgate Monitor cannot find any databases in it.
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DataRetention setting and Performance troubleshooting data per technology because needs may be different
Possibility define DataRetention setting and Performance troubleshooting data per technology because needs may be different between sqlserver, postgres , mysql, etc, and improve disk space of seacrh engine queries.
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Want to monitor SingleStore Databases
As part of our infrastructure, we utilize SingleStore databases, and we would greatly benefit from monitoring capabilities within your platform. Given its MySQL-based architecture, we believe incorporating SingleStore monitoring into RedGate’s suite would enhance visibility, optimize performance tracking, and streamline database operations.
We kindly request that you consider adding SingleStore database monitoring at the earliest opportunity.
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Want to monitor SingleStore Databases
As part of our infrastructure, we utilize SingleStore databases, and we would greatly benefit from monitoring capabilities within your platform. Given its MySQL-based architecture, we believe incorporating SingleStore monitoring into RedGate’s suite would enhance visibility, optimize performance tracking, and streamline database operations.
We kindly request that you consider adding SingleStore database monitoring at the earliest opportunity.
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Add Index rebuild command into alert mail
I get sometimes Fragmented Index alerts as mail.
To fix it , I have to copy every single index name into the clipboard, switch to SSMS, write “ALTER INDEX ”, insert the index name and let SQL Prompt add the AS <table> and finally have to add the word REBUILD.
Why do you not make it simpler for me (and other customers) and add just another column that already contains the whole INDEX REBUILD command (or REORGANIZE if the fragmentation is low) to the mail / web frontent.
It's still to me, if I want to execute it or if…
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Add ability to monitor mongodb hosted on Windows
Add the ability to monitor mongodb instances hosted on Windows - currently only Linux selfhosted mongodb instances are supported.
I suppose this will not be a very popular suggestion because most organisations are hosting mongo on Linux, but for the few that do - like us - it'd be very nice to have.
I would expect this one would be easy to implement as there already is a need to enter Windows credentials for monitoring when adding SQL Server hosted on Windows.
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View top queries, stored procs, top waits, index usage at estate level on Azure SQL
You can currently only view the top stats at DB level for Azure SQL. We run a multi-tenanted SaaS application where all DB's are identical across the estate, so to be able to compare offending stored procs, indexes etc. across the board would be incredibly helpful.
4 votes -
using standard user rights one should be able to create an alert suppression and only remove one if that one was made by the same user
DEVOPs team know when they have planned changes and in that case it would be good that they can create alert suppression and after the change removing that without we need to grant them admin rights
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Allow customisation of query execution threshold for Individual query monitoring
Individual query monitoring is currently either only catching or possible only displaying queries longer then 5 seconds. Should be great if it was possible to customise this threshold.
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Improved windows range handling for Individual query monitoring
The current windows range on the new Query executions tab is fixed to 2 hours. Should be great if the length of the windows range could be customised.
At the same time make it working together with the zoom range on the History tab. This so if you have zoomed in to a certain time range on history tab then when opening Query executions the same time range should be used as the windows range. Alternatively you could use the same type of windows range and zoom range that are already used on the History tab.
4 votes
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