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CheckDB and i/o metric alert suppression windows
Hello, I have a large database (Tb's) with many files as part of a DW system. When I perform a CheckDB on that database we see significant Avg Disk read and write alerts. We know this is going to...
Question about Monitor PS commandlet
Hello, I'm trying to build a witness process for an automated checklist to determine if sql monitor is actually monitoring my servers and that someone didn't suspend monitoring and forget to turn i...
SQL monitor database unavailable, but no alert
Today we had an issue on the instance that hosts our SQL Monitor database. The instance experienced about 10 minutes of downtime due to a stack dump and sql service restart.We were not alerted by ...
Filtering blocking alerts from SSRS Report Catalog databases
Hello, I'm having some difficulties filtering some blocking processes from SSRS report catalog databases. [dbo].[CheckSessionLock] is the blocked process, but the blocking information shows as unk...
Old Job Failures re-alert after upgrading to 9.0.3
We upgraded to 9.0.3.20042. Once this was completed and the base monitor came back online, we received a lot of failed job alert emailed from failures that had occurred months before hand. These ...
Modify Alias names for Clustered instances in SQL Monitor
I upgraded to 8.0.19.16748. While I like the change to see Clustered instances by the network name, I'm curious where this information is coming from. We renamed the a SQL instance network name f...
Database file usage alerts with In-Memory/Filestream Filegroups
We implemented a new database using data and schema persisted in-memory objects and recently began seeing Databsae File usage alerts noting that autogrowth settings are turned off and that we shoul...
SQL Monitor alerting for Missing Disks
Today we removed a disk from one of our FCI's. I expected Sqlmonitor to alert that the disk went missing. Is this something that we need to configure differently, or is that functionality not par...
Customize Maintenance windows
In previous versions, maintenance windows silenced all alerts, but still kept track of data. This was helpful in times when a server needed to be restarted etc due to some scheduled maintenance. ...
Interactive Chat inside SQL monitor
I noticed the interactive chat abilities within SQLmonitor 6. While I can see this may provide some valuable feedback for Red Gate, there is some question as to whether this violates our company i...