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Let's see if I can make clear how particularly bad this issue is.  In a nutshell at no time without actually being in and looking at SQL Monitor do I know with any certainty that my Sql servers and db's are being monitored unless I have another solution monitoring the SQL Server that houses my SQL Monitor DB and actually monitoring that individual db since it is when the DB goes offline that SQL Monitor stops monitoring without any indication that there is a problem.  This actually means my entire environment  could be having issues and SQL Monitor could be in a compromised state and no one would be the wiser.  In essence until there is some alert coming back from SQL Monitor that its database is offline It cannot be trusted.  Do any of your customers know this.  Is it pointed out anywhere that if you are going to use SQL Monitor to monitor your SQL Server environment you need to have a different SQL Server monitoring system in place to make sure its db is up and that it is able to monitor.  I run servers with databases backing millions of customers and call centers with thousands of users and I am now finding out that SQL Monitor cannot be trusted to alert me when its own database goes offline and that Red-Gate is passing it off as since it cannot be logged to a db we can't alert on it.  SQL Monitor SHOULD BE SCREAMING WHEN THIS HAPPENS.  And Red-Gate should issuing a notice with an intent to correct not an excuse and a non response.   / comments
Let's see if I can make clear how particularly bad this issue is.  In a nutshell at no time without actually being in and looking at SQL Monitor do I know with any certainty that my Sql servers and...
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Heck, a local log entry indicating when the SQL Monitor database goes offline and online along with an email sent and an internal process that syncs such log entries back to the db when it comes back online would be great.  This could be done as a separate alert type and even use a completely separate table in the db.   Setting up other monitoring watching the base monitor service won't catch this since the service stays online.  This means that without this type of check within SQL Monitor on its own db and hence its own SQL server, I am required to put a second different monitoring solution in place in order to properly monitor my sql servers.  That means when things are quiet I am left to question whether my SQL Servers are even being monitored or if SQL Monitor is actually doing nothing.  And that could leave me as the person in charge of making sure our DB's are up and working, wondering if things are ok.  And I have had this actually happen on more than 2 occasions.  This actually should be a priority fix.  Furthermore the above suggestion of employing a multi-base configuration is not a real solution to this problem since you still have the issue when not running a multi-base solution.  Also of note is that I run TB's of db's supporting large call centers across several states servicing 10's of millions of customers, I need to know those servers are up and working and need to be able to identify issues prior to them effecting my users else we loose thousands of dollars a minute in revenue. So I need a solution to this in pretty short order or I will have to find a different solution.  As it is now I have to find another way to monitor not just this server but the DB on it, since either going down leaves me with no SQL monitoring on any of my servers, and at this point SQL Monitor leaves me hanging without a clue.  One other thing of note is when the db does come back online it registers a. CPU spike across everyone of my servers and cause alerts to be sent out.  This false alert is what clued us into the above problem.  I have seen the spike after doing updates to the SQL Server It just didn't register that I had a much bigger problem at the time. / comments
Heck, a local log entry indicating when the SQL Monitor database goes offline and online along with an email sent and an internal process that syncs such log entries back to the db when it comes ba...
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Intermittent Missing data for Machine and SQL Sql Server metrics for servers w/ 2018-10 CU KB4462917
After updating the Windows 2016  with 2018-10 CU (KB4462917) for the machine with our SQL Servers the Machine and SQL Server Metrics are missing 2-4 minutes of data every ~20 minutes.  Each server'...
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Does removing and re-adding a Cluster server Lose the history
I recently moved a SQL Fci to our production cluster.  To do this I had setup a new FCI instance on our production cluster with a different name, move all of the databases sync everything up.  Rena...
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