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Vroom Performance Suite v1.0.8.5

v1.0.8.5

Jan 6, 2020

Installer

  • Added switches to allow skipping SQL admin checking. This is useful when no objects need to be created that require admin rights. Pass /nosqladmin to the installer executable.
  • Added security support for installing using a UPN.
  • Dropped multi-server scale-out installation from mainstream distribution - available upon request for larger installations.
  • Added feature which will add the VPS service credential as the first usable credential to VPS.
  • Added support for VPS meta-base SQL authentication. This is most important to workgroup configurations.

Data Collection

  • Removed unnecessary decryption inside credential host.
  • Changed the way that databases, wait types and application names are ignored when configured to do so. When configured to be ignored, they are ignored unlessthey are involved in blocking - and all ignoring is done at the service level instead of passing the work to the monitored servers.

Interface

  • Added domain/workgroup, credential and computer validation and remediation information.
  • Moved the alert dashboard to be the default view when logging into VPS. This now functions as the suites main dashboard.
  • Added ability to select monitoring modules when adding a computer.
  • Resolved issue with deadlocks sometimes not showing the header text.
  • Dropped support for health screen - those have been moved to "canned alerts" and drive the main dashboard.
  • Added ability to view the original SQL Statement and as well as the scrubbed/anonymized SQL statement. This is optional for HIPAA, SOX, and PCI compliance.
  • Drop-down server selection lists now default select the only value when they contain only one item.
  • Added additional SQL execution plan nodes.

Charting

  • Added SQL disk/file latency metrics to real-time dashboard.
  • Added CPU per-database and disk latency per-database.
  • Added calendar-picker for dashboard screens.
  • Added real-time page file info and reordered activity columns.
  • Converted various charts to stacked area.
  • Added coordination of colors for associated series across charts.
  • Tuned data aggregation and set it to run more frequently.
  • Resolved real-time metrics not populating on SQL 2014.
  • Remove real-time chart legend items when series has low/no data points. Clutter reduction!
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