v1.0.8.5
Jan 6, 2020Installer
- Added switches to allow skipping SQL admin checking. This is useful when no objects need to be created that require admin rights. Pass
/nosqladminto 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!