What we are working on now

Howdy Kathleen, 

curious with the work you guys are trying if its possible to be a guinea pig.  I would absolutely love some of those metrics. 

I have two suggestions that would be of tremendous value to our company:

1) Today if there were a question whether Ignite sent an email or a trap, we would have no documentation that would assure what actions were taken.  It would be great if, like in SQL Agent, there were a list of actions taken and any errors in taking an action listed.  That way we could demonstrate that an email was sent or a trap was generated.

2) If we upgrade a server to a new instance, there is a transition period where we do not wish to monitor the instance but where we may need to reactivate it or we may need to access the history of its monitoring (for a before-and-after comparison).  However, the current options for leaving the monitor in place cause problems for our alerting process. If we leave the monitor on, we will generate instance availability alerts that are false.  If we turn it off, we have no way of showing that this was done on purpose and monitor-the-monitor processes will see it as a problem and alert falsely.  It would be nice if instead of just on and off, there were a third status of "archived" or "decommissioned" to show that the instance is off, but is off on purpose and can safely be ignored by monitor-the-monitor or in the GUI.

Kathleen,

How do customers submit feature request? Is this appropriate forum? I have used Ignite for years, and have just recently received funding at my current company to purchase DPA.

An operational dashboard for AlwaysOn Availability Groups. We use the dashboards within SSMS however it would be nice to see this information available within Ignite/DBA as well.

Hi, Kathleen, in the Storage I/O Performance Statistics ( I/O latency and throughput) , we will have by drive, for example I/O latency for drive c:\; d:\;f:\ ...?

The current version is relying on Tomcat 6, which has a number of vulnerabilities.

Will the next version rely on a newer, more secure version of Tomcat ?

Same question about Apache and JQuery.

Hi Kathleen, I'd be interested in having the ability to drill down by database, machine, user across a time period instead of within a time period. For instance, seeing only the performance information for a single database,user,machine over a day, hour, etc.  In the current setup, it's challenging to try to determine the differences in performance over a specific time frame for these items since the charts get skewed by all of the other items in the list. Let me know your thoughts or if I should provide further clarification.

Hi Kathleen, can we have any information about when the new version is planned to go out ?

Hi Kathy,

What happened to EBS modules the ignite8 had, I don't see visible in DPA. I see no reason to upgrade without this feature.

Has 9.0 been released?