ApexSQL Monitor 2015 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Monitor 2015 has been released

Type: Major feature, medium fix release

About ApexSQL Monitor: ApexSQL Monitor is a Windows and SQL Server monitoring tool with a wide range of monitored metrics. It tracks Windows, SQL Server instance, and database metrics on multiple local and remote machines and SQL Server instances. It monitors the most important SQL Server statistics, memory, buffer, and page metrics – batch requests per second, user connections, target and total server memory, buffer cache hit ratio, batch requests, page life expectancy, page reads and writes per second, and more. Monitoring these metrics enables you to identify and troubleshoot performance problems, establish trends, and set baselines.

For more information visit the ApexSQL Monitor product page.

About this release:

Enhancements:

  • Query wait statistics history and analysis
  • Wait statistics for individual servers
  • Custom SQL Server and database metrics
  • Calculated metrics baselines for desired date range
  • Built-in ApexSQL Deadlock info alert action for analyzing deadlocks
  • Improved server overview and charts loading performance up to 70%
  • One click navigation from dashboard or charts to alerts window and from measurements to query waits tab

Usability improvements:

  • Alerts are displayed per selected server, group or for all instances
  • Metrics are configurable per server, server group or for all instances at once
  • The "Dashboard" screen displays the number of online instead of offline instances
  • CPU, disk, memory and databases alerts are displayed in the "Dashboard" screen
  • Up to 10 metrics can be displayed in a single chart at once
  • "Show previous series" and "Show next series" chart buttons are added for navigation between metric sets for charts with more than 10 metrics
  • Restyled metrics and alerts tables
  • "Manage email profiles" and "Manage alert action profiles" links are displaced from the "Metrics" screen to corresponding dropdown menus
  • SQL Server instances hierarchy pane is removed from the "Metrics" screen
  • The "Back to charts" button is added in "Alerts" and "Metrics" screens for easier navigation back to charts
  • "Select action tag test data" dialog is added for inserting the test values for tags when testing created alert action or custom metric query
  • New alert action tags "{ServerFullName}" and "{DefaultPath}"

Improved quality:

  • 47 bugs and known issues fixed

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February 10, 2015