Released: Dec 9, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 5.0.3

• Replaced the data retrieval algorithm for Disk avg. read time and Disk avg. write time for improved accuracy and reliability.
• Improved interaction with the Monitored servers tree view list. Clicking the icon or the highlighted area to the left of the icon now takes you to the corresponding overview screen.
• Added new listener statuses on the Availability group overview page, to take into account availability groups with more than one listener.
• Improved the clarity of two Availability group database health alert messages.
• If you copy or share the link to the Analysis Graph and the latest time shown on the graph is the present time, then when the link is opened later, the latest time shown will be the “new” present time (ie the time when the link is opened).
• Bookmark and share Analysis Graph links.
• Open links to the Analysis Graph in a new tab.
• The alerts “Backup overdue” and “Log backup overdue” now take replication into account.
• Support for monitoring availability groups, and a new availability group-specific overview screen.
• Support for authenticating users with Active Directory and setting server-specific restrictions.
• SQL Server 2016 support.
• Now uses .NET Framework 4
• Improved UI
• When you add a cluster, SQL Monitor now monitors all standalone instances on nodes in the cluster, as well as failover cluster instances.
• If you add new instances or nodes to a cluster that you’re already monitoring, SQL Monitor will automatically detect and monitor these additions.