What Monitored Objects can be assigned to a group?

Phil_Fact0r

I've always just assigned servers to groups, but I read in the documentation that you can't assign instances to groups but you can assign a cluster. you can, of course assign a group.  What other restrictions are there?  

Alex B

Hi @Phil_Fact0r ,

That is true, you are only able to add the highest level of an entity to a group (i.e. a standalone server or a cluster).  You cannot add the nodes of the cluster to different groups nor can you add SQL instances to groups independently of the entities that own them. 

Groups by top level
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But entities have multiple nodes and SQL instances
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So, as you can see, a cluster with three nodes and SQL instances on those nodes will all be grouped based on the group that the cluster is in - "1 - Production" in this case.

This is something we've been asked for previously and there is a Uservoice here for grouping by instance rather than server: https://sqlmonitor.uservoice.com/forums/91743-suggestions/suggestions/34545691-group-instances-not-servers

I hope that helps clarify, please do vote on the Uservoice if this is something you would like to see!

Kind regards,
Alex