WISdom v26.10.0: A Refreshed Look, Clearer Feedback, and Sharper Admin Controls - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
This release refreshes the WISdom look with an updated theme and logo, and delivers clearer UI feedback, stronger administrative controls, and targeted fixes across custom queries, alerts, and monitoring workflows.
Enhancements and New Capabilities
A Refreshed WISdom Look
Throughout WISdom
WISdom has an updated visual theme and a refreshed logo, applied across the application.
Value: A cleaner, more modern, and more consistent experience that better reflects the WISdom brand—without changing where anything lives or how you work.
Manually Trigger Custom Alert Evaluations on Demand
Monitoring › Alert Types
Custom alerts now include a Trigger Evaluation option, letting you run an alert's evaluation on demand rather than waiting for its next scheduled run.
Value: Test and validate infrequent monitoring templates immediately instead of waiting hours or days for the next evaluation cycle. Especially useful when tuning a new alert or confirming a fix, so you can see the result right away.
Tag Clients on the Enterprise Admin Screen
Enterprise Admin
The Enterprise Admin screen now supports client tagging.
Value: Better organization and administration across accounts—particularly for MSPs managing many clients. Group, label, and locate clients faster using tags that match how your team actually works.
Bug Fixes
Fixed: Custom Query Validation No Longer Returns an Error
Creating a custom query no longer fails with a parsing/validation error and application error. This resolves a customer-reported issue.
Value: Build and save custom queries without hitting a validation failure, restoring a reliable custom query creation workflow.
Fixed: Clearer Message When You Exceed Your Subscription Count
The message shown when users exceed their subscription count has been rewritten to be clearer and more accurate, with extraneous warning text removed.
Value: Less confusion when you hit a subscription limit—the message now explains the situation plainly instead of surfacing unnecessary warnings.
Fixed: Delete Resources Hotfix
A hotfix was applied to the Delete Resources function.
Value: Reliable resource deletion in day-to-day administration.
For questions or feedback, contact the WISdom support team.
WISdom v26.9.0
🎷 Noisy Alert Insights, MSP Tag Syncing, and Sub-Client Subscription Visibility — July 9, 2026
This release turns down the noise. A redesigned Alerts Overview and Details surfaces your noisiest alerts and resources at a glance, MSP admins can sync tag groups straight into new client accounts, and MSP subscription details finally get a dedicated home in the Admin Console. We also tuned up database activity grouping and squashed two bugs along the way.
New Features
🔎 Identify Noisy Alerts More Easily
Health › Alerts › Overview
The Alerts Overview page now helps you spot noisy alerts before they bury your team in tickets. Three new summary cards highlight the alert activity generating the most volume over the past 30 days, based on the end date of your selected time range:
- Top Alert Categories — the alert categories generating the most activity
- Noisiest Alerts — specific alerts that may be creating excessive ticket volume
- Top Resources — the resources most frequently associated with alert activity
Click any row in these three cards to jump straight into a filtered Alert list, pre-scoped to that category, alert, or resource so that you can move from overview to investigation in one click.
Value: Spot noisy alerts and high-volume patterns at a glance, cut down on unnecessary ticket churn, and put your investigation time where it counts.
🔄 MSP Tag Groups Can Now Be Synced to New Client Accounts
Admin Console › Tags
MSP users can now create tag groups and tag values that automatically carry over to new client accounts. Mark any tag group with the new Sync to Clients option when creating a new tag group, and it will show a Synced badge in Tag Management. Once created, tag groups and tag values become available to assign to resources in every client account. In the client account, the tag values display an Msp badge to indicate their origin.
The Sync to Clients setting can only be applied when a tag group is created. It cannot be turned on or off afterward. Editing a synced tag group is limited to its name and values.
Value: Standardize tag management across your client base from day one, and skip the manual setup of common tag groups and values on every new account.
Improvements to Existing Features
📊 Group Database Activity in More Useful Ways
Performance › Workload Activity › Activity Overview
Activity Overview now includes three additional grouping options: Login Name, Program Name, and Connection Host Name. Default grouping is unchanged.
Value: Slice database activity by user, application, or connection source to spot usage patterns and investigate activity from whichever angle the situation calls for.
⏱️ Chart Time Widget Added to Performance Metrics Charts
Health › Performance Metrics
Performance Metric charts now include the Chart Time Widget, the same navigation bar already available on other charts across WISdom. This widget did not previously appear on Performance Metrics charts. Use it to move the displayed range backward or forward, jump back to the default 7-day view, or drag directly on the chart to zoom into a specific time period, all without reopening the Date Picker.
Value: Investigate performance metrics in place, without breaking your flow to reopen the Date Picker every time you want to shift the window or zoom in on a spike.
🧾 See Sub-Client Subscription Details for MSP Accounts
Admin Console › Subscription
The Subscription Overview now includes an MSP Subscriptions table for MSP accounts, listing each sub-client's account name, product, edition, license usage, status, and annual cost.
Value: Review subscription usage and product distribution across your entire client base from a single screen, no more checking each client account individually.
🎛️ Updated Column Chooser Icon
All tables that allow column selection
The icon used to open the column chooser has changed from a vertical three-dot (⋮) menu to a dedicated sliders icon, making it easier to tell apart from row-level action menus. This applies to every table across WISdom that supports choosing which columns are displayed.
Value: A distinct, purpose-built icon makes the column chooser easier to spot at a glance and reduces confusion with the three-dot action menu used elsewhere in the same tables.
Bug Fixes
🐞 Fixed: Opportunities Details Export No Longer Fails
Resolved an issue where exporting data from Opportunities › Details would hit a fatal error and prevent the download from completing.
🐞 Fixed: Tag Group Icon Behavior in Admin Console
In the Admin Console › Tags page, the tag icon displayed on the Tag Group row now functions like all other areas of WISdom; click on the icon, and a pop-up will display all the values for the tag group.
WISdom v26.8.0: AI-Powered Query Optimization, Smarter Query Analysis, and a Redesigned Homepage - Wednesday, June 24, 2026
This release introduces AI-generated query optimization—WISdom now automatically tunes your most expensive statements and tells you exactly what to change. It's paired with a fully redesigned Query Analysis experience, a more informative Homepage, more flexible per-database custom queries, and several infrastructure and usability improvements.
Enhancements and New Capabilities
Optimize Your Most Expensive Queries with AI-Generated Recommendations
Query Analysis
WISdom now automatically analyzes the most expensive statements across each monitored server and uses AI to generate specific, query-level tuning recommendations—turning raw performance data into clear, actionable next steps.
- Recommendations tab — A plain-language explanation of what's inefficient in the query and why, alongside an optimized version you can act on.
- Scripts tab — Ready-to-apply scripts the AI suggests, which may include index changes, query rewrites, or other tuning strategies, each with one-click copy.
- Savings column — A dollar indicator flags which queries (on which instances) have a recommendation available, so you can prioritize the highest-impact tuning first.
- On-demand tuning — Request an optimization directly from the query flyout for a statement that doesn't have one yet.
- Credit-based usage — Optimizations draw from a set allotment of credits per client, with usage and remaining credits visible on a Query Analysis KPI card. If the AI returns no suggestions for a requested query, the credit is returned.
Value: Move query tuning from gut instinct to guided action. Instead of manually digging through execution plans and statistics, your team gets prioritized, explained recommendations on the queries that drive the most cost—so even a junior DBA can see what to change, why it matters, and how much it could save.
Redesigned Query Analysis Experience
Query Analysis
The Query Analysis page has been rebuilt to make cost concentration and tuning opportunities easier to find.
- Spend concentration breaks down where cost is concentrated, from the top 10 statements up to the top 1,000, across spend, CPU, and IO.
- Time distribution shows activity across spend, CPU, and IO.
- Clickable cards and new filters let you sort and segment directly—for example, jumping straight to queries with recommendations or to a specific execution range.
- Reworked detail view adds an optimizations count, an updated performance-history graph across multiple metrics, and a cleaner instance breakdown.
- The Cost of Code card now reflects percent of spend—the share of cost from your top statements—rather than percent of executions.
Value: Spend less time hunting for the queries that matter. The redesigned page surfaces where your cost actually lives and routes you straight to the statements worth optimizing.
Run Custom Queries Against Each Database Individually
Admin Console › Custom Queries
Custom queries now support a Per-Database option. When enabled, the query executes against each selected database independently rather than at the server level, and validation automatically runs in the user database instead of defaulting to master (with Azure SQL Database compatibility). Validation includes a database selector, and changing the setting in edit mode requires re-validation.
Value: More precise, database-specific analysis—especially valuable for Azure SQL Database and for isolating checks to a single database even when it spans multiple instances. Build checks that evaluate each database on its own, improving coverage for compliance, diagnostics, and environment-specific monitoring.
A More Informative Homepage
Homepage
The Homepage has been modernized with new at-a-glance health and opportunity context.
- New KPI blocks for Backup & Recovery and High Availability / Disaster Recovery—including databases backed up in the last 24 hours and replicas in sync, with click-through to Availability Groups.
- Total savings potential and the number of code optimizations now surface as KPIs.
- A switch between the Priority Alerts and Opportunities tables, with your choice remembered for next login.
- New cards for Last Accessed (by size, count, or spend) and 5-Year Growth Projection (by size or spend).
- A reorganized Annual Database Spend table, with hover detail showing enterprise contention by category.
- Optional database-level columns for last full, differential, and log backup (available to enable).
Value: A clearer starting point that puts backup posture, availability health, savings potential, and optimization opportunities front and center—so you can spot what needs attention before drilling in.
Review Key Database Metrics at a Glance
Infrastructure › Databases
Infrastructure › Databases now includes summary cards that surface key database metrics up front.
Value: Assess database health, scale, and operational posture without scanning tabular data alone. The cards help you spot notable database-level trends or totals before drilling into the detailed grid.
See Licensing Costs Where You Manage Hosts
Infrastructure › Hosts
The Hosts inventory now surfaces Annual Licensing Spend, giving you a clear view of licensing cost exposure at the host level.
Value: Review infrastructure cost without leaving the host inventory experience. Identify licensing spend drivers, compare host-level cost impact, and prioritize optimization opportunities using financial context alongside infrastructure details.
See Cost and Ownership Alongside Query Activity
Query Stats
Query Stats now displays FinOps Code, connecting each query to its cost, ownership, and financial classification context.
Value: Faster cost attribution directly from query performance views. Review high-impact query activity with the business context needed to route optimization work, identify ownership, and support chargeback or showback workflows.
Resize Columns When Comparing Top Statements
Workload Compare › Top Statements
The Top Statements table now supports column sizing, so you can adjust the table layout while reviewing comparison data.
Value: Improved readability when working with wide or uneven statement data. Expand columns that contain longer values, reduce wasted whitespace, and compare workload details more efficiently without losing context.
Bug Fixes
Fixed: Full Screen Now Opens in Front of the Blocking Details Flyout
The full screen view launched from the Blocking Details flyout now appears correctly instead of opening behind the flyout. This affected the Resources, Wait Statistics, and Application tabs.
Value: Open full screen detail views from blocking analysis without closing the flyout or losing the context you were investigating, restoring the expected full screen workflow during blocking triage.
Fixed: Unavailable Read/Write % No Longer Displays as NULL
The Infrastructure › Tables Details flyout no longer displays NULL for Read/Write % when read/write percentage data is unavailable.
Value: Cleaner, less confusing table detail views. Missing read/write percentage data is now handled consistently with other unavailable values, reducing ambiguity during table analysis and customer reviews.
For questions or feedback, contact the WISdom support team.
WISdom v26.7.0: Reliability Improvements, Enhanced Collections, and Richer Alert Context - Wednesday, June 3, 2026
This release resolves critical export and charting defects, improves multi-instance analysis capabilities, and adds richer context to alert notifications—making your monitoring experience more reliable and operationally efficient.
Enhancements and New Capabilities
📋 Tables — Table Analytics for Infrastructure
Infrastructure › Tables is a new table analytics section that gives you visibility into the size, cost, growth, and access patterns of SQL Server tables across your environment.
- KPI summary cards surface Annual Spend, Savings Opportunity, Cold Data Size, Cold Data Copies, and Annual Growth % at a glance.
- Last Accessed chart categorizes tables into Active (0–30d), Aging (30–90d), Stale (90–180d), and Cold (180–365d) buckets by size, count, or spend.
- 5-Year Growth Projections chart models storage growth trajectories with a Size/Spend toggle to view projections in either dimension.
- The Overview tab shows a table-level grid with Row Count, Size, Read %, Write %, Annual Size Growth, Annual Spend, and Last Accessed.
- The Details tab expands each table across its instances and databases for row-level analysis using the same column set.
Value: Understand exactly where your storage budget is going and where it's headed, without writing a single query. Identify cold and stale tables that drive unnecessary spend, model 5-year growth trajectories in size or cost, and drill from environment-wide totals down to the instance and database levels.
Backup Metadata in Inventory Databases
The Inventory > Databases page now displays last backup time, type, and status with quick-sort and filter support.
Value: Faster compliance verification and backup schedule management without drilling into backup logs. Quickly identify databases with outdated backups, spot backup failures, and ensure your backup strategy is working as expected—all from the inventory screen.
Multi-Chart Saved Views
Save and re-use multi-chart dashboards and templates for consistent analysis across environments.
Value: Build once, use everywhere. Create custom multi-chart dashboards tailored to your specific analysis workflows, then save them for instant access across all your monitored environments. This is especially valuable for teams with standardized performance review processes or recurring analysis patterns—no more manually assembling the same charts every time.
MSP Policy Synchronization
Opportunity policies now sync automatically from MSP tenant to client tenants, reducing manual configuration and policy drift.
Value: Ensure consistent opportunity evaluation across all managed client accounts without manual policy replication. MSPs can now define opportunity policies once at the tenant level and have them automatically applied to all child accounts, eliminating inconsistencies and reducing administrative overhead.
Alert Notifications with Object Tags
Alert payloads now include relevant object tags, providing richer context for routing and triage in external systems.
Value: Smarter alert routing and faster triage in your ticketing, Slack, PagerDuty, or other external systems. Tags included in alert notifications let you automatically route database alerts to the right teams, apply custom workflows, or enrich tickets with environment context—without requiring manual tag lookups or custom mappings.
Critical Bug Fixes
Restored Export Functionality
Exports from Collection > Data Collectors and Resources screens now work reliably, with corrected error handling and UI state management restoring full CSV/Excel export capability.
Value: Get back the ability to export critical collection and resource data for compliance documentation, capacity planning, and infrastructure reporting without encountering errors or failed exports.
Fixed: Performance Chart Zero-Value Rendering
Performance Metric charts for Collection Success now correctly plot zero values, preventing misleading gaps in success-rate trends.
Value: Accurate performance visualization means you won't miss periods of zero activity or failed collection runs. Zero-value rendering is critical for understanding true performance patterns, especially when tracking backup success rates or collection reliability over time.
Fixed: MSP Admin Tenant Switching
MSP Admins and Fortified Admins are no longer redirected to the Onboarding Wizard when switching between client tenants. Users are now returned to their last working context or default dashboard.
Value: Seamless tenant switching means faster navigation between accounts without disruptive redirects. For MSPs managing dozens of client accounts, this eliminates the friction of unexpected onboarding screens and keeps you in your workflow.
Restored: Multi-Instance Filtering in Availability Groups
The Performance > Availability Groups page Instance Filter now supports multi-select, allowing you to compare multiple instances side by side with improved filter chips.
Value: Analyze availability group health across multiple instances simultaneously without toggling filters repeatedly. Compare instance-by-instance performance patterns, replication latency, and failover status in a single view to spot cross-instance trends or anomalies faster.
WISdom v26.6.0: Enhanced Opportunities Management and User Experience Improvements
This release delivers a comprehensive redesign of the Opportunities feature with improved management capabilities, policy controls, and enhanced visibility—making it easier to track, prioritize, and act on optimization recommendations.
IMPORTANT: Post-Update Browser Refresh Required
After this update is deployed, some users may encounter a blank screen when logging in. If this occurs, simply perform a hard refresh of your browser (Ctrl+F5 on Windows, Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) to clear the cached index.html file. This is a one-time action and will not be required for future updates.
Enhanced Opportunities Management
Comprehensive Opportunities Redesign
The Opportunities feature has been completely redesigned across Overview, Details, and Admin interfaces. New capabilities include opportunity policies, improved management workflows, and enhanced details pages that provide better context and actionability for optimization recommendations.
Value: Take control of your optimization workflow with powerful new management capabilities. The redesigned Opportunities Overview gives you better visibility into all optimization recommendations across your environment, while the new Details pages provide richer context to help you understand the impact and effort required for each opportunity. Opportunity Policies let you define rules for which opportunities surface and how they're prioritized—reducing noise and ensuring your team focuses on high-value optimizations that align with your business priorities. The Admin interface gives you centralized control over opportunity management, making it easier to track which recommendations have been addressed, which are in progress, and which should be suppressed based on your operational constraints. This is especially valuable for teams managing hundreds of opportunities across large environments—you can now organize, prioritize, and track optimization work systematically rather than managing it ad-hoc.
Note: Remember to perform a hard browser refresh (Ctrl+F5 or Cmd+Shift+R) if you encounter a blank screen after the update.
WISdom v26.5.0
Interactive Chart Navigation, Custom Alert Scheduling, and Onboarding Improvements — March 31, 2026
This release puts more control in your hands. You can now navigate performance charts forward and backward in time without leaving the screen, set custom evaluation schedules for your own alerts, and onboard new environments through a smoother, more guided setup experience. Several usability improvements round out the release alongside a filter fix in the Alerts module.
New Features
Interactive Chart Time Navigation
All time-based charts across WISdom
All time-based charts in WISdom now include a time navigation toolbar, giving you the ability to move through historical data without adjusting the global date range or leaving the screen. The toolbar is available on every screen that displays a time-series chart — including Performance, Infrastructure, Health, and other modules.
The toolbar appears at the top right of the chart and includes:
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| « (double left arrow) | Move backward by twice the selected range |
| ‹ (single left arrow) | Move backward by the selected range |
| Range selector | Open a dropdown to choose a preset time range (1h, 6h, 12h, 1d, 3d, 7d, 14d, 30d) that will override the displayed time range |
| › (single right arrow) | Move forward by the selected range |
| » (double right arrow) | Move forward by twice the selected range |
| ↺ (reset) | Resets the time range to the last 7 days from the current time |
The chart automatically adjusts the data aggregation interval based on the range you are viewing.
Tip: Use the single arrows to step through previous or next same time range repeatedly. This is useful when comparing workload patterns across multiple time ranges at the same granularity.
Value: Investigate performance events in context without losing your place. Step backward to pinpoint when a spike began, compare the same time window across different days, or move forward to confirm whether an issue has resolved, or select a predefined larger time range, going backward in time from the selected end date. All without resetting your filters or navigating away from the chart.
Improvements to Existing Features
Custom Alert Evaluation Frequencies
Admin Console › Alerts › Custom Alerts
When creating or editing a Custom Alert, you can now choose how frequently WISdom evaluates your alert query. Previously, Custom Alerts ran on a fixed schedule, every minute. You can now select from four evaluation frequencies:
- Minute — Evaluates every minute
- Hour — Evaluates once per hour
- Daily — Evaluates once per day
- Weekly — Evaluates once per week
Value: Match evaluation frequency to what makes sense for the data you are monitoring. A query that tracks daily batch job failures does not need to run every hour or every minute. Setting a longer interval reduces unnecessary processing, reduces resource utilization on the target, and keeps your alert history focused on meaningful events.
Total Record Count on All Tables
All tables across WISdom
Every table in WISdom now displays the total number of records across all pages available. The count appears on the bottom left of the table, to the right of the Rows per page: selector.
Value: Know the full size of any result set at a glance without paging through to the end. Especially useful when applying filters, by confirming immediately whether a tag, group, or search filter is returning the scope you expect.
New Client Onboarding Wizard
First Login › Onboarding Wizard
WISdom now launches a guided onboarding wizard the first time a new client logs in. The wizard walks through the three essential setup steps: installing the first Data Collector, adding database instances, and inviting team members. It includes links to the perspective areas of the WISdom User Guide.
The wizard will continue to appear at login until it has been either completed or skipped. Once dismissed either way, it will not reappear.
Value: New clients get a structured, step-by-step path through first-time setup instead of navigating the Admin Console from scratch. The wizard ensures nothing critical is missed during onboarding, and the persist-until-complete behavior means setup progress is never accidentally lost between sessions.
Tag Filtering Performance Improvement — Inventory Dashboards
Infrastructure › Inventory Dashboards
Tag filtering on Inventory dashboards has been updated to use server-side API filtering. No changes to the filtering experience are visible in the UI.
Value: Tag filters on large environments now apply faster and more reliably, particularly in environments with a high number of tagged resources.
For questions or feedback, contact the WISdom support team.
WISdom v26.4.0: FinOps Process Overview and Enhanced Dashboards - March 18, 2026
This release introduces a comprehensive FinOps Process Overview to track host process utilization and costs, plus delivers updated dashboard designs for improved visibility and usability.
FinOps Process Overview Screen
Host Process Utilization and Cost Breakdown
New FinOps Process Overview screen provides insight into host process utilization across your enterprise, including a detailed breakdown of cost per process.
Value: Understand exactly which processes are consuming resources and driving costs across your infrastructure. The FinOps Process Overview gives you visibility into resource consumption at the process level, enabling you to identify inefficient processes, runaway applications, or unexpected workloads that are inflating your infrastructure costs. This granular cost attribution is critical for chargeback models, optimization prioritization, and identifying which applications or services are the true cost drivers in your environment. Whether you're optimizing cloud spend, planning capacity, or implementing FinOps practices, process-level cost visibility helps you make data-driven decisions about where to focus optimization efforts for maximum financial impact.
Enhanced Dashboard Designs
Modernized Dashboard Experience
Dashboards have been redesigned with updated layouts, improved data visualization, and enhanced usability across DBA, Host, Instance, and Database dashboards.
Value: Get to critical information faster with cleaner layouts and more intuitive data presentation. The updated dashboard designs reduce visual clutter while surfacing the most important metrics and insights prominently. Whether you're conducting daily health checks, investigating performance issues, or presenting environment status to stakeholders, the modernized dashboards make it easier to understand your environment at a glance and identify areas requiring attention.
Critical Fixes
Fixed: Query Analysis Export Missing Objects
Query Analysis exports now correctly include Object data in the exported file.
Value: Complete export data for analysis, reporting, and documentation. When exporting query analysis data for performance reviews, optimization planning, or sharing with team members, you'll now get all the object information you need without manual data compilation or workarounds.## Statistics Management Opportunities — Redesigned
WISdom v26.3.1
Previously, WISdom surfaced a single opportunity called Enable Automatic Statistics Management that evaluated three SQL Server statistics settings together. Because one of those settings — Asynchronous Statistics Update — is off by default across nearly every SQL Server database, the combined opportunity is triggered for almost every database in most environments. That made it noisy and difficult to act on.
In this release, the three settings have been separated into their own independent opportunities. Each opportunity now evaluates a single configuration and fires only when that specific setting warrants your attention.
The Three New Opportunities
| Opportunity | SQL Server Setting | Default | Fires When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Statistics Creation is Disabled | AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS |
ON | The setting is OFF |
| Automatic Statistics Update is Disabled | AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS |
ON | The setting is OFF |
| Asynchronous Statistics Update is Disabled | AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC |
OFF | The setting is OFF |
This is an advisory finding. Because the async setting is off by default, this opportunity is intentionally informational — it highlights databases where enabling async updates may improve query performance. Whether to act on it depends on your workload. See the guidance below.
Automatic Statistics Creation is Disabled
SQL Server automatically creates statistics on columns used in query predicates when AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS is enabled. This helps the query optimizer build efficient execution plans without requiring manual statistics management.
When this setting is off, the optimizer must work without statistics on unindexed columns, which can lead to inaccurate row estimates and poor query plans.
When is it intentionally disabled?
Some environments disable auto-create statistics by design:
- Highly controlled environments where a DBA manages all statistics manually to enforce strict standards
- Regulatory or compliance environments that restrict automatic database changes
- Very large databases with frequent ad-hoc queries, where uncontrolled statistics creation adds overhead
- Read-only or static databases where data never changes, and statistics never become stale
If you see this opportunity and the setting is intentionally off, it can be safely dismissed for those databases.
Automatic Statistics Update is Disabled
SQL Server updates statistics automatically when enough data changes occur. Before SQL Server 2016, this happened only after 20% of the rows plus 500 additional rows were modified. Starting in SQL Server 2016, a new algorithm lowers the threshold for large tables, allowing their statistics to update sooner. Keeping statistics current helps the optimizer generate accurate execution plans as data changes.
When this setting is off, statistics become stale over time. Stale statistics lead to suboptimal query plans, which can cause performance degradation that is difficult to diagnose.
When is it intentionally disabled?
Auto update is on by default and should remain on for most databases. There are specific scenarios where DBAs choose to disable it:
- Highly predictable or static workloads where data distributions rarely change
- Large ETL processes where statistics are temporarily disabled during bulk loads and then manually refreshed afterward
- Real-time or latency-sensitive systems (such as trading platforms) where the overhead of a statistics update during query compilation is unacceptable
- Very large databases with heavy write workloads where automatic updates cause blocking or plan recompilations at critical times
- Databases using partitioned tables with incremental statistics, where auto-update can trigger full table scans instead of partition-level updates
In most cases where Auto Update causes performance problems, enabling Asynchronous Statistics Update is the better solution — it removes the compilation delay without sacrificing freshness. Disabling Auto Update entirely should be a last resort.
Asynchronous Statistics Update is Disabled
By default, when SQL Server detects that statistics are stale, it then updates them synchronously, causing the query to wait for the statistics update to complete before the execution plan is compiled. In most environments, this delay is imperceptible. In high-concurrency or latency-sensitive environments, it can cause noticeable waits.
When AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC is enabled, SQL Server compiles and executes the query immediately using the existing statistics, then updates the statistics in a background thread. Future queries benefit from the refreshed statistics.
When should you consider enabling it?
- Large tables in OLTP or high-concurrency environments where synchronous updates introduce blocking or query latency
- Latency-sensitive workloads where query compile time needs to be consistent and predictable
- Highly transactional systems with frequent inserts, updates, and deletes, where statistics updates are frequent and the synchronous wait adds up
Auto Update Statistics must be enabled for Async to have any effect. Enabling Async on a database where Auto Update is disabled has no impact.
Async statistics updates mean queries may occasionally compile against slightly stale statistics. In most workloads, the resulting plans are still good enough. In environments where data distributions change dramatically — such as after a bulk load or a table truncation — synchronous updates ensure the freshest statistics are used. Always test before changing this setting in production.
WISdom v26.3.0: System Alerts Integration and Reporting - March 4, 2026
This release integrates critical system-level alerts across WISdom, introduces a powerful new reporting framework, and enhances WISdom Advisor with contextual guidance—ensuring you never miss important alerts and can automate reporting workflows.
System Alerts Integration
System-Level Alerts in Main Alerts Screen and DBA Dashboard
System alerts are now fully integrated into both the main Alerts screen and the DBA Dashboard Top Alerts view, alongside your existing database alerts. New Collector filtering and Resource Type columns provide complete visibility into system-level issues.
Value: Never miss critical system alerts that could impact your entire monitoring infrastructure. Previously, system-level alerts—like collector connectivity issues, configuration problems, or infrastructure failures—weren't surfaced alongside your database alerts, creating blind spots during incident response. Now, when a collector goes offline or encounters issues, you'll see it in the same alert views you're already monitoring. The new Collector filter and Resource Type column help you quickly identify whether an alert relates to an Instance, Host, or Collector, streamlining troubleshooting when system-level issues cascade into database performance problems. This unified alert view means you have a complete picture of your environment's health in one place.
WISdom Reporting (Beta)
Automated Report Configuration and Delivery
WISdom Reporting beta is now available, allowing you to configure report templates and delivery schedules directly within the UI. Design your reports, set delivery schedules, and automate distribution—all from the new Reports section.
Value: Eliminate manual report generation and stop copy-pasting data into spreadsheets for weekly status updates. Configure report templates once, schedule automated delivery to stakeholders, and let WISdom handle the rest. Whether it's executive summaries for leadership, compliance reports for auditors, or detailed performance reports for technical teams, automated reporting saves hours of manual work while ensuring consistency and timeliness. This is especially valuable for recurring reports like monthly capacity reviews, weekly alert summaries, or quarterly performance trends—set it up once and never miss a delivery deadline.
WISdom Advisor Enhancements
Contextual Prompt Suggestions
WISdom Advisor now offers suggested prompts based on the page you're viewing, helping you understand the various ways you can interact with Advisor for context-specific insights.
Value: Stop wondering what to ask Advisor. Context-aware prompt suggestions guide you to the most relevant and powerful queries for each screen you're viewing. When you're on the Query Statistics page, see prompts tailored to query analysis. On the Blocking screen, get suggestions for investigating blocking chains. This guided experience helps both new users discover Advisor's capabilities and experienced users leverage advanced features they might not have explored. Less time figuring out how to phrase questions, more time getting actionable answers.
Enhanced User Guide Support
Improved integration with WISdom's user guide documentation provides more accurate and comprehensive answers when you ask Advisor about product features and capabilities.
Value: Get better answers to "how-to" questions without leaving the application. When you ask Advisor how to configure an alert, interpret a metric, or use a specific feature, the enhanced user guide integration delivers more precise, documentation-backed responses. This reduces the need to search external documentation or contact support for feature clarification.
WISdom Connect Enhancement
Alert Details Link in Webhook Payload
WISdom Connect webhooks now include a direct link to alert details as part of the payload.
Value: Jump straight from webhook notifications to the relevant WISdom alert details page. The included link in the webhook payload takes you directly to the full alert context in WISdom—no manual navigation or searching required. This accelerates incident response by reducing the time between webhook notification and investigation, especially valuable during critical incidents when every second counts.
WISdom v26.2.0: Smarter Navigation, Storage Planning, and Enhanced Visibility - February 18, 2026
This release delivers powerful new planning tools, smarter contextual navigation, and key usability improvements that make it easier to manage your environment and act on insights faster.
Storage Planner
Automated Storage Capacity Projections
The new WISdom Storage Planner automatically projects storage capacity using all the data WISdom has collected about your environment, making capacity planning faster and more accurate than ever.
Value: Stop guessing when you'll run out of storage. The Storage Planner uses your actual historical growth patterns to project future capacity needs, giving you data-driven forecasts you can act on before storage becomes a crisis. Whether you're planning infrastructure purchases, cloud migrations, or simply trying to avoid unexpected outages, the Storage Planner gives you the visibility to plan with confidence. This is especially valuable when presenting capacity plans to leadership or finance teams—you can back your recommendations with real data from your own environment.
"What Happened?" Status Banner
Instant Environment Health at a Glance
The "What Happened?" screen now features a dynamic status banner that immediately communicates the health of your environment. The banner displays green for healthy states, yellow for warnings, and red for critical issues—each with a concise summary of what's happening and when it occurred.
Value: Know the state of your environment the moment you open "What Happened?" without scanning through data to piece together the picture. A green "All Good" banner with the time since the last change tells you everything is running smoothly. A critical red banner immediately surfaces the number of issues with precise timestamps—"2 critical alerts at 14:32. 1 deadlock at 15:01"—so you can jump straight to resolution. This contextual health summary serves both DBAs who need technical detail and decision-makers who need a quick status read.
Smarter Contextual Navigation
Availability Groups Performance History Link
The Availability Groups screen now consolidates Primary and Secondary Replica tables into a single unified Replicas table with a direct History button, linking each replica to its Performance Metrics screen filtered to the selected instance and current date range.
Value: Move from availability group health to performance history in one click, without manually navigating and re-applying filters. The consolidated Replicas table reduces visual complexity while adding direct access to the performance data you need for deeper investigation.
Database Connections Performance Metrics Link
Both the DB Connections Overview and Details screens now include a direct link to Performance Metrics using the User Connections → Transactions template, auto-filtered to the relevant instance.
Value: Instantly jump from connection data to performance metrics without losing context. When investigating connection spikes or unusual transaction patterns, moving between screens no longer means re-applying filters or losing your place—the link carries your context directly to the right performance view.
SSO PKCE Authentication Support
More Secure SSO Configuration
SSO setup now supports PKCE as an authentication flow option, eliminating the need to store client credentials in your SSO configuration.
Value: Improve your security posture by removing stored client credentials that can expire or be compromised. PKCE is a modern, more secure authentication flow that simplifies SSO configuration while reducing risk—particularly valuable for organizations with strict security requirements or frequent credential rotation policies.
Redesigned Subscription Page
Clear Subscription and License Visibility
The Subscription page has been fully redesigned with a dashboard-style summary showing Subscription Period, Active Products, Total Licenses, and Annual Total in a clean, easy-to-read layout.
Value: Instantly understand your WISdom investment at a glance. Account owners and authorized users can quickly review subscription details, license counts, and annual costs without navigating multiple screens or contacting support. The new design makes it easier to track renewal dates, manage license usage, and export subscription data for internal reporting or budget planning.
Data Visualization Improvements
Null vs. Zero Distinction in Histograms
Histograms now visually distinguish between null values and zero values, providing a more accurate representation of your data.
Value: Understand the difference between "no activity occurred" and "data was not collected" at a glance. This distinction is critical when troubleshooting gaps in monitoring coverage or analyzing workload patterns—you'll no longer confuse missing data with genuine zero-activity periods.
Query Statistics Minimum 1-Hour Interval
Query Statistics now requires a minimum 1-hour time selection to ensure at least one aggregation interval is always included in results.
Value: Eliminate confusing empty result sets caused by selecting time ranges that fall between hourly aggregations. The enforced minimum ensures you always get meaningful data when querying performance statistics, reducing troubleshooting time and confusion.
Additional Improvements
Maintenance Window Name and Status Updates
Improved maintenance window management with updated name and status handling for more accurate tracking.
Value: Better visibility into maintenance window state and naming, reducing confusion when managing scheduled maintenance across multiple instances.
Critical Fixes
Fixed: Infrastructure Database Sorting
Database and Instance columns in the Infrastructure screen now sort correctly by name in both ascending and descending order.
Value: Quickly find specific databases or instances in large environments without workarounds. Accurate sorting means less time scrolling and more time acting on the data you need.
Fixed: Opportunities Display Truncation
Opportunity names are no longer truncated, and multiple impact values now display correctly in the Impact column.
Value: See complete opportunity information without having to drill into each record. Full opportunity names and accurate impact data help you prioritize optimization work more effectively.
WISdom v26.1.0: Custom Alerts, Enhanced Data Export, User Experience Improvements - February 4, 2026
This release focuses on making WISdom work smarter for you with support for custom alert queries, AI-powered data exports, extended graphing capabilities, and streamlined authentication—plus critical fixes based on your feedback.
🔍 Custom Alerts
SQL Query-Based Custom Alerts and Improved Viewing
New "Custom Monitoring Queries" allow you to create alerts based on your own custom SQL queries that integrate seamlessly into WISdom's existing robust alerting solution. Write SQL queries to build your alerts around, giving you full control over exactly what WISdom monitors. This powerful feature includes added safeguards to prevent destructive mistakes. In addition, we've improved how you view and filter on alerts for easier management.
Value: Supercharge WISdom alerting to support any of your specific business needs. Instead of relying solely on predefined alert types, you can now write custom SQL queries that define exactly what to monitor and when to alert. This opens up virtually unlimited alerting possibilities—whether it's tracking specific application behavior, monitoring business-critical data conditions, or flagging environment-specific configurations that matter to your organization. Your custom alerts work alongside WISdom's proven system alerts, giving you the best of both worlds—out-of-the-box monitoring for common scenarios plus the flexibility to monitor anything unique to your environment.
🤖 WISdom Advisor Export Capabilities
Export to Excel or JSON
WISdom Advisor can now export data directly to Excel or JSON formats based on the data type. Simply ask Advisor "Export my list of databases to a file" or a similar command and get instant, formatted exports.
Value: Transform AI-generated insights into shareable reports without manual copy-paste work. When Advisor surfaces a list of problematic queries, resource-constrained servers, or configuration issues, export that data directly to Excel for distribution to your team or further analysis. This bridges the gap between AI insights and actionable reports, making it easier to share Advisor's findings with stakeholders who need formatted data rather than conversational responses.
🌙 Dark Mode
Night Mode Theme
WISdom now offers a dark mode theme option, providing a comfortable viewing experience in low-light environments.
Value: Reduce eye strain during late-night incident response or extended monitoring sessions. Dark mode is especially valuable for NOC environments, after-hours on-call work, or DBAs who prefer darker interfaces. Toggle between light and dark themes based on your environment and preferences, making WISdom more comfortable to use throughout your entire workday.
🔐 Streamlined Authentication
Simplified Login Experience
WISdom no longer forces re-authentication on every login page visit. Authentication timing is now controlled by your identity provider settings.
Value: Reduce login friction while maintaining security through your organization's SSO policies. If your identity provider session is still valid, you'll get straight to work instead of repeatedly entering credentials. This respects your organization's established authentication policies while eliminating unnecessary login prompts that slow down your workflow.
🔔 Critical Notification Banner
System-Wide Alert Banner
New notification banner appears across all screens when critical system notifications are issued. The banner is dismissible once per message.
Value: Stay informed about critical system events, maintenance windows, or important announcements without checking email or dedicated status pages. The banner ensures you see time-sensitive information regardless of which screen you're working in, while the dismissible design prevents notification fatigue once you've acknowledged the message.
⏰ Daylight Saving Time Support for Silencing Windows
DST-Aware Silencing Windows
One-time silencing windows now correctly handle Daylight Saving Time transitions by applying the appropriate UTC offset for the specified date.
Value: Schedule maintenance windows across DST transitions without worrying about alert suppression starting or ending at the wrong time. This is especially critical for overnight maintenance windows scheduled near DST changes—your alerts will be silenced for exactly the time period you intended, regardless of time zone shifts.
📑 Enhanced Index Flyout
Updated Index Interface
Updated index flyout interface with improved layout and data presentation.
Value: Get better visibility into index usage patterns, storage consumption, and optimization opportunities with a more intuitive interface. The enhanced flyout makes it easier to assess whether indexes are serving their purpose or consuming resources without value.
🔌 WISdom Connect Enhancement
List Users Operation Support
WISdom Connect now supports the List Users operation, allowing you to programmatically query for a list of users under a given account.
Value: Greater flexibility for integrating WISdom user management into your existing workflows and tools. Whether you're building custom dashboards, automating user provisioning, or syncing user data across platforms, the ListUsers operation gives you direct access to account user information through the API—no manual lookups required. This is especially valuable for enterprise and MSP environments managing multiple accounts and teams.
🐛 Critical Fixes
Fixed: Opportunities Not Refreshing When Switching Clients
Opportunities screen now properly refreshes when switching between clients, eliminating stale data display.
Value: Accurate opportunity data for each client without page refreshes or workarounds. When managing multiple clients, you can now trust that the optimization recommendations you're viewing match the selected client.
Fixed: Agent Job Export Missing Last Run Time
Job Scheduled exports now include the Last Run Time column that was previously missing despite being visible in the UI.
Value: Complete export data for compliance documentation, capacity planning, or troubleshooting job scheduling issues. The exported data now matches what you see on screen, eliminating the need for manual data compilation.
WISdom v26.0.0: New Navigation and Sharing Capabilities
🚀 NEW Navigation Structure
Complete Navigation Redesign
WISdom's navigation has been reorganized around workflows and role-based needs.
New Navigation Structure:
- Dashboards - Quick access to DBA, Host, Instance, and Database dashboards
- Planners - Renamed from Calculators for clarity
- Opportunities - Elevated to top level for faster access
- Performance - Default expanded section with "What Happened?" plus Workload Activity, Query Analysis, Blocking, Deadlocks, and more
- Health - Renamed from Monitoring, housing Alerts, Resource Health, and Performance Metrics
- Infrastructure - Renamed from Inventory for clearer categorization
- Security - Renamed from Compliance with clearer labels like "Audit Events" and "Logins and Users"
- Admin Console - Streamlined settings with Collector Health nested under Collection
Value: The new structure mirrors how database professionals work. Performance features are grouped together and expanded by default. The elevated "What Happened?" feature provides one-click access to root cause analysis. Role-based organization helps DBAs, infrastructure teams, and security professionals navigate to their most-used features intuitively.
🔗 "Share This Page" Collaboration Feature
Share Exact Views with One Click
New "Share" button on major dashboard and overview pages lets you share your exact view—including all filters, date ranges, and selections—via copy link or email.
Available on: Environment overviews, all Inventory pages, Database overviews, Monitoring (Alerts and Resource Health), and all Compliance overview pages.
Value: Share performance issues or patterns instantly with colleagues who will see precisely what you're seeing with all filters and context preserved. This streamlines incident response, knowledge sharing during handoffs, and collaborative troubleshooting. Documentation becomes as simple as sharing a link.
🔍 Enhanced Filtering and Job Organization
Improved Filtering Process with Job Tagging
New filtering framework provides faster, more intuitive filtering across all WISdom screens, including job filtering and tagging capabilities.
Value: Filter complex datasets more efficiently with improved performance. Enhanced job filtering and tagging let you organize SQL Agent jobs by custom categories—business function, criticality, maintenance windows, or any organizational scheme. Quickly isolate ETL jobs, backup jobs, maintenance tasks, or business-critical processes without memorizing job names. Especially valuable for large environments with hundreds of jobs.
🎯 Enhanced Analysis Features
Lead Blocker Always on Top
Blocking Details flyout now automatically sorts to display the Lead Blocker as the top row, with remaining records sorted by Session ID.
Value: Instantly identify the root cause of blocking chains without scrolling through pages of blocked processes. The lead blocker is now always at the top where you need it, accelerating blocking investigations in complex environments.
Blocking Drill-Through in New Tab
Blocking investigations now open in new tabs, preserving your original context.
Value: Investigate multiple blocking chains simultaneously without losing your place. Keep your overview screen open while drilling into specific blocking scenarios in separate tabs.
Evaluation Frequency in Opportunities
Opportunity flyouts now display how frequently each opportunity is evaluated.
Value: Understand the recency and reliability of opportunity recommendations. Know whether you're looking at real-time data or periodic assessments to prioritize actions with confidence.
🤖 WISdom Advisor Improvements
More Concise and Contextual Responses
WISdom Advisor AI Agent now delivers tighter, more relevant answers tailored to your specific context.
Value: Get information faster without verbose explanations. Improved response quality means less time interpreting AI outputs and more time taking action. Advisor better understands what you're trying to accomplish and provides actionable guidance.
📊 User Experience Enhancements
New Standardized Date Picker
Modern date picker control rolled out across all screens for improved usability and consistency.
Value: Select date ranges more intuitively with a consistent experience across WISdom. The new control handles complex date selections more elegantly and reduces errors.
Auto-Sizing Object Names in Query Statistics
Instance and Database columns now intelligently size to display full names, with manual adjustments persisting across sessions.
Value: WISdom remembers your column width preferences and automatically accommodates longer names with smart space allocation. See full context at a glance without manual adjustments on every screen visit.
🐛 Fixes
Fixed: Tag Selector Scrolling
Tag selector in Admin Console now properly scrolls when lists extend beyond screen boundaries, particularly for large tag groups like Production.
Value: Access all tags regardless of list size. Browse and select tags naturally, even in large, nested tag hierarchies without workarounds.
WISdom v25.31.0: Enhanced Analysis Tools and Improved Workflows
This release expands AI-powered insights, introduces a new schema change cost planner, and delivers improvements to alerts, exports, and job monitoring based on your feedback.
🤖 "Ask Advisor" Expansion
AI Assistant Now Available in Key Flyouts
WISdom Advisor's "Ask Advisor" is now integrated into Activity, Query Statistics, Blocking, and Deadlocks flyouts, providing contextual AI-powered explanations.
Value: Get instant AI-powered explanations of data without leaving your investigation workflow. When you're drilling into a problematic query, blocking chain, or deadlock scenario, click on the corresponding "Ask Advisor" image to have it explain what you're seeing in plain language, suggest potential causes, and recommend next steps. This contextual intelligence accelerates troubleshooting by eliminating the need to interpret complex metrics manually or search through documentation—the answers come to you in the context of your specific investigation.
Calculators are now called Planners
Navigation Name Change
To better represent our growing list of capabilities around "Calculators", we've renamed those calculators to Planners.
💰 Schema Change Cost Planner
New Tool for Estimating Schema Change Impact
A comprehensive cost planner helps you estimate the financial impact of database schema changes by selecting instances, databases, tables, and actions, then configuring cost parameters.
Value: Make informed decisions about schema changes by understanding their true cost before implementation. Whether you're adding indexes, modifying tables, or restructuring databases, the calculator provides cost projections based on your specific environment and workload patterns. This is especially valuable when presenting change requests to leadership or finance teams—you can now quantify the expected resource consumption and associated costs of proposed schema modifications, helping you prioritize changes that deliver the best ROI.
📊 Jobs Anomaly Detection
Machine Learning for Job Runtime Analysis
Jobs screen now includes anomaly detection for job runtime, automatically identifying outliers and potential issues.
Value: Catch job performance degradation early by automatically spotting when jobs run significantly longer than their historical patterns. Instead of manually monitoring job durations or discovering issues through user complaints, WISdom flags anomalous job behavior proactively. This helps you identify deteriorating query plans, growing data volumes, or resource contention issues before they impact business processes—especially critical for overnight batch jobs or scheduled maintenance windows where delays cascade into business hours.
📋 Enhanced Export Capabilities
Resource Health Export
New export functionality for the Resource Health screen, providing comprehensive health score data across all instances.
Value: Export complete resource health data including host and instance health scores, CPU/memory/storage pressure percentages, and contention metrics for reporting, trending analysis, or capacity planning presentations. This is particularly valuable for infrastructure reviews, executive reporting, or documenting baseline performance before major changes.
Improved Alert Details Export
Alert Details exports now include Duration (displayed as days + time), Message column, and properly formatted Alert Categories.
Value: Get complete alert data for incident reports, compliance documentation, or trend analysis without manual data cleanup. The fixed Alert Categories display and added duration/message fields provide the complete context needed for post-incident reviews or sharing alert information with external teams.
🔍 Alert Management Improvements
Filter Alerts by Alert ID
Users can now filter alerts by specific Alert ID on the Alert page, allowing you to quickly view individual alerts referenced from alert notification emails.
Value: Quickly locate specific alerts when working from incident tickets, email notifications, or handoff notes. Instead of scrolling through alert lists or using multiple filters, jump directly to the alert you need by ID—streamlining incident response and reducing time spent searching.
Fixed: Alert Status Filter in Views Alert Status filters now work correctly when included in saved Views, properly honoring Open/Closed status selections alongside other filter criteria.
Value: Your saved alert views now work as expected, maintaining alert status filters when applied. Teams that rely on views for daily alert triage—such as "Open Critical Alerts" or "Closed Alerts This Week"—can now trust that their views will display the correct alert set every time.