Release Notes

WISdom v26.15.0

🎯 10 New Wait Stats Checks on “What Happened?” and Redesigned Audit Events and Server Logins Screens - October 20, 2026

This release adds 10 wait stats checks to the What Happened? screen. They run automatically on every analysis and pinpoint problems in the time range you select, based on the wait stats SQL Server recorded. Select a wait stats check and the Activity tab shows only the queries that experienced those wait types. The release also delivers complete redesigns of Audit Events and Server Logins, 10 new Opportunities for database file layout and SQL Server Agent alerting, total row counts on Process tables, and fixes for customer-reported issues with filters, sorting, and Performance Metrics charts.

Scheduled Upgrade Completed Successfully

Our scheduled WISdom platform upgrade was completed successfully on Friday evening, October 16, 2026, at approximately 10:00 pm ET. The upgrade went smoothly, with no issues and no data loss. Thank you for your continued support.

New Features

⏱️ 10 New Wait Stats Checks on “What Happened?”

Wait stats are how SQL Server tells you what a workload is waiting on, and they are the first place experienced DBAs look when something slows down. What Happened? now reads them for you. Ten new checks are always applied, so there is nothing to turn on or configure. When a wait type climbs during the time range you selected, the matching check fires and points you to the minutes affected.

The 10 new checks are:

Increase in Blocking Waits
Increase in Backup Waits
Increase in Replication Waits
Increase in CPU Waits
Increase in Parallelism Waits
Increase in Memory Waits
Increase in Disk Waits
Increase in Availability Groups Waits
Increase in External Scripts Waits
Increase in Network Waits

See exactly which queries were waiting

When you open a wait stats check, What Happened? opens the Activity tab with Filter to this finding selected. Active Processes then lists only the queries that experienced the wait types included in that check. Select Show all to see every active process in the same minute.

Open Diagnostic checks to see every check, which ones fired during the selected time range, and how many minutes each one fired (for example, 1 of 60 min). Fired checks are listed at the top, and clear checks stay grouped by category below.

The new checks work from the wait stats available for the selected time. If SQL Server recorded no meaningful waits of a type in that range, the check shows Clear.

🛡️ Redesigned Audit Events

Security › Audit Events has been redesigned from top to bottom to help you see what changed in your environment and who changed it. Previously, Overview was a flat list of instances, databases, SQL statements, and counts, and Details required you to select an instance first. Now Overview summarizes your audit activity by category, and Details lists every event without selecting an instance first. Views, Tag, Filters, Reset, the date range, and Share remain in the toolbar on both tabs.

Audit Events is not turned on by default. To start collecting audit events, ask Fortified support to configure it for your environment. For setup details, see Audit Events.

Overview

Five audit category KPIs – Login activity, Access changes, Security changes, Policy changes, and Configuration changes. Each KPI has its own color, and the same color marks that category everywhere on the screen. Select a KPI to apply that audit category as a filter.
Top cards – Top Instances, Audit categories, and Top logins rank where the events came from. Select an instance or an audit category to apply it as a filter.
Quick filters – All events, Login activity, Access changes, Security changes, Policy changes, and Configuration changes narrow the table with one click.
All audit events table – One row per audit category, event type, and object type, with Instances, Databases, Logins, Events, and Last seen. Sort any column, use the column selector to show or hide columns, search the table, and page through the results. The footer shows Rows per page and Total rows.

Details

Every event in one list – Audit category, Date, Event type, Object type, Instance, Database, Login, and Message for each event. No instance selection is required.
KPIs that follow your filters – The five audit category KPIs on Details update to reflect the filters you select.

Event details

Select a row, or select the action icon on the row and choose View Details, to open the event flyout. It shows the Audit category, Date and time, Event type, Object type, Login, Instance, and Database, along with the full Message for the event, with a button to copy it.

Filters

The same Filters menu is now available on Overview and Details. Filter by Instance, Database, Audit Category, Event Type, and Object Type. Each filter shows how many values are available, and you can search within the menu. On Overview, filters update the Top Instances, Audit categories, and Top logins cards and the table. The KPI totals at the top of Overview stay at the full total for the selected date range.

🔐 Redesigned Server Logins

Security › Server Logins has been rebuilt to show how your SQL Server logins are configured, and what has changed, without reading through a grid of role columns. Previously, Overview was a table of counts per instance, with a column for every server role. Now Overview opens with KPIs and charts, and Details gives you every login on an instance with its status, roles, and connections. Views, Tag, Filters, Reset, the date range, and Share remain in the toolbar on both tabs.

Overview

Five KPIs – Sysadmin, Elevated, not sysadmin, Password policy off, Disabled logins, and Dropped logins.
Three charts – Password policy shows SQL logins with the policy off or enforced. Password expiration shows logins where expiration is not enforced or is enforced. Elevated access shows logins with sysadmin, elevated (but not sysadmin), or no server role. Each shows the count and the percentage of logins.
Quick filters – All instances, Sysadmin, Elevated, not sysadmin, Password policy off, Disabled, and Dropped narrow the list with one click.
Logins by instance table – One row per instance, with Logins, Sysadmin, Elevated, not sysadmin, Policy off, Expiration off, Disabled, Dropped, and Last change. Sort any column, use the column selector to show or hide columns, and search the table.

Details

Select an instance to open Details. It shows the same KPIs, charts, and quick filters, scoped to that instance, followed by a Logins table.

Logins table – Login, Type, Status, Server roles, Resources connected, Password policy, Default database, Created, and Modified.
Quick filters – All Logins, Sysadmin, Elevated, not sysadmin, Password policy off, Disabled, and Dropped.

Login details

Select a login, or select the action icon on its row, to open the Server Login flyout. The Login tab shows the Login name, Login type, Instances, Default database, Default language, Status, Created, Modified, Password last reset, Last seen, the SID (with a button to copy it), and the login’s Roles. The Connections tab brings in the connection data from Performance › Database Connections, so you can see how the login connects without leaving the screen.

Filters

On Overview, filter by Instance, Is Disabled, Is Expired, and Is Weak Password. On Details, you can also filter by Login, Login Type, and Is Deleted.

🔍 10 New Opportunities

WISdom now checks your environment for 10 additional opportunities. They appear on the Opportunities screen with a recommended resolution, and you can assign an Owner, Status, and Priority to each one just like existing opportunities.

Remember, you can customize your opportunities and opportunity thresholds through the opportunity policies in the Admin Console.

Database Files and Storage

Database Files Located on the C Drive – Data or log files located on the C drive.
TempDB Has More Than 16 Data Files – A tempdb configuration with more than 16 data files.
Uneven Data File Sizes or Growth Settings Within a Filegroup – Files in the same filegroup with different sizes or growth settings.
Database Files Located on Network File Shares – Database files stored on a network share.
Database Files Configured for Percentage-Based Autogrowth – Files set to grow by a percentage instead of a fixed size.

SQL Server Agent Alerting

No SQL Server Agent Operators Configured or Enabled – No operator is available to receive Agent notifications.
No SQL Server Agent Alerts for Severity 19–25 Errors – No Agent alert is configured for severity 19–25 errors.
No SQL Server Agent Alerts Configured for Database Corruption – No Agent alert is configured for database corruption.
SQL Server Agent Alerts Without Operator Notification or Job Response – Alerts that fire but notify no one and run no job.
No SQL Server Agent Failsafe Operator Configured – No failsafe operator is configured.

Improvements to Existing Features

🔗 Jump from Database Connections to Server Logins

On Performance › Database Connections › Details, the action icon on each connection row now includes View Security Details. Select it to jump straight to the Server Login screen for the login on that connection, along with View Details and View Activity, which were already available.

🔢 Total Row Counts on Process Tables

The tables on the Process Overview and Details pages now show a total row count at the bottom, next to Rows per page, so you can see how many rows match your current view.

📊 Filters and Sorting Follow a Hierarchical Order

Impact filters on Opportunities and the Last Accessed filters on Infrastructure › Databases and Tables now appear in hierarchical order instead of alphabetical order.

Bug Fixes

🐞 Fixed: Resource Type Filter on Admin Console Resources

On Admin Console › Collection › Resources, selecting Host or Instance in the Resource Type filter now returns the matching resources. Previously, applying either filter displayed no data.

🐞 Fixed: Opportunities By Instance Applies Your Filters

When you filter by an Opportunity on Opportunities › Overview, choose By Instance, and then select a specific instance, the filters you chose are now applied to the instance page. Previously, the overview numbers reflected the filter but the instance page did not.

🐞 Fixed: Impact Sort Order

Sorting by Impact on Opportunities pages, including the page you reach from By Instance, now sorts by impact level. Previously, it sorted alphabetically.

🐞 Fixed: Blank Charts in Performance Metrics

In Performance Metrics, selecting Add Chart and then canceling the flyout no longer adds an empty chart to the page. Previously, each cancel added another blank chart.

WISdom v26.14.0

🎯 Automated Alert Noise Reduction and a Redesigned Data Collectors Screen — October 6, 2026

This release focuses on two things: cutting the alert noise that buries real issues, and seeing exactly where data collection is healthy or stuck. The new alert noise tuning finds noisy alerts, forecasts how many alerts a different tolerance would avoid, and applies the change for you. The redesigned Data Collectors screen tracks your data from collection to availability. This release also adds 13 new Opportunities focused on security, backup, and database integrity, lets you choose the Jira issue type for alert tickets, and fixes customer-reported issues with Infrastructure exports, Monitoring Profiles, and the Client selector.

New Features

🔕 Reduce Alert Noise with Automated Tolerance Tuning

Alerts that fire too often train teams to ignore them. WISdom now scores how noisy each alert is, tests other tolerance options against your own stored metrics, and shows how many alerts each option would have avoided. Pick the option you want, choose where it applies, and WISdom creates the rule for you. No more trial-and-error threshold changes.

What’s new on Health › Alerts › Overview

Five summary cards at the top of the screen show where your alerts stand and how much noise you can remove:

Card	What It Shows
Critical	Critical alerts out of the total (e.g., 1 of total 190).
Total alerts	All alerts, broken down by severity (e.g., 190, 130 warning, 59 information).
Noisy alerts	Alerts that have been noisy over the last 30 days.
Noise reduction	How many alerts have a noise reduction opportunity available.
Potentially avoided	How many firings a month you would avoid if every available noise reduction were applied.

Below the cards, three panels summarize your alert activity:

Top Alert Categories – Alert counts by category, such as Replication, Availability, and Latency.
Noisiest Alerts – The alert types that fired most often. A noise reduction icon appears next to any alert type that has a noise reduction available.
Top Resources – The resources with the most alerts. Switch between Critical and Warning to change the count.

The Top Alerts table adds a Noise Reduction column. Alerts that can be tuned show an Available badge with the estimated reduction (e.g., Available 81%). The table header shows how many alerts in the list have a noise reduction available (e.g., 1 with noise reduction). Use the column selector in the table header to show or hide columns. WISdom remembers your choices.

What the Noise Reduction values mean

Available – A different threshold would reduce how often this alert fires. The percentage shows the estimated reduction.
Optimized – A tuned threshold is already in place.
Blank – No change is recommended.

An alert can appear in Noisiest Alerts without a noise reduction available. This happens when no threshold change would reduce the noise.

Tune a noisy alert

Open an alert with Noise reduction marked Available by selecting View noise and tune from its row menu. The Noise panel shows the alert name and its current threshold, then walks you through two choices: how much to reduce the noise, and where the change applies.

Choose a noise reduction option. WISdom offers three options, each with a different threshold and a different reduction in alerts. The table lists each option’s Threshold, how many times it would have Fired (30 days), and the Change as a percentage. Select one option. You can also drag the slider between More noise and Less noise.
Review the comparison. The top of the panel shows the impact of your choice:
- Current – How many times the alert fired over the past 30 days.
- Selected – How many times it would have fired with the option you chose, along with the option’s threshold.
- Change – The percentage reduction and how many fewer alerts you would have received in 30 days.
Enter a rule name. Rule Name is required. Use a name that identifies the resource or object, so the rule is easy to find later.
Choose where the rule applies. Select one:
- Resource – The resource and every object on it.
- Resource and object – Only the specific object that triggered this alert on this resource.
- Profile – Every resource in the profile you choose from the Select list.
Click Apply.

You can select only one option and one Apply to target at a time. To apply a different threshold elsewhere, create another rule.

The new rule appears on Admin Console › Monitoring › Alert Rules, which lists each Rule, its Alert type, what it Applies to, and when it was Last modified.

Potentially avoided is a forecast based on the last 30 days of history. With less than 30 days of history, the figures are labeled preliminary.

500-Level Deep Dive: How Tuning Decisions Are Made

Replay, not guesswork – Each tolerance option is replayed against the stored metric samples for that alert, not just the alerts that already fired. This shows how the option would have behaved across every collection, including values that came close to the threshold.
Rule precedence – A Resource and object rule always overrides a Resource rule on the same resource, regardless of which was created first.
Alert type defaults – Changing an alert type’s default tolerance doesn’t change any resource that has its own rule.

📡 Redesigned Data Collectors Screen

The Admin Console › Collection › Data Collectors screen now shows the health of your entire collection process in one place, from the resources being monitored to the data being available in WISdom.

Summary cards – Four cards at the top show Collectors running, Collection errors, Resources monitored, and Last check-in.
Collection pipeline – Follow your data through four stages: Resources, Collectors, Ingest, and Available. Between each stage, WISdom shows the latency for Communication, Upload, and Processing. The End to end value shows the slowest of the three. A stage that is moving data is animated, and a stalled stage holds still, so you can spot a delay at a glance.
Collectors table – New Comm, Upload, Processing, and Alerts columns show how each collector is performing. Click a collector’s error count to go straight to its errors.
Collection errors view – Switch the view from Collectors to Collection errors to see every error across all collectors in one list.
Collector details – Click a collector to open its details. The Properties tab shows the collection pipeline for that collector, along with its Collector, Host, Version, and Status. The Collection errors tab lists each error’s Server, Since, Platform, Error type, and Description.
Error details – Click an error to see the affected resource, the full error message, and Possible solutions. The details open in the same panel, and Back returns you to the error list.

The Collector Health subtab has been retired. Its information is now part of the Data Collectors screen.

🔍 13 New Opportunities for Security, Backup, and Database Integrity

WISdom now checks your environment for 13 additional opportunities. They appear on the Opportunities screen with a recommended resolution, and you can assign an Owner, Status, and Priority to each one just like existing opportunities.

Security and Permissions

Orphaned Database Users – Database users that are no longer mapped to a server login.
SQL Logins Without Password Policy Enforcement – SQL logins that don’t follow the Windows password policy for complexity and lockout.
SQL Logins Without Password Expiration – SQL logins whose passwords never expire.
Non-Default Server-Level Permission Grants – Server-level permissions granted beyond SQL Server’s defaults.
Users with db_owner Role Membership – Database users with full control of a database through the db_owner role.
SQL Server Agent Jobs Owned by User Accounts – Agent jobs owned by an individual’s login. These jobs can fail if that person’s account is disabled or removed.
Stored Procedures Configured to Run at Startup – Stored procedures that run automatically every time SQL Server starts.

Backup and Recovery

Encryption Certificate Backup Is Stale – Encryption certificates that haven’t been backed up recently. Without a current certificate backup, encrypted databases and their backups can’t be restored to another server.
Transaction Log Backups Are Routed to NUL – Log backups written to the NUL device. The backup is discarded, and point-in-time recovery is no longer possible.
Backups Written to the Same Storage as Data or Log Files – Backups stored on the same drive as the database files. A single storage failure can take out both the database and its backups.
MSDB Backup History Retention Is Outside the Recommended Range – Backup history in msdb kept for too short a time to support recovery, or so long that msdb grows unnecessarily.
Database Corruption Detected in Backup History – Backups that SQL Server flagged as damaged in the backup history.

Database Integrity

Database CHECKDB Execution Is Stale – Databases that haven’t had a recent DBCC CHECKDB integrity check, which allows corruption to go undetected.

🎫 Choose the Jira Issue Type for Alert Tickets

When WISdom creates Jira tickets from alerts, you can now choose which issue type to use, including custom issue types configured in your Jira project. Alert tickets land in the workflow your team already uses instead of a default issue type.

For setup details, see Notification Channels.

Improvements to Existing Features

🧩 Platform Column on the Monitoring Profiles Resource List

The resource list on Monitoring › Profiles now includes a Platform column next to Resource Name, so you can tell hosts and instances apart within a profile. The Search field searches both columns, and the export includes both columns for every assigned resource. Platform values match the Platform column on Admin Console › Collection › Resources.

🔌 Job Enabled Status Added to the API

The WISdom API now returns whether each SQL Server Agent job is enabled or disabled. If you pull alerts through the API, you can filter out job failures from disabled jobs.

API details are available on the Fortified WISdom Connect API page. For connection setup, see WISdom Connect.

Bug Fixes

🐞 Fixed: Monitoring Profiles Resource List Shows Every Assigned Resource

On Monitoring › Profiles, the resource list now displays every resource assigned to a profile. Previously, once a standalone host was assigned to any profile, the list showed blank rows for every profile, including profiles with only instances. The Instance Name column is now named Resource Name because a profile can contain both hosts and instances.

🐞 Fixed: Infrastructure Exports Include Every Available Column

Exports from Infrastructure › Hosts, Instances, and Databases now include every column in the column picker, whether or not it’s turned on in your current view. Previously, columns such as Environment, Annual Licensing Spend, Annual Compute Spend, Created, First Seen, and Last Access Category were missing. Export column headers now match the labels in the grid, and all Infrastructure exports are named Infrastructure - so it’s clear where the file came from.

🐞 Fixed: Client Selector Stays Open When You Click Its Search Bar

The Client selector in the left navigation now stays open when you click inside its search bar. Previously, clicking the search bar closed the list, so you had to reopen it and start typing without clicking.

🐞 Fixed: Cloud Migration Planner Accepts Red Flag Buffering Changes

Changing the Red Flag Buffering value in the Cloud Migration Planner no longer causes an error when generating the assessment.

The header now resizes correctly when you zoom in on your browser or snap the window to part of the screen. Previously, the upper-right part of the header was cut off, which could hide the avatar icon and some tabs.

WISdom v26.13.0

🎯 Standalone Host Monitoring, Clearer Chart Labels, and Complete Exports — September 22, 2026

This release introduces the ability to monitor a Windows host on its own, without a SQL Server instance! It also makes custom alert setup quicker to correct, adds API support for silencing windows, clarifies what chart pressure overlays measure, and fixes customer-reported issues with Tables exports and the Client drop-down.

New Features

🖥️ Monitor Standalone Windows Hosts

You can now add a Windows host to WISdom even when it has no SQL Server instances on it, such as an application server, file server, or other server that supports your database environment. WISdom collects host-level metrics for it through WMI and Windows Performance Counters. The host appears on the Host Dashboard, Health > Alerts, Health > Resource Health, Health > Performance Metrics, Infrastructure › Hosts, and Infrastructure Processes. Additionally, the host can be added to Monitoring > Profiles, so it can trigger configured host alerts..

To add one or many, go to Admin Console › Collection › Resources, click Add Resource(s), and set Resource type to Host. Host mode shows only the fields a host needs: the hosts list, Data Collector, Monitoring Profile, Credentials, Cost Management, and Tags. The Instance Settings tab is hidden.

A standalone host uses one instance subscription until a host subscription is purchased.

This release also updates two related screens:

Resources grid – A new Platform column, plus Resource type and Platform filters, let you view hosts and instances separately.
Monitoring Profiles – You can now assign hosts to a monitoring profile, not just instances. The profile’s resource list adds Type and Platform columns and filters, and the add picker lists both hosts and instances.

🔌 Manage Silencing Windows Through the API

Silencing windows can now be created and managed through the WISdom APIs. Teams that schedule maintenance through their own change management or automation tools can suppress alerts from those tools directly, without re-entering each window in WISdom. Windows created through the API behave the same as windows created on the Silencing Windows page.

Additional information about setting up an API connection may be found in the User Guide > WISdom Connect, with the specific API calls detailed on the Fortified WISdom Connect API page.

Improvements to Existing Features

🏷️ Database Pressure Is Now Instance Pressure

The red shading overlay on charts is now labeled Instance Pressure instead of Database Pressure. The overlay has always measured pressure at the instance level, and the old label led viewers to ask which database was affected. The new name matches what the overlay shows.

You’ll see the updated label in the Controls or Display menu on charts that display the overlays, like the Performance Metrics charts and Workload Activity. Only the label changed. The toggle, the shading logic, and the underlying data work exactly as before.

🗑️ Delete Tolerances While Creating a Custom Alert

You can now delete a tolerance on the Create Custom Alert Type screen, not just edit it. If you add a tolerance by mistake, remove it and start fresh without leaving the screen. This matches the delete option already available on the Edit Alert Type screen.

For setup details, see Creating a Custom Alert.

Bug Fixes

🐞 Fixed: Tables Export Now Includes the Full Filtered Result Set

On Infrastructure › Tables, exporting now includes every row that matches your applied filters. Previously, the export only included the rows visible on the current page, so a page size of 15 produced a file with 15 records. Exports from Tables now behave the same as exports from the other Infrastructure pages.

🐞 Fixed: Client Drop-Down Opens on the First Click

The Client drop-down now opens on the first click no matter how far down the page you’ve scrolled. Previously, clicking it on a scrolled page returned you to the top of the screen, and you had to click again to open the list.

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 an 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

Tip

Select 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 select.

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.

Sync to Clients Cannot Be Changed Later

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.

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.

In the Admin Console › Tags page, the tag icon displayed on the Tag Group row now functions like all other areas of WISdom; select 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 select-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

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

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

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 drop-down to choose a preset time range (1h, 6h, 12h, 1d, 3d, 7d, 14d, 30d) that overrides 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

Asynchronous Statistics Update is Disabled

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

Tip:

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

Note:

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.

Important:

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.

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.

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.

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 select, 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

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.

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.

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’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 go to their most-used features intuitively.

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, select 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.

Release Notes

WISdom v26.15.0

Scheduled Upgrade Completed Successfully

New Features

⏱️ 10 New Wait Stats Checks on “What Happened?”

🛡️ Redesigned Audit Events

🔐 Redesigned Server Logins

🔍 10 New Opportunities

Improvements to Existing Features

🔗 Jump from Database Connections to Server Logins

🔢 Total Row Counts on Process Tables

📊 Filters and Sorting Follow a Hierarchical Order

Bug Fixes

🐞 Fixed: Resource Type Filter on Admin Console Resources

🐞 Fixed: Opportunities By Instance Applies Your Filters

🐞 Fixed: Impact Sort Order

🐞 Fixed: Blank Charts in Performance Metrics

Related Topics

WISdom v26.14.0

New Features

🔕 Reduce Alert Noise with Automated Tolerance Tuning

500-Level Deep Dive: How Tuning Decisions Are Made

📡 Redesigned Data Collectors Screen

🔍 13 New Opportunities for Security, Backup, and Database Integrity

🎫 Choose the Jira Issue Type for Alert Tickets

Improvements to Existing Features

🧩 Platform Column on the Monitoring Profiles Resource List

🔌 Job Enabled Status Added to the API

Bug Fixes

🐞 Fixed: Monitoring Profiles Resource List Shows Every Assigned Resource

🐞 Fixed: Infrastructure Exports Include Every Available Column

🐞 Fixed: Client Selector Stays Open When You Click Its Search Bar

🐞 Fixed: Cloud Migration Planner Accepts Red Flag Buffering Changes

🐞 Fixed: Header Scales at High Browser Zoom and Narrow Windows

Related Topics

WISdom v26.13.0

New Features

🖥️ Monitor Standalone Windows Hosts

🔌 Manage Silencing Windows Through the API

Improvements to Existing Features

🏷️ Database Pressure Is Now Instance Pressure

🗑️ Delete Tolerances While Creating a Custom Alert

Bug Fixes

🐞 Fixed: Tables Export Now Includes the Full Filtered Result Set

🐞 Fixed: Client Drop-Down Opens on the First Click

Related Topics

WISdom v26.10.0

Enhancements and new capabilities

A refreshed WISdom look

Manually trigger custom Alert evaluations on demand

Tag clients on the enterprise Admin screen

Bug fixes

Fixed: custom Query validation no longer returns an error

Fixed: clearer message when you exceed your Subscription count

Fixed: Delete Resources hotfix

WISdom v26.9.0

🎷 Noisy Alert insights, MSP Tag syncing, and sub-client Subscription visibility, july 9, 2026

New features

🔎 Identify noisy Alerts more easily

🔄 MSP Tag groups can now be synced to new client accounts

Improvements to existing features

📊 Group database Activity in more useful ways

⏱️ Chart time widget added to Performance metrics charts

🧾 See sub-client Subscription Details for MSP accounts

🎛️ Updated column chooser icon

Bug fixes

🐞 Fixed: Opportunities Details export no longer fails

🐞 Fixed: Tag group icon behavior in Admin Console

WISdom v26.8.0: AI-powered Query optimization, smarter Query Analysis, and a redesigned homepage - wednesday, june 24, 2026

Enhancements and new capabilities

Optimize your most expensive Queries with AI-generated recommendations

Redesigned Query Analysis experience

Run custom Queries against each database individually

A more informative homepage

Review key database metrics at a glance

See licensing costs where you manage Hosts

See Cost and ownership alongside Query Activity

Resize columns when comparing top statements

Bug fixes

Fixed: full screen now opens in front of the Blocking Details flyout