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We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.3.
Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.3.
Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…
As organizations rely more on data to make critical business decisions, ensuring that their databases are running efficiently becomes increasingly important. A database slowdown or crash can result in a significant…
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With more on your plate than ever, cross-platform database monitoring is critical. You can’t afford any database downtime or performance degradation. Foglight helps you to avoid risk and stress, spend more time…
We often get asked by customers how can they integrate Foglight with other products they own to streamline their daily operations. Based on my recent conversation with one of my customers and their IT Ops team, I had the opportunity to explore IT Ops tool…
Part 2 of this series will show you how to tune the queries you found by using Workload Analysis (see Part 1). Additionally, we'll look at the different 'Context' dimensions to help you quickly focus on the right problem.
2. SQL Statements…
"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…
Is there a database skills gap for complex hybrid IT environments?
In research published by Unisphere Research in 2020, the database professionals they surveyed responded that 84% had two or more database platforms in use and 31% had four or more. That…
Quest is very excited to announce the General Availability of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise v13.3.
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise v13.3 is focused on a major aspect of SQL Server tuning - analyzing execution plans.
An execution plan…
As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud…
Few things are as frustrating for database professionals as the inability to track down the root cause of a performance issue. And when you’re under pressure to keep everything running smoothly, manually and inefficiently struggling to understand the…
In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For our customers using Foglight for Cross Platform Databases…
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The conversation continues...
Jim: " Tell me more! "
Kim: " Foglight is Quest's award-winning cross-DBMS platform monitoring and diagnostics solution. Think of Foglight as a monitoring platform. It uses what they…
I normally write about specific aspects of the solutions that I support, but I thought I'd try something a little different today. For those of you that don't know, I'm a sales engineer supporting Quest's Database Performance Monitorin…
What has become a typical theme in the arena of Information Technology are the concerns around managing costs associated with these systems. Whether it be the capital and operating expenditures associated with the data center, or the ongoing costs…
Foglight can help identify SQL Tuning candidates?
Yes!
Foglight can tune the SQL?
With seamless integration with Quest’s SQL Optimizer, yes!
OK, let’s stick a fork in this....
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What is SQL Optimizer?
Caution…
Many of our Foglight customers have begun innovating newer applications that require storage of massive amounts of data but remain flexible in terms of its data structure. Cassandra is a NoSQL database platform that offers scalability and high availability…
When dealing with large number of connections, the power and advantage of PowerShell API can be leveraged to manage, automate, and administer Spotlight configuration. The efficiency gains obtained through command line access to automate configuration…
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We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.
With Foglight for Oracle, invalid objects are monitored and alerted upon for each schema. While it's possible to exclude schema's from monitoring, this can be tedious if you only have a handful of schema's that need to be monitored.
There…
Spotlight 13.0 introduces a brand new feature of managing access to monitored connections at the user level. It provides the ability to assign or deny a user access to a set of connections that have been configured to be monitored in Spotlight.
The need…
What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics?
Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglight for Postgres.
Administration options are available…
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. These monitoring options come included at no additional cost and illustrate how broad and complete Foglight is as an Oracle monitoring solution…
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle.
Part 1 of the blog covers Foglight’s monitoring for Oracle’s Data Guard.
A UI Query can be used as a shortcut to building a custom dashboard or report. This can save time and frustration by publishing either frequently accessed or hard to find data in an easy to use spot.
In my Introduction to UI Queries post, the building of…