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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…
Foglight has a retention policy for the data that is collected from the monitored environment. For SQL Server, the default is "medium" or 90 days. If an object (eg. a database) is removed from the monitored instance, Foglight will still keep a record…
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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…
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Foglight for AWS Hosts 6.1.1:
Once Foglight for Databases or Foglight for SQL Server has been installed, you’ll need to tell it what to monitor. Since Foglight doesn’t use any agents installed on the monitored systems, all you have to do is provide Foglight a SQL and Windows…
If you are reading this, chances are you’re considering a 30 day trial of ‘Foglight for Cross Platform Databases’. Before you do, here are a few tips that will help you get a fully functional Foglight installation up and running quickly…
Quick Start Guide to Foglight (5)
You’ve just been handed access to Foglight. Now what? These basic sessions will help any NEW Foglight administrator or user get familiar with the tool. We suggest you start here in order to understand the fundamentals…
As part of most any database monitoring software evaluation, it includes comparing that software to similar solutions. Logically, it often means doing head-to-head comparisons to database tools that come bundled with that particular DBMS. Regularly, I…
Foglight has rules which fire alarms on specific events, but it can also fire alarms for a group of objects as part of the service builder configuration. This is important if you have a service, let’s say a mixture of monitored objects, like OS, databases…
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the other non-important ones.
When using the Service…
Foglight ships with a rich set of pre-configured rules to alert you when issues arise with your databases.
The default action is to put an alarm message on the dashboards within Foglight. Email notifications aren't enabled by default - but it's an easy…
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…
Database performance issues are a major contributor to the application slowdowns which we all face every day.
DBAs, developers and IT professionals have a daunting task of deciphering the large number of factors that contribute to database wait time.…
In this post, we looked at how to create an alarm template via the Databases dashboard.
If you followed the steps outlined, you would've ended up in the Alarm Templates dashboard with a new template.
You can also get to Alarm Templates directly from…
With the release of Foglight version 6, alarm management has been simplified with the use of alarm templates.
You can access Alarm Templates directly from the left-hand panel in the new UI. However, if you've upgraded from a previous version, it helps…
Postgres v. 14 snuck up on us and was released about a month ago.
The community continues to kill it with advancements in innovation.
Have a look at these frighteningly powerful enhancements and additions.
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PostgreSQL 14 now supports the syntax…
This is the second in a multi-part series on how to leverage Foglight to save money within your IT budgets. To review the first part, managing monitoring vendor sprawl, check out the post linked here.
This post is going to cover another way to save money…
For over two decades, as a Database Sales Engineer, I have provided technical demonstrations either in-person, online, or in a recorded format. It takes a particular honed skillset to accurately distill technical information and position solutions in…
We're often asked how to create an alarm threshold exception for certain types of objects. Using the Databases -> Configure Alarms dashboard, you can change thresholds at the instance level. That works great when there is a 1:1 relation between the instance…
I was trying to come up with a clever title for this post, and even googled "good network port jokes" but they were all blocked.
Badum-Tiss..
For this post, we can refer to this general Foglight architecture diagram.
The "Data Submission" and…
As part of one’s Database Management strategy, one of the primary tasks at hand is to keep queries running at peak performance. One of the most impactful ways to do this is to identify ‘Missing Indexes’.
Simply put, Indexes can allow…
"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…
One of the most common questions I am asked when speaking with evaluators of Foglight is, “Can Foglight integrate with <insert solution here>? …Remedy, ServiceNow, SCOM, Splunk, Teams... The list goes on and on. This inquiry really comes as no…