Performance Monitoring

A customer asked how to implement and email that indicates an alarm has been cleared. In Foglight, there are typically several ways to do that.  In this post, we'll look at creating a new rule that fires when an alarm event occurs. The event we'...

This blog discusses different risks to successfully managing multiple database platforms. Foglight can help reduce risks in these hybrid IT operations.

The Need for Speed in your Sql Server database View webcast here This webcast covered: Learn how to effectively use wait types to quickly identify bottlenecks and get clues on the best tuning approach Quickly identify inefficient operations through …

We are proud to announce the general availability of Foglight Evolve. This release brings significant product enhancements that many of our customers requested.

SQL tuning is challenging and time consuming. Janis Griffin, Oracle Ace shares her top manual and automated tips for tuning SQL statements.

Challenges with costs, resource allocations, and performance monitoring for cloud migrations are discussed. Foglight can help reduce risks in these hybrid IT operations.

Many of us don’t like to ask for directions…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVzRD_nWLQ&t=16s That said, getting advice, directions, help, or suggestions will provide a faster path to success. My Dad always said, “When in d...

Way back in 2020, these posts formed the building blocks of using the command line to automate alarm blackouts in Foglight: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3  In Part 3, we looked at adding objects (instances, hosts, etc.) to a service definition, and then h...

Foglight for Databases helps reduce database skills gaps in hybrid IT environments while diminishing operational risks.

We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight for Databases v5.9.7.20, featuring the new Performance Investigator (PI) for Azure SQL DB. Background PI is one of Foglight’s most popular features. Its main functionality is ...

Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight.  In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for an instance (eg. dbss_instance.name like '%Y...

In this blog post you will learn new features for analyzing execution plans with Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise.