Performance Monitoring

OK, who took my Postgres tile? Where is my MySQL tile? (Click on images to enlarge) If you recently updated your Foglight license file, you may need to take a few additional administrative steps. 1. Navigate to Administration > Cartridges (Cart...

While Foglight for SQL Server offers capabilities that go above and beyond most SQL Server monitoring products in the industry, Query Performance Monitoring is certainly a strength of the product that customers get significant of value out of.&n...

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. Exclusion lists can be c…

(Click images to enlarge.) 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 ...

On Thursday, September 24, 2020, Postgres version 13 was officially released. As opposed to a release full of "new features", Postgres 13 largely improves upon existing functionality. The Release Notes can be found here -> https://w...

Expand Foglight Monitoring Beyond Infrastructure View the webcast here This webcast covered: How to use script agents, User Defined Collections and the REST API to monitor things like freezer temperatures, soil moisture levels or the air conditionin…

Foglight for Databases now includes enhancements to the Performance Investigator Repository, new alarms, FIPS compliance & a quick start tour.

In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, etc.? A common request is to set a different t...

I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal. If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on the alarm as it happens, and go to the Sourc...

This use case came in recently - "How can we build an ‘exec’ view that doesn’t include a bunch of junk alarms?"  This is a great case for the Service Builder and Alarm Filters. When you create a service, you can also use that…

In this post, alarms were configured to only fire upon the instances contained within a Database Group. These groups are created and managed from the Databases dashboard, but underneath, they are really service definitions. Now, what if we are using …

We often get requests to only fire certain alarms (eg. hours since last log backup) on a specific set of instances (or other objects, like jobs, databases, etc.). One way to do that is to leverage the Database Groupings and use those to limit the ala…