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…
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…
In 12c, Oracle introduced support for a new architecture - multi-tenant. As such, the Container database (or CDB) was introduced. Think of the CDB as the 'super database'. This multi-tenant container database allows for many 'sub-databases'. These are…
Think of a UI Query as a shortcut to data that you can use in a report, dashboard, service definition, etc. This post will show how to get started building queries.
The example today will be to get a list of all SQL Server Agent Jobs, regardless of the…
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.
Imagine this.... you're hosting a Holiday Party...and the phone rings. You answer and the person on the other end says with a tense voice, "I'm sorry but we will be unable to deliver your beer, wine, and liquor order. The product never shipped."…
Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by…
To compare is to measure, estimate, or make note of two or more “ things’ “ similarities and/or differences. It helps us better understand the items. A versus B. Sometimes it is done to learn which one is ‘better’. Other times, it is to determine those…
We’re excited to announce that with Spotlight version 12.3, the Plan Visualizer feature now includes several new enhancements. In my last blog, I covered the Plan Visualizer feature included in version 12.0 which provides a display view of the estimated…
Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services.
In this (Part 3) blog, the focus is SQL Server Analysis Services or ‘SSAS’.…
Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services.
In this (Part 2) blog, the focus is SQL Server Reporting Services or ‘SSRS’.…
Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues. The Workload Analyzer of Spotlight Cloud is a very robust query evaluator tool…
Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services.
In this (Part 1) blog, the focus is SQL Server Integration Services or ‘SSIS’…
Congratulations! You have Foglight installed and it is collecting meaningful performance data. There’s no doubt it is providing a ‘smorgasbord’ of actionable information about your mission-critical environment. Help yourself to delicious servings of baseline…