Many organizations have a cloud strategy and one of which is moving your databases to cloud. If you have already/recently moved to AWS and started using AWS RDS Databases for example Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and if you are wondering how to…
Configuring user-defined collections (UDCs) and adding rules to alert upon the result have been covered previously in this blog.
With Oracle and SQL Server, UDCs are stored in the Foglight topology model at the instance level.
I found a special case with…
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…
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In my previous blog posts of Foglight Integration, I wrote how to integrate Foglight and Opsgenie in three parts. Please follow the links below
Foglight for IT OPS - OpsGenie Email-integration
Foglight for IT OPS - OpsGenie RestAPI Integrat…
In Part 2 – I have covered how to forward Foglight alarms to OpsGenie using RestAPI. (please see the link below)
https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-for-it-ops-a-genie-approach-for-foglight-alarm-integration…
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…
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…
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…
I recently worked with a customer on the following use case. They've successfully integrated Active Directory logins with Foglight and wish to match up an AD Group with a group on the Databases dashboard in order to implement User Level Access (ULA).…
By now you may have noticed that I focus on parts of Foglight that you can easily customize in order to solve your specific use cases. We'll build on the previous post on User-Defined Collections (UDC's) in Foglight.
In the previous post, our UDC…
In this post, some tips for working with User-Defined Queries (UDC's) were introduced.
We left off with the idea of creating a custom dashboard showing UDC results from multiple instances.
The Foglight data model is organized with a controlling root…
Hey look, an Amazon Cloud!
To recap,
Part 1 covers 'As A Service' (...aaS) options - https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/are-your-database-implementations-becoming-a-bit-cloudy-part-1-3-part-series-aas-the-world…
These are difficult times we are in now but we will persevere. Hopefully, you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy. Most of us are anxious to get back to some sort of normalcy. But, for now, for many of us, the situation has created the need…
On the Foglight for Databases main dashboard, you can create groupings of instances. These can be used to filter the dashboard, enable easier user-level access, and even allow fine tuning of alarms.
These database groups can also be used in custom dashboards…
Postgres version 12 is here. Did you miss its introduction like me? My excuse is the year-end holidays (what's yours?).
Well, version 13 isn't planned for release until the fall, so there's plenty of time to brush up on v.12
To give the nod…
( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... )
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.
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.
Hold on, grammar and spelling enthusiasts. Already, you might be thinking, did he mean ‘Complementary’ or ‘Complimentary’? The answer? YES. This blog series focuses on additional Oracle monitoring capabilities beyond monitoring the Oracle instance…’complementary…
