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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…

Query Insights: Coming soon in Foglight v6.3!

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…

There are a couple easy, free ways to get VMware metrics collected by Foglight for SQL Server. This first part shows the easier way.

When setting up the monitor for SQL Server, you can select (or not) to provide VMware credentials.

Foglight will connect…

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’.…

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’…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Foglight for SQL Server and Foglight for Oracle versions 5.7.5.35.  This release provides the following significant enhancements:

• Performance Investigator (PI) Advisories - Fully automated engine…

I've done a number of posts recently that touch on Foglight administration, customization, or some of the more advanced capabilities of the product.  I felt it was a good time to circle back on some of the more basic use cases that Foglight can help…

If you are someone who is responsible for administering Foglight when used for monitoring SQL Server Instances, you will likely run into the situation where you want certain databases to be neglected from the overall monitoring.  There are going to be those…

Microsoft has evolved their marketing over the past several years to focus on the fact that SQL Server is more than just a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).  You may have noticed, that Microsoft commonly now refers to SQL Server as the SQL…