• Getting the "All Clear" from Foglight

    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'll focus…

  • Automating Alarm Blackouts in Foglight

    There are two ways to manage blackouts in Foglight - from the UI and from the command line. The options are generally the same. The command line provides us the ability to automate the blackout by using the command line utility in our maintenance scripts…

  • Groovy, groovier, grooviest: Getting metrics collected by Foglight

    What if you could get a list of all metrics and observations collected by Foglight, and have the ability to filter/sort by cartridge and topology type? That would be groovy.

    My colleague developed the script below. To run it, navigate to Administration…

  • My Foglight License Expired - Now What?

    In some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator.

    Start by navigating to the Administration dashboard, and select Licenses. 

    Next select "Install…