Database cartridges allow you to monitor your database instances. But you can boost the power of your monitoring by adding one or more of these features.

A Spotlight on Foglight – How Spotlight Users can ease their way into Foglight

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A well-maintained monitoring environment will be healthier and more useful.  Find out some of the key techniques to use, and places to look for help, to bolster the health of Foglight.

Basic Foglight Troubleshooting (when things don't work...)

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Understand how Foglight’s architecture can affect the availability and the performance of your monitoring.

Best Practices for Architecture Configuration & Scalability

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• Embedded vs. External Foglight…

Learn how to interpret and react to various types of alarms and to problematic resource usage by workloads.  Equip yourself to track down causes of degrading performance.

Dashboards for various IT stakeholders

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Many Foglight users wish to produce reports or custom views that visualize important key performance indicators about some of the monitored things in their environment.  Reports can be produced and shared, whether template out-of-the-box reports or custom…

Put to use some of the built-in facilities of Foglight to make your monitoring even more effective and valuable:  registry variables, schedules, services, and the security model.

Find More Time for Innovation and Helping Your Business:  Invoke Variables…

Foglight fires alarms when something being monitored is experiencing a lower- or higher-than-desired level, or “abnormal” behavior.  You can help Foglight understand what “reasonable” levels of performance are, and which problems result in…

Before application users are affected!  That’s when everyone would like to see database performance problems addressed.  However, if you’re like many of the DB2 LUW customers I work with, and how I functioned during my DBA days, you find yourself…

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…

Hello all.   I am a sales engineer at Quest, so I assist customers with Foglight for DB2 installations and evaluations.  People who manage performance of DB2 databases need a view in Foglight listing those SQL statements that have been the largest resource…

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.

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April 15, 2019.....Let’s give a shout out to all those men and women running the Boston Marathon today.

Man, running for that long must be taxing. Taxing…..wait…what day is it again?

So, as my way of giving a nod to long runners,…

A UI Query can be used to add either static or dynamic components to a service definition via the Service Builder dashboard. This in turn offers a
great range of additional things Foglight can do. This post will introduce creating a service definition…

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…

A UI Query can be used as an input to a report. This can simplify and offer a broader range of inputs when running or scheduling a report.

For a refresher on creating UI Queries, this post  covers the basics. 

WCF reports have inputs in order to properly…

In my Introduction to UI Queries  post, the building of a simple query to return all SQL Server Agent Jobs was shown.

Let's back up a step, and take a look at where UI Queries can be used in Foglight. This post will be updated with links as the topics…

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…

The average DBA, managing a cross-platform database environment. Does this even SEEM like a good idea? Hmmm?

On a scale of one to “Bird Box,” how stressful is cross-platform database management? Uh, yeah. It’s full-blown soccer-mom-in-a-pink-sweatsuit…

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.

• "Sweet dreams are made of cheese”. Correct lyric: “Sweet dreams are made of these” from The Eurythmics’…

We haven't added voice command to Foglight yet, but we can still get Foglight to play some tunes.

I setup a small monitoring environment with a Foglight Management Server in a public cloud. I put a local Foglight Agent Manager on my laptop to talk…

PostgreSQL has entered an exciting new chapter with the release of version 11 (10/18/18). This blog highlights some of the version 11 additions and improvements to PostgreSQL.

** The information shared in this blog was largely gathered from the postgresql…

Creating your own dashboard in Foglight is as easy as putting up the Festivus pole.

In this post, a service containing all MySQL instances was created. 

A great feature of Foglight is the ability to create your own custom dashboards and reports. Expand…

Foglight has a robust rules engine for alerting and notification. It's often the case that you can get to the same end zone in Foglight by many different plays.

Using the Service Builder is an easy way to group "things" together. "Things" can be higher…

Hearing you’re getting MySQL is like hearing you’ve been “volunteered” to pet sit your neighbor’s rabid ferret: There’s confusion, mild panic and the frustrating realization that someone else is saving money because you’re doing all the hard work.…