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We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.0.
Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.0.
Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…
Your database monitoring solution is only as good as its ability to let you know about problems – hopefully before application users and revenue-generating systems are affected. But, too often, monitoring tools get in their own way by firing too many…
The Quest Foglight Evolve Consolidation Advisor is designed to help those involved with cloud management plan future consolidations of existing environments. Those environments could exist of both virtual machines and physical servers/hosts.
The Consolidation…
"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…
This short video reviews Spotlight's navigation and workflow. (3:39)
Are you looking for a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer?
If so, you're in the right place!
This short video reviews Spotlight's architecture and requirements. (2:59)
Installation is simple and takes only a few minutes…
Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especially cloud) and a more complex technical environment…
One of the most common questions I am asked when speaking with evaluators of Foglight is, “Can Foglight integrate with <insert solution here>? …Remedy, ServiceNow, SCOM, Splunk, Teams... The list goes on and on. This inquiry really comes as no…
While your database handles requests from end-users, it starts to consume various resources. With increased number of requests, the database may suffer from resource waits. Excessive wait types and times may lead to performance latencies and degradation…
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…
Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is making it happen. As they take on new database platforms…
The Need for Speed in your Sql Server database
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Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approximately 80-90% of companies today have cloud operations…
Many of us don’t like to ask for directions….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVzRD_nWLQ&t=16s
That said, getting advice, directions, help, or suggestions will provide a faster path to success. My Dad always said, “When in doubt, read…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight for Databases v5.9.7.20, featuring the new Performance Investigator (PI) for Azure SQL DB.
PI is one of Foglight’s most popular features. Its main functionality is multidimensional…
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight.
In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for an instance (eg. dbss_instance.name like '%YOW%').…
In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For our customers using Foglight for Cross Platform Databases…
Quest Software is excited to announce our extended Spotlight® Cloud offering which will deliver deep performance diagnostics to both on-premises and cloud SQL Server environments from a single, innovative SaaS platform.
Two years ago, we…
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the other non-important ones.
Exclusion lists can…
Expand Foglight Monitoring Beyond Infrastructure
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In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, etc.?
A common request is to set a different threshold…
I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal.
If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on the alarm as it happens, and go to the Source tab.
…This use case came in recently - "How can we build an ‘exec’ view that doesn’t include a bunch of junk alarms?"
This is a great case for the Service Builder and Alarm Filters. When you create a service, you can also use that…