In Part 1 – I have covered OpsGenie Email Integration - https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-for-it-ops-a-genie-approach---foglight-email-integration-part-1 .

In Part 2 – let’s see how Foglight’s can forward…

I was helping a customer recently in relation to database monitoring and they asked if Foglight could also help them with their windows OS service monitoring. The answer was yes of course, the OS agent used alongside the DB monitoring can also monitor…

In my previous post Adding Service Emails to Foglight I showed how you could get emails for alerts for a group of monitored objects. But what happens if you are seeing too many alerts in the email and not all of them are relevant?

So, in this post I show…

Foglight has rules which fire alarms on specific events, but it can also fire alarms for a group of objects as part of the service builder configuration. This is important if you have a service, let’s say a mixture of monitored objects, like OS, databases…

Part 3 concludes this series on Foglight and using SQL PI to quickly find, diagnose, and fixed inefficiencies in your database environments. In Part 1, we reviewed workload and poorly performing SQL statements.  In Part 2, we covered the different context…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by…

So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It simply expires after the 30 days. There are a couple…

This post will show how to integrate Foglight alarms into a #slack channel. It is a very easy and quick process. The longest step will likely be to request email app access from your slack admin.

Once you have received approval to use the slack email integration…

One of the powerful features of Foglight for Oracle and Foglight for SQL Server is the ability to enter your own database queries (SQL) and have the Foglight collector execute these and return data. Trent Mera wrote a great blog on this topic called

When monitoring databases for performance, we certainly want to understand things like CPU spikes, memory pressure, I/O latency, and the like. If we see this type of performance, the next step is to take a closer look and attempt to find out what's causing…