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…

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…

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…