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Foglight for AWS Hosts 6.1.1:

• Full Coverage - Monitors all operating systems and database engines for EC2 and RDS
• Critical Availability and Performance Metrics - In-depth details on system health and performance
• Process Monitoring…

Once Foglight for Databases or Foglight for SQL Server has been installed, you’ll need to tell it what to monitor. Since Foglight doesn’t use any agents installed on the monitored systems, all you have to do is provide Foglight a SQL and Windows…

If you are reading this, chances are you’re considering a 30 day trial of ‘Foglight for Cross Platform Databases’. Before you do, here are a few tips that will help you get a fully functional Foglight installation up and running quickly…

This is the second in a multi-part series on how to leverage Foglight to save money within your IT budgets.  To review the first part, managing monitoring vendor sprawl, check out the post linked here.

This post is going to cover another way to save money…

Way back in 2020, these posts formed the building blocks of using the command line to automate alarm blackouts in Foglight:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 

In Part 3, we looked at adding objects (instances, hosts, etc.) to a service definition, and then having the…

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…

I recently worked with a customer on the following use case. They've successfully integrated Active Directory logins with Foglight and wish to match up an AD Group with a group on the Databases dashboard in order to implement User Level Access (ULA).…

I was trying to come up with a clever title for this post, and even googled "good network port jokes" but they were all blocked.

Badum-Tiss..

For this post, we can refer to this general Foglight architecture diagram.

The "Data Submission" and…

We're often asked how to create an alarm threshold exception for certain types of objects. Using the Databases -> Configure Alarms dashboard, you can change thresholds at the instance level. That works great when there is a 1:1 relation between the instance…

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…

I was reviewing the article 13 SQL Server Best Practices recently and it occurred to me that 3 of the tips could be put in Foglight to continually check that your SQL Server instances are compliant.  Tip #3 in the article suggests that you should reduce…

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…

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.

https://www.quest.com/community/quest/performance…

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,…

Imagine this.... you're hosting a Holiday Party...and the phone rings. You answer and the person on the other end says with a tense voice, "I'm sorry but we will be unable to deliver your beer, wine, and liquor order. The product never shipped."…

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…

Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services.

In this (Part 3) blog, the focus is SQL Server Analysis Services or ‘SSAS’.…

Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services.

In this (Part 1) blog, the focus is SQL Server Integration Services or ‘SSIS’…

Congratulations! You have Foglight installed and it is collecting meaningful performance data. There’s no doubt it is providing a ‘smorgasbord’ of actionable information about your mission-critical environment. Help yourself to delicious servings of baseline…

Database performance monitoring can be a real circus! And with an ever-growing amount of technology platforms to manage, we’ve become the ultimate jugglers.  

Didn’t sign up to be a clown?

Hey, I know. I didn’t, either. But, listen, sometimes…

System administrators find themselves frequently applying required updates to their server hardware, operating system, security packages, or disaster recovery processes in order to maintain system and data integrity.  Such enterprise modifications occasionally…

Spotlight’s vast alarm customization capabilities enables users a wide variety of options.  Setting alarm severity levels, their start and end threshold values, or disabling them completely are just a few. Fortunately, Spotlight performance moni…

I've done a number of posts recently that touch on Foglight administration, customization, or some of the more advanced capabilities of the product.  I felt it was a good time to circle back on some of the more basic use cases that Foglight can help…

We are lucky enough to work with a number of extremely talented and passionate people. Some of our coworkers have been here for a number of years and have some great stories to tell. We wanted to use this interview as an introduction to one such individual…