• Announcing Quest®︎ Foglight®︎ Cloud General Availability!

    Embrace the Future: Foglight Cloud Now Available for Your IT Revolution

    We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…

  • Announcing Quest®︎ Foglight®︎ v6.3 General Availability

    Background

    We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.3.

    Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…

  • Saving Money with Foglight: Part 2 - Enterprise Resource Management

    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…

  • Series Finale - Automating Foglight Blackouts

    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…

  • Getting the "All Clear" from Foglight

    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…

  • Exploring User Level Access for Databases

    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).…

  • Foglight Database Ports

    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…

  • How to reduce alert notification noise with database monitoring tool

    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…

  • Can you believe this Administration?!

    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…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 3 (of 3) – CRS and Exadata

    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…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 2 – ASM

    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…

  • Identify Long Running Queries with Foglight

    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,…

  • Monitor Postgres Disk Space Usage with Foglight

    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: Back to Basics - Diagnosing Blocking

    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…

  • The Importance of Performance Benchmarking to Decrease Op Ex

     Throughout my career I have conversed with many IT leaders that have adopted the practice of measuring the performance of their technology assets by monitoring key performance indicators (or KPIs).  Most of them will tell you that there needs to be some…

  • Application Monitoring, where should I start? What are the colors that Van Gogh used?

    It’s been amazing how much creativity and innovation is out there. Customers have been teaching me a lot over the last 20 plus years. Two identical applications behave differently for two different clients and their different customers and in their different…