• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Expand your SQL Server monitoring coverage to include your BI stack with Foglight (3-Part Series) Part 3 – SQL Server Analysis Services (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 3) blog, the focus is SQL Server Analysis Services or ‘SSAS’.…

  • Expand your SQL Server monitoring coverage to include your BI stack with Foglight (3-Part Series) Part 1 – SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

    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’…

  • Don’t Worry About Your (Con)figure, Have The PI !

    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…

  • The Juggling Act of Modern DBAs

    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…

  • Foglight for Databases (SQL Server and Oracle): New Release - Version 5.7.5.35

    We are pleased to announce the general availability of Foglight for SQL Server and Foglight for Oracle versions 5.7.5.35.  This release provides the following significant enhancements:

    • Performance Investigator (PI) Advisories - Fully automated engine…