In 2023, online sales on Cyber Monday were approximately 12.4 BILLION dollars. This trend is not likely to reverse course. More of us are shopping online more regularly. We purchase items online, in part, because it is simply more convenient. So naturally, when we see a message similar to the one above, we’re annoyed. But consider the company perspective. Every minute the company’s website is down, it equates to lost revenue. I spoke with a DBA for a national home improvement retailer who shared that their e-commerce site went down for just over an hour and cost them upwards of a million dollars. Another popular report.... Amazon.com went down for about 40 minutes and it was estimated to have lost about $120,000 per minute or about $4.8 million. I guess Benjamin Franklin was right when he said, “Time is Money”.
There are many reasons why websites go down. A common one is that the web servers become overloaded when site traffic spikes. This causes CPU, memory, and database queries to be overutilized, resulting in server latency or crashing.
Proactive database and infrastructure monitoring and diagnostics can dramatically mitigate these risks of downtime and money lost.
Two primary objectives for any IT Administrator or DBA are to maintain systems with maximum Availability and peak Performance.
Quest’s Foglight for Databases provides visual alerts for these common issues. Is the server down? Are my Always On Availability Groups available? Is there a CPU spike? Memory pressure? I/O Contention? Inefficient or long-running queries? Be made aware of these issues before or as they occur.
What’s more is that Foglight can be configured to send you an email or a text to give you that critical ‘heads-up’. You can even have Foglight set up to kick off an escalation process and/or run corrective scripts.
DBA Team -
A critical alarm has been generated for instance _________ on Host __________
Alarm: DBSS - Hours Since Last Log Backup
Severity: Critical
Message: Hours Since Last Log Backup – The ________ database has not been log backed up for 25 hours
Created on: Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 6:06pm ET
Additionally, with its patented IntelliProfile baselining engine, Foglight learns and keeps track of ‘normal’ activity and can alert you if your environment starts to perform outside of how it normally does during that period of time.
Whether your back-end systems run on popular RDBMS like MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Sybase ASE, DB2 LUW….and/or if you’re leveraging open-source database types like MySQL or PostgreSQL…or even if you’re taking advantage of NoSQL database types like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redshift, Redis, or Snowflake...on-prem or deployed in the cloud....Foglight can keep you updated about system availability and performance.
Avoid the dreadful Website Down/Unavailable message for the happiest of holidays!
For more information, or to request a trial, visit the product page: Foglight database monitoring
