Database cartridges allow you to monitor your database instances. But you can boost the power of your monitoring by adding one or more of these features.
Moving from Performance Analysis to Performance Investigator
This webcast covered:
- The differences between Foglight Performance Analysis and Foglight Performance Investigator
- Key considerations for anyone making the move
Distinct and Helpful Features of Database Cartridges
This webcast covered:
- Databases dashboard tips and tricks
- Steps to define alert thresholds and email notifications for database alarms
- How to create and use User-Defined Collections
Using Utility Cartridges to Extend Your Monitoring
This webcast covered:
- Web Monitor Cartridge: Monitor the availability and response time of various websites.
- Net Monitor Cartridge:Monitor the connectivity and health of network connectivity between various end points.
- Log Monitor Cartridge:Monitor log entries in Windows Event Logs, or any text based log file.
Continuous Monitoring, the DBA, and Fitting into the DevOps Culture
This webcast covered:
- Enable DBAs, application development teams, and other stakeholders to share the same consistent performance metrics and understand the environment health at any given time
- Correlate database and infrastructure changes to the actual application performance
- Compare performance and configuration across production and test environments
Monitoring Beyond the Database
This webcast covered:
- vCenter/ESX plugin to gather virtual metrics within SQL Server and Oracle
- Included OS monitoring with Database monitoring
- Review of Webmonitor, Netmonitor and Logfilter capability
- Special Technology Preview - upcoming Docker, Kubernetes and Swarm monitoring
Finding and tuning problematic queries with Foglight Expert
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This webcast covered:
- Foglight alarms that can actively notify you of current and emerging query issues
- Screens that help you isolate resource-consuming statements
- Analytics to quickly discover the databases, users, and applications with which the statements are associated
- View the query plans to help determine bottlenecks
- Initiate a tuning session and be provided rewrite alternatives
Capacity Planning & DB Expansion Pack
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This webcast covered:
- Understanding your current database workload using specific metrics and baselines
- Setting up and organizing your plan for capacity management by scheduling monthly and /or quarterly reports
- Getting additional functionality by using the DB Expansion Pack
Expand your database monitoring coverage with Foglight for Cross Platform databases
This webcast covered:
- Adding new instances to be monitored in Foglight for Cross Platform Databases
- Identifying and addressing Postgres Locks Waiting that can become problematic Deadlock transactions
- Optimizing Postgres Query Performance
- Managing Postgres Disk Space Usage
- Leveraging Foglight’s PostgreSQL Administration capabilities
