Performance Monitoring

From Skepticism to Success: How I Built an AI-Powered SQL Optimization Tool That Actually Works

yossi nixon — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:15:45 GMT

As a Senior Oracle DBA with decades of experience optimizing databases, I was initially skeptical about AI's ability to handle the nuanced art of SQL optimization. Two days and hundreds of automated tests later, I had built a tool that proved AI...(read more)

Mind the Gap: How Foglight 8.0 Delivers on the Promise of Database Observability

daniel schrijver — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:48:12 GMT

Back in May, Amit Parikh wrote about the four ways to transform your business in the ROI of proactive database observability. We're excited to share that the recent release of Foglight 8.0 is engineered to help you realize these benefits. But first,...(read more)

AI Alarms now in Foglight for Databases v. 8

David Orlandi — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:43:28 GMT

AI adoption is accelerating at an alarming pace (you'll see what I did there), revolutionizing industries and fundamentally changing how companies, institutions, and people address data challenges. Quest's Foglight for Databases is no exception with ...(read more)

Now Available: Foglight®︎ Cloud – Smarter Query Tuning and Broader Cloud Database Monitoring

Lior.Asta — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:20:42 GMT

We’re proud to announce the general availability of Foglight® Cloud, the latest evolution of Quest’s powerful database monitoring and optimization solution. Built for today’s hybrid and cloud-first enterprises, Foglight Cloud&nb...(read more)

Finding Oracle PGA Memory Hogs with Foglight: A Practical Guide

yossi nixon — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:00:35 GMT

The Problem: When PGA Memory Goes Wild Recently, a customer approached us with a common yet challenging issue: “We have many queries consuming a lot of PGA memory. Can Foglight help us find which queries consume the most?” This question t...(read more)

How can I be alerted about blocking locks on an Oracle database.

Martin Wild — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:37:47 GMT

On a customer call recently and the customer was asking if our Foglight for Oracle agent included an alert for blocking locks. This is a rare question for me, since Oracle database customers don’t tend to see issues with blocking locks compared...(read more)

From Zero to Hero: Foglight Alerts to Incident.io in 20 Minutes

Darren Mallette — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:45:34 GMT

Integrating Foglight alerts with incident.io can streamline your incident management process. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up this integration efficiently. A customer recently asked if Foglight alerts can integrate with Incident....(read more)

From Micro to Macro: Foglight's Granular Take on PostgreSQL Workload

Darren Mallette — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:32:37 GMT

This will be a short post, but I didn't want to gloss over this new feature in Foglight Cloud 7.3.1. SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) keeps workload data for two years, but there will be different granularity levels depending on the age of t...(read more)

Lights, Camera, Execution: Foglight for PostgreSQL's Graphical Plan Viewer Debuts

Darren Mallette — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:50:10 GMT

In Foglight Cloud 7.3.1, you now have the ability to generate and view the execution plan for PostgreSQL. Within SQL Performance Investigator, you can choose your time frame and drilldowns. In this case I started with the most recent hour and isolate...(read more)

Keeping an AI on Your Database: Fun with Alarm Investigation

Darren Mallette — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:34:05 GMT

Foglight Cloud 7.3.1 went GA this week with a new feature to interact with alarms. It is a separate feature that will need to be enabled for your subscription. Once enabled, you can bring up an alarm and investigate further with the "Foglight Alarms ...(read more)

I’ve found some slow code in the database, what does it do? Who do I ask? Toad?

Martin Wild — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:22:10 GMT

So here is an interesting example of using Quest solutions together. What if you have Foglight, you are monitoring a database, you find a SQL Server stored procedure that is getting slower, and slower and you want to know what the purpose of this pro...(read more)

Foglight Observability using Prometheus and Grafana

Naushad.Shaik — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:25:24 GMT

Every day we see technologies evolve and we are requiring to handle more data and tasks, this applies to multiple services and data pipelines that maintain them. Whilst we adapt to fast changing environments, it's important to monitor them and setup&...(read more)

Foglight's Open Telemetry - A Quick Walkthrough

Naushad.Shaik — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:57:32 GMT

Over the years, Foglight evolved as a Data Observability Platform for multiple databases, Hybrid and Cloud infrastructures. In the rapidly evolving world of IT monitoring and observability, Open Telemetry has emerged as a game-changer. It provides a ...(read more)

Monitoring Informix databases with a custom script agent

Markus.Schroeder — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:44:20 GMT

Foglight offers the capability to use scripts to build monitoring agents for any purpose. This blog describes a custom agent to monitor Informix instances. Please understand this cartridge as an example and template that can be customized and improve...(read more)

What Are The Types of Monitoring Credentials for Foglight for SQL Server?

Martin Wild — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:58:03 GMT

I recently helped a customer setup monitoring for over 400 instances in about 30 minutes. Darren Mallette posted a blog on how easy this is using the Discover Multiple Instances option Setting up Monitoring for Multiple SQL Instances - Performa...(read more)