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…
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…
Many customers ask how they might integrate Foglight Alarms into other 3rd party monitoring tools. One way to accomplish this is to send SNMP traps in response to a Foglight alarm.
To configure Foglight for this capability, you need to first download…
Foglight has many out of the box rules to evaluate performance and availability conditions for your databases, virtual and physical infrastructure, web pages, network devices, etc. Once it has been running for some time, it's a good idea to evaluate which…
I had a customer ask how they could use Foglight to find out when "dbcc checkdb" last ran against their SQL Server databases.
This is a great use case for User-Defined Collections!
As a refresher, my colleague Trent Mera wrote a great blog on…
A customer recently asked me to clarify the option "Enable Backup Escalation" in Litespeed for SQL Server. The customer has been using Litespeed for a while so I was a bit surprised the question was asked. When we spoke further, I learned they had built…
While on the Quest stand at the recent SQL Pass summit in Seattle I was talking to a customer about custom dashboards. You can find more information on custom dashboards here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/pimp-your-ride-with-foglight-custom…
Foglight reports can be extremely useful in broadening the reach of whatever monitoring you’ve got set up. Reports can be the mechanism for delivering PDF or Excel summaries of important information on the health and capacity of your databases,…
For those of you that have been using Foglight for some time may have seen how the solution not only captures and retains metric data historically, but also applies baselines to estimate the system performance and help with system monitoring and planning…
First, a brief introduction….
Formally named PostgreSQL (and pronounced /ˈpoʊstɡrɛs ˌkjuː ˈɛl/), it is an object-relational database management system with roots from the Ingres project at the University of California, Berkeley. PostgreSQL is open…
It is a foregone conclusion that performance monitoring is part and parcel of managing a database instance once it is in production. But what about pre-production? Especially when the instance itself is reaching critical phases of testing and quality…
