Recently, I spoke with a customer who's using Foglight for Oracle to monitor their RAC instance. They were able to successfully monitor the instance, but then asked "Why don't I see any data in the ASM tab?". I think this is a great question and I thought…
Understand that this is a general, high-level guide outlining the steps you should expect to take during a Foglight for SQL Server upgrade. Since environments and upgrade circumstances are often different, it is important to review and familiarize yourself…
Let me be very clear when I say that I do not advertise Foglight for Databases as a security auditing or intrusion detection solution. What is interesting to me is a scenario described by a customer working with Foglight to monitor his SQL Server databases…
As a DBA, you are responsible for many things, not to mention the ever changing landscape that is your database environment. Documenting the server inventory is essential as it will come in good use when it comes to planning for a migration/upgrade,…
Organizations are as varied as the people working within them. Some organizations have groups that are focused on specific applications. Some organizations have people responsible for specific database platforms supporting the business. How ever the organization…
In some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator.
Start by navigating to the Administration dashboard, and select Licenses.
Next select "Install…
Come join Microsoft, Anvil.Works and Quest to learn how to maximize your Foglight platform during the Foglight Dev Camp 2017.
October 16
In an earlier blog, I wrote about a company’s success with Quest’s flagship SQL Server monitoring and diagnostics solution – Spotlight Enterprise. The blog detailed a customer success story and revealed detailed use cases explaining how this application…
Please join me tomorrow: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, for the next in our Foglight Skills 101 webcast series where we will be discussing Alarm Management with Foglight for Databases. Below you can see the agenda that I will be covering, along with a list…
