I've written about the Service Builder before, but I wanted to step back and go through the steps to create a "simple" service definition. This one will simply have some Oracle instances and some hosts (eg. App server, web server, etc.)
We start with…
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Background
Two years ago, ...
In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For our customers using Foglight for Cross Platfor...
OK, who took my Postgres tile? Where is my MySQL tile?
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If you recently updated your Foglight license file, you may need to take a few additional administrative steps.
1. Navigate to Administration > Cartridges (Cart...
While Foglight for SQL Server offers capabilities that go above and beyond most SQL Server monitoring products in the industry, Query Performance Monitoring is certainly a strength of the product that customers get significant of value out of.&n...
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the other non-important ones.
Exclusion lists can be c…
On Thursday, September 24, 2020, Postgres version 13 was officially released. As opposed to a release full of "new features", Postgres 13 largely improves upon existing functionality.
The Release Notes can be found here -> https://w...
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In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, etc.?
A common request is to set a different t...
I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal.
If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on the alarm as it happens, and go to the Sourc...
