Postgres version 12 is here. Did you miss its introduction like me? My excuse is the year-end holidays (what's yours?).  Well, version 13 isn't planned for release until the fall, so there's plenty of time to brush up on v.12 To give...

When dealing with large number of connections, the power and advantage of PowerShell API can be leveraged to manage, automate, and administer Spotlight configuration. The efficiency gains obtained through command line access to automate configuration…

I normally write about specific aspects of the solutions that I support, but I thought I'd try something a little different today. For those of you that don't know, I'm a sales engineer supporting Quest's Database Performance Monitorin…

Most of my blog topics come from customer questions and use cases. This is one I lost sleep over. The use case was to limit a disk usage rule from firing on a specific host. It got bigger when we dug in a bit, as the rule should be limited to only vi…

( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... )   We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics. “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”. C...

A few years ago, I wrote this blog detailing how to get host services created on the Hosts dashboard to show up in the Service Operations Console. Creating a service via the Hosts dashboard is quick and easy.. but the service definition is simply the…

All is well. Megan is having a good day. She’s a SQLServer DBA and her environment is humming along. Then…. someone drops a critical table bringing efficient data retrieval to a screeching halt. Now what? It’s a weekday mornin...

Learn how to easily to assess the privileges of admin accounts and receive alerts if an admin attempts to log on to any vulnerable endpoints.

Controlling your Group Policy objects (GPOs) is the second step and critical best practice for managing the insider threat. Let's explore.

Learn how to understand and control privilege across your IT environment. It's the first step towards stopping an insider threat.

Many of the capabilities and techniques covered by the other recorded webcasts in this index are common across whatever type of database you are monitoring.   But each platform has its own operating and processing challenges, and unique ter...

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. A Spotlight on Foglight – How Spotlight Users can ease their way into Foglight View webca…