For environments that have lots of instances to be monitored, registering each of them one by one can be a bit time-consuming. A time-saving alternative is to import your instance list from a file. Step 1: Right-click on the SQL Server node in the …

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We often get asked by customers how can they integrate Foglight with other products they own to streamline their daily operations. Based on my recent conversation with one of my customers and their IT Ops team, I had the opportunity to explore I...

"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to...

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. When using the ...

Foglight ships with a rich set of pre-configured rules to alert you when issues arise with your databases. The default action is to put an alarm message on the dashboards within Foglight. Email notifications aren't enabled by default - but it's an ea…

Most of us have watched software demonstrations where the presenter “saves the best for last”. Is this not a disservice? Everyone’s time is valuable. So, why not have the most important information at the start? This approach is use...

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Through database performance tuning and database monitoring opportunities are presented that maximize margins for your business.

Part 3 concludes this series on Foglight and using SQL PI to quickly find, diagnose, and fixed inefficiencies in your database environments. In Part 1, we reviewed workload and poorly performing SQL statements.  In Part 2, we covered the differe...

Part 2 of this series will show you how to tune the queries you found by using Workload Analysis (see Part 1).  Additionally, we'll look at the different 'Context' dimensions to help you quickly focus on the right problem.    2. S...

Database performance issues are a major contributor to the application slowdowns which we all face every day. DBAs, developers and IT professionals have a daunting task of deciphering the large number of factors that contribute to database wait time.…