A well-maintained monitoring environment will be healthier and more useful.  Find out some of the key techniques to use, and places to look for help, to bolster the health of Foglight. Attain & Sustain Optimal Monitoring with Maintenance &...

Understand how Foglight’s architecture can affect the availability and the performance of your monitoring. Best Practices for Architecture Configuration & Scalability View webcast here  This webcast covered: Embedded vs. External Fo...

Learn how to interpret and react to various types of alarms and to problematic resource usage by workloads.  Equip yourself to track down causes of degrading performance. Diagnosing Blocking and Locking with Foglight for Databases View webcast...

Many Foglight users wish to produce reports or custom views that visualize important key performance indicators about some of the monitored things in their environment.  Reports can be produced and shared, whether template out-of-the-box reports...

Put to use some of the built-in facilities of Foglight to make your monitoring even more effective and valuable:  registry variables, schedules, services, and the security model.     Find More Time for Innovation and Helping Your Bus...

Foglight fires alarms when something being monitored is experiencing a lower- or higher-than-desired level, or “abnormal” behavior.  You can help Foglight understand what “reasonable” levels of performance are, and which ...

SQLServer Differential Backups make a lot of sense...they backup only what has changed. However, it seems that many Database Administrators choose not to leverage them. When digging into reasons for this, it is often because DBAs prefer to avoid some…

In this post, I alluded to 2 ways to capture VMware metrics with Foglight for SQL Server. The steps below apply to SQL Server running on Windows only. Since VMware Tools pulls metrics into the VM, we can access those by querying the WMI Performance C…

There are a couple easy, free ways to get VMware metrics collected by Foglight for SQL Server. This first part shows the easier way. When setting up the monitor for SQL Server, you can select (or not) to provide VMware credentials. Foglight will con…

Find out how to tackle the growing horrors of modern database performance management in three simple steps.

More and more companies are moving in part or even attempting a complete move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as they are realizing the benefits. I'm even seeing a trend of company management mandates.. "If it is available as-a-service, go t...

With Foglight for Oracle, invalid objects are monitored and alerted upon for each schema. While it's possible to exclude schema's from monitoring, this can be tedious if you only have a handful of schema's that need to be monitored. There are 2 way…