During installing of an database agent Foglight requests an admin account to grant the needed database privileges to the Foglight database user. In some environments it is not allowed to do a remote admin connection to the database. Or you might not …

A customer recently asked if the value that Foglight uses for email (to, cc, etc.) could be set to a different value at different times of the day. It can actually do one or the other, and with a little workaround, could do both. Start on the Manage …

I had a customer who was curious if Foglight could be used to monitor MariaDB running in Amazon RDS.  This customer was already monitoring SQL Server and MongoDB with Foglight, and was eager to see if it could extend to this new MariaDB based ap...

Foglight 5.9.3 introduces the following two Rest APIs to help you push alarms: Push Alarm By Properties API URL:  http://serverURL:port/api/v1/alarm/pushAlarmByProperies Request Type: POST Header: Access-Token: The access-token from ...

Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) is a version of the SAML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML 2.0 is an XML-based protocol that uses security tokens containing assertions to pa…

Foglight 5.9.3 introduced the following three new WCF components to show collected metrics in a variety of ways and to better analyze the collected data.  Tree Map: Treemap displays hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectang...

A customer recently asked if there was a way to find the top application servers that were placing load on their database instances. With Foglight Performance Investigator, it is very easy. Start with the usual tasks - setting the time range and spec…

Cost Director allows you to view the cost of running your datacenter like it’s Public Cloud. Cost Director is included in Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 and no additional license required.  In 3 steps you will setup an organization struc...

How much is Azure costing me? How much do my VMs cost me in my datacenter? Should I migrate to the Cloud?  Understand the cost of my datacenter you ask?! You heard that correctly, FVE 8.8 is almost, almost, exclusively about managing the cost of...

Keeping an eye on your Agents, Publications and Subscriptions. Along with its main dashboards helping you watch your SQL Server and Windows core operational performance, Spotlight on SQL Server has screens to help you understand Availabili...

Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues.  The Workload Analyzer of Spotlight Cloud is a very robust query eval...

We often get asked about the breadth and depth of Foglight when it comes to its monitoring scope.  Whether it support for a multitude of relational, open source and NoSQL database platforms or providing the depth needed to identify the root caus...