Bubble Charts in Foglight for Virtualization for VMware, Hyper-V and OS Monitoring Analytics.

In Part 1 of this blog post, I review how you can get an evaluation copy and explain the various integration points from Quest’s monitoring solutions – Foglight and Spotlight Enterprise. You can find it here -> https://www.quest.com/community…

In the recent 5.7.5.50 release of Foglight for SQL Server, a change was made to the TempDB drilldown. Specifically, the Sessions tab would formerly show the current sessions, regardless of the time range selected on the dashboard. Now, it will allow you…

This post will cover one way to make it easy easier to get the user-defined collection data onto a dashboard or report.

For a quick refresher, please see User Defined Collections in Foglight for SQL Server: A Quick Walk-Through

With a "simple" UDC that…

Registry variables in Foglight are mostly used as placeholders in rules in order to avoid hard-coding in values. 

For example, a rule to check cpu utilization over a certain percentage could be coded as:

1- #utilization# > 99.0

or

2- #utilization# …

Am 10.4. 2018 findet das siebte Foglight Anwendertreffen in Köln statt. Das Treffen bietet Ihnen die Möglichkeit, sich über Neuheiten und Entwicklungen im Bereich Foglight zu informieren und Erfahrungen auszutauschen. Die Referenten kommen aus den technischen…

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container. A container is lightweight and portable, which make it easy…

You say “No” - well - I say “Yes”. All database rules are sensitive and have a sensitivity level.

What does that mean? What is a sensitivity level? Where can I find it and can it be modified?

Ok - a lot of questions, so let's start…

One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are: Minimize Response Time – End users who are interacting with data want that data as quickly as possible...

Many of our Foglight users including myself have grown accustomed to using the "Databases" home as their starting point into their daily monitoring tasks.  This dashboard provides a global view into all of the instances being monitored and gives…

Naturally, it's VERY important to know when things are going wrong with our monitored instances. What's not helpful is the dreaded "False Positive." You know the scenario I'm about to describe. It's 03:00 and you're sleeping soundly and dreaming of the…

So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It simply expires after the 30 days. There are a couple…