Do you wonder how the Quest technical stuff creates cartridge files to hand over customized dashboard, reports or agents to you? Well, everyone can do that, this is no rocket science. And best is, you have all what you need available in your Foglight…

We often get questions from customers wondering how much overhead will be put on a database server when monitoring that server with Foglight for SQL Server and/or Foglight for Oracle.  This blog post should act to explain exactly how Foglight collects…

Capture the SQL performance metrics that are uniquely important to your environment Spotlight on SQL Server arrives ready to collect and alert on all of the key SQL Server performance indicators that most enterprises need to know about.  The ou...

System administrators find themselves frequently applying required updates to their server hardware, operating system, security packages, or disaster recovery processes in order to maintain system and data integrity.  Such enterprise modificatio...

Mit der aktuellen Version vom SQL Server bietet Microsoft eine neue Funktion an, mit der Sie die Möglichkeit haben, Veränderungen in der Performance von einzelnen Statements nachzuvollziehen. Wir werfen einen Blick auf die Details, die Granularität der…

I often get asked about monitoring SQL workload that is consuming a database instance’s resources. The first question that comes to my mind is, “What is the symptom you are trying to resolve?” Are you looking to understand the root...

Some users only require simple access to Foglight dashboards, ideally being able to skip the logon step. In Foglight Server version 5.7.5.7, the user security option of an auth token was introduced. My colleague @Beam.Liu wrote an excellent blog...

If you are someone who is responsible for administering Foglight when used for monitoring SQL Server Instances, you will likely run into the situation where you want certain databases to be neglected from the overall monitoring.  There are going to be those…

In a previous post, I explained how to customize alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Recently, I had a customer inquire how he could refine the "Days Since Last Full Backup" alarm. He wanted to be able to exclude specific databases, but specify…

Some users only require simple access to Foglight dashboards, ideally being able to skip the logon step.

The NoLoginUser was designed to allow the passing of a dashboard id via URL, and bypass the login step.

This should only be used on Foglight Management…

Merriam-Webster defines ‘Custom’ as made or performed according to personal order. Tailored, fitted, personalized…or ‘pimped out’, slang meaning something is modified to extreme performance. There was a television serie...

Often times, excessive number of Java request types causes burden on the Foglight Management Sever and it affects the FMS performance. Also, You may not see the new request types from a newly added server to monitor since it reached the configured li…