We are excited to announce the general availability of Quest Foglight version 6.1 and its new features.

I was helping a customer recently in relation to database monitoring and they asked if Foglight could also help them with their windows OS service monitoring. The answer was yes of course, the OS agent used alongside the DB monitoring can also monito…

In my previous post Adding Service Emails to Foglight I showed how you could get emails for alerts for a group of monitored objects. But what happens if you are seeing too many alerts in the email and not all of them are relevant? So, in this po...

Foglight has rules which fire alarms on specific events, but it can also fire alarms for a group of objects as part of the service builder configuration. This is important if you have a service, let’s say a mixture of monitored objects, like OS...

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Resolve performance problems quicker with new alarm notification feature in Foglight 6.1. Specify which alarms go from which databases to which contacts.

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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...

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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 ...