With Foglight Cloud, Quest takes care of Foglight administration tasks so you don't have to. In order to get email notifications from alarms on your databases and infrastructure, you simply need to setup one or more notification channels and assign t…

Having the best monitoring and observability tool for databases, infrastructure and cloud you can find is a must for success in today’s “always on” world.

In Foglight 6.1 Quest added additional metrics to monitor Availability Groups (Always-On). The dashboard was also redesigned to show these new metrics as well as some new alarms shown below: The important point here is that you might have some monit…

We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics. "Sweet dreams are made of cheese”. Correct lyric: “Sweet dreams are made of these” by The ...

Many organizations are taking a new look at how best to ensure that performance optimization is happening on all their critical databases.  You might be looking for your first monitoring tool. If you’ve had a database monitoring solution i...

Embrace the Future: Foglight Cloud Now Available for Your IT Revolution We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight...

Embrace the Future: Foglight Cloud Now Available for Your IT Revolution We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Clo…

Foglight offers the capability to add custom script agents for any type of data collection. This can be a shell scripts or batch files. It is one possibility to add custom functionality to the monitoring. It can be done by using the script agent buil…

I was recently talking to a customer who wanted some help tracking Oracle process memory usage on Windows. They had a problem with a bug causing a memory leak and had a support case open for that. They were happy with the SQL PI feature in Foglight t…

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Why move from v.5 or v. 6? ....because 7.1!  For a detailed list and explanation of what is new in Foglight v. 7.1, please refer to the Foglight v. 7.1 Release Notes ....but here are some highlights.... User Interface Enhancements: Breadc...

Foglight 6 development switched to using Angular for UI components. Examples of these are Alarm Templates, Notification Channels, Audit Log and the fantastic enterprise SQL view Query Insights. One thing that is not in the new UI is the ability to cr…