We are pleased to announce the release of Foglight 5.7.5.7 on February 25^th, 2017.  It continues a string of quarterly releases focused on usability, maintainability and quality.  While I encourage you to read the release notes in detail, I will cover the…

Spotlight’s vast alarm customization capabilities enables users a wide variety of options.  Setting alarm severity levels, their start and end threshold values, or disabling them completely are just a few. Fortunately, Spotlight performanc...

Spotlight notifies DBAs of performance issues via triggered alarm messages. More importantly, specific actions can be taken based on these alarms, by configuring the Alarm Actions feature of Spotlight. Read our blog about Alarm Actions configuration …

Throughout my career I have conversed with many IT leaders that have adopted the practice of measuring the performance of their technology assets by monitoring key performance indicators (or KPIs).  Most of them will tell you that there needs to be some…

I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can use it to help manage the growth of his virtualize…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Foglight for SQL Server and Foglight for Oracle versions 5.7.5.35.  This release provides the following significant enhancements:

• Performance Investigator (PI) Advisories - Fully automated engine…

Find out what reports you should be running to gain better insight into your environment.

One of the powerful features of Foglight for Oracle and Foglight for SQL Server is the ability to enter your own database queries (SQL) and have the Foglight collector execute these and return data. Trent Mera wrote a great blog on this topic called

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Foglight administrators and other Foglight performance monitoring users who are asked to configure alarms to send email notifications sometimes struggle if they miss a step or two in the process.   This post is meant to take you through the basics, and…

Microsoft has evolved their marketing over the past several years to focus on the fact that SQL Server is more than just a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).  You may have noticed, that Microsoft commonly now refers to SQL Server as the SQL…

Are your users constantly asking for VM performance reports? Get them off your back by following these easy steps!

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