Customer Use Case

While working with a large Silicon Valley electronic Payment company we ran into a special use case that was not covered by Foglight’s regular reporting.  The requirement came from a business unit that was sharing a VMWare Cluster…

I was working with a customer the other day that hosted equipment for a number of companies.  He was not an ISP, but more a small cloud provider.  He had about 25 clients that used his services.  He liked what Foglight had to offer for performance monitoring…

The famous Yankee, Yogi Berra once said, “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” This applies to lots of different things and since this is a blog about SQL, you likely know where I am going with this - Exec...

One of the lesser known features of Foglight the ability to monitor log files.  One of our customers has a process that collects and prints documentation required for truck movement.    Before a truck can leave the loading d...

This large organization was using 6 different monitoring products.  SCOM for windows, BMC for Linux, Riverbed Steel Central for APM, Oracle OEM for Oracle Databases,  SCOM for SQL Server databases, VMWare for VM monitoring, and Empirix for web transaction…

Spotlight on SQL Server provides excellent real-time monitoring, workload analytics and more for SQL Server.  You can download the complete software for a 30-day trail on as many systems as you'd like.  A previous post walked through t...

One of the nice features in Foglight is the possibility to extend the existing monitoring capabilities by custom script agents. Unfortunately it is not possible to directly call PowerShell scripts within Foglight.

In the following, I would like to describe…

Change Analyzer has a really awesome feature called Change History.  The Change History View displays all of the vCenter change events that occurred to VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores, and resource pools within a selected environment, during a selected…

It never gets old hearing about how Quest Performance Monitoring solutions offer actionable insight to mission-critical systems. Upon visiting a customer for a 'health check' of their environment, we had the pleasure of learning about two distinct ways…

During periods of scheduled maintenance, you may wish to prevent Foglight from sending alarms about the systems involved in the maintenance task. The use case is quite obvious. You know the system's down for maintenance and there's no need for you to…

Wanted to share a quick tip for those that may be wondering "How is my Foglight Management Server's startup progressing?"  When the Foglight service starts, perhaps after installation, or a server reboot, you may be greeted with the following…

Hyper-V Virtual Switch Monitoring shows topology views from the Hyper-V Server to the Physical NIC(s), VMs to the Physical NIC(s),"Top VM" Send and Receive transfer rates and a very informative summary dashboard.