To begin working with Derived Metrics, I would like to start with collection metrics. What is a metric in Foglight? A metric is for example the CPU or memory utilization of a host. Foglight stores the collected values historically in the Foglight rep…

I was asked recently if there are any alerts when Foglight has a problem collecting data. The answer is, there are several ways. For SQL Server, there is a rule named "DBSS-Collection Status" that can be managed via alarm templates and noti...

I received a question today from a customer about alerting on index fragmentation within Foglight. We don’t provide this feature out of the box, but we could add this as a custom feature. So, to begin with, let’s consider how we find thi...

So, assuming you have the agent collecting (from the previous blog post: Real life question. Love Foglight for SQL but could it also help us with monitoring files? Answer Yes) we can navigate to Create Rule and start to create the rule. I’ve h...

So, this question came up recently with a customer. Lots of teams also have these additional questions that would make their lives so much easier. I decided to mock up an example and document it for them. They have a process that dumps csv files in f…

It might appear initially that the Azure SQLDB dashboard is just a real time view (with an hour’s history) but actually there are lots of ways of view the data back over time. The first thing you might have tried is clicking on a graph eg: DT...

Hello All, In my previous blog posts of Foglight Integration, I wrote how to integrate Foglight and Opsgenie in three parts. Please follow the links below Foglight for IT OPS - OpsGenie Email-integrationFoglight for IT OPS - OpsGenie RestAPI Integrat…

In Part 2 – I have covered how to forward Foglight alarms to OpsGenie using RestAPI. (please see the link below)https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-for-it-ops-a-genie-approach-for-foglight-alarm-integra...

Deep Thoughts by Dave Orlandi (SNL reference....kidding, I kid.) A couple of weeks ago, I was able to attend the Postgres conference in Chicago - PGDay. It was an intimate affair...maybe 100 attendees...but those who participated were able to absorb…

Background We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.3. Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top...

Query Insights: Coming soon in Foglight v6.3! As organizations rely more on data to make critical business decisions, ensuring that their databases are running efficiently becomes increasingly important. A database slowdown or crash can result in a s…

Foglight has a retention policy for the data that is collected from the monitored environment. For SQL Server, the default is "medium" or 90 days. If an object (eg. a database) is removed from the monitored instance, Foglight will still keep a record…