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...
"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…
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 ...
Foglight ships with a rich set of pre-configured rules to alert you when issues arise with your databases.
The default action is to put an alarm message on the dashboards within Foglight. Email notifications aren't enabled by default - but it's an ea…
Use Case - Compare the workload activity of two timeframes
Most of us have watched software demonstrations where the presenter “saves the best for last”. Is this not a disservice? Everyone’s time is valuable. So, why not have the mo...
RR Episode 09 – Mold Your Replication Strategy with Clay
In this Episode, Quest Senior Consultants, Dave Orlandi and Amit Parikh, ring in the New Year with fellow colleague Clay Jackson, and discuss various ways that a solid data replication s...
Part 3 concludes this series on Foglight and using SQL PI to quickly find, diagnose, and fixed inefficiencies in your database environments. In Part 1, we reviewed workload and poorly performing SQL statements. In Part 2, we covered the differe...
Part 2 of this series will show you how to tune the queries you found by using Workload Analysis (see Part 1). Additionally, we'll look at the different 'Context' dimensions to help you quickly focus on the right problem.
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Database performance issues are a major contributor to the application slowdowns which we all face every day.
DBAs, developers and IT professionals have a daunting task of deciphering the large number of factors that contribute to database wait time.…
RR Episode 08 – The Grateful Data, Live and on Tour
In this Episode, Quest Senior Consultants, Dave Orlandi and Amit Parikh, share their gratitude for being part of the ever-evolving data landscape.
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In this post, we looked at how to create an alarm template via the Databases dashboard.
If you followed the steps outlined, you would've ended up in the Alarm Templates dashboard with a new template.
You can also get to Alarm Templates directly from …
