Over the years, Foglight evolved as a Data Observability Platform for multiple databases, Hybrid and Cloud infrastructures. In the rapidly evolving world of IT monitoring and observability, Open Telemetry has emerged as a game-changer. It provides a set…
Foglight offers the capability to use scripts to build monitoring agents for any purpose. This blog describes a custom agent to monitor Informix instances. Please understand this cartridge as an example and template that can be customized and improved…
I recently helped a customer setup monitoring for over 400 instances in about 30 minutes. Darren Mallette posted a blog on how easy this is using the Discover Multiple Instances option Setting up Monitoring for Multiple SQL Instances - Performance Monitoring…
I’ve been using PostgreSQL for many years, but mainly as an application back end database. I’ve never really had a chance to performance test a Postgres database and see what happens.
With the 7.3 version of Foglight we now have the SQLPI…
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 monitoring…
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…
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 this information…
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-integration
Foglight 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-integration…
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-to-bottom…
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 significant…
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With more on your plate than ever, cross-platform database monitoring is critical. You can’t afford any database downtime or performance degradation. Foglight helps you to avoid risk and stress, spend more time…
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 IT Ops tool…
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.
2. SQL Statements…
As more and more Oracle users upgrade their databases to Oracle 19c and beyond, posts on the Oracle community mailing lists about changes in query performance are increasing. In most cases, users are seeing improved performance; but, as Scotty said in…
"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…
Is there a database skills gap for complex hybrid IT environments?
In research published by Unisphere Research in 2020, the database professionals they surveyed responded that 84% had two or more database platforms in use and 31% had four or more. That…
Quest is very excited to announce the General Availability of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise v13.3.
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise v13.3 is focused on a major aspect of SQL Server tuning - analyzing execution plans.
An execution plan…
As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud…
Few things are as frustrating for database professionals as the inability to track down the root cause of a performance issue. And when you’re under pressure to keep everything running smoothly, manually and inefficiently struggling to understand the…
In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For our customers using Foglight for Cross Platform Databases…
What does your company’s approach to database management look like? You should always have an answer to that question.
Suppose that, at the end of a conference call, someone from the executive leadership team asks you and your boss to stay on for…
I normally write about specific aspects of the solutions that I support, but I thought I'd try something a little different today. For those of you that don't know, I'm a sales engineer supporting Quest's Database Performance Monitorin…
