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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…

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 significant…

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 easy…

With the release of Foglight version 6, alarm management has been simplified with the use of alarm templates.

You can access Alarm Templates directly from the left-hand panel in the new UI. However, if you've upgraded from a previous version, it helps…

Way back in 2020, these posts formed the building blocks of using the command line to automate alarm blackouts in Foglight:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 

In Part 3, we looked at adding objects (instances, hosts, etc.) to a service definition, and then having the…

In this post, some tips for working with User-Defined Queries (UDC's) were introduced.

We left off with the idea of creating a custom dashboard showing UDC results from multiple instances.

The Foglight data model is organized with a controlling root…

What an exciting year it was for Foglight for Databases!

Foglight for Databases had an amazing year, with several releases for the various Database Cartridges. Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve done in 2017:

• Foglight for SQL Server…

Many customers ask how they might integrate Foglight Alarms into other 3rd party monitoring tools.  One way to accomplish this is to send SNMP traps in response to a Foglight alarm.

To configure Foglight for this capability, you need to first download…

 I had a customer ask how they could use Foglight to find out when "dbcc checkdb" last ran against their SQL Server databases.

This is a great use case for User-Defined Collections!

As a refresher, my colleague Trent Mera wrote a great blog on…

Database performance monitoring can be a real circus! And with an ever-growing amount of technology platforms to manage, we’ve become the ultimate jugglers.  

Didn’t sign up to be a clown?

Hey, I know. I didn’t, either. But, listen, sometimes…

Understand that this is a general, high-level guide outlining the steps you should expect to take during a Foglight for SQL Server upgrade. Since environments and upgrade circumstances are often different, it is important to review and familiarize yourself…

As a DBA, you are responsible for many things, not to mention the ever changing landscape that is your database environment.  Documenting the server inventory is essential as it will come in good use when it comes to planning for a migration/upgrade,…

We often get questions from customers wondering how much overhead will be put on a database server when monitoring that server with Foglight for SQL Server and/or Foglight for Oracle.  This blog post should act to explain exactly how Foglight collects…

As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments.  There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be through typical maintenance efforts such…