Integrating Foglight alerts with incident.io can streamline your incident management process. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up this integration efficiently.
A customer recently asked if Foglight alerts can integrate with Incident.io…
Foglight Cloud 7.3.1 went GA this week with a new feature to interact with alarms.
It is a separate feature that will need to be enabled for your subscription.
Once enabled, you can bring up an alarm and investigate further with the "Foglight Alarms AI…
From Foglight version 6.3 onwards a lot of development has gone into updating the security of Foglight, that could be upgrading various components to the latest versions but also ensuring the agents negotiate the highest security protocols when connecting…
I've got our database load testing product, Benchmark Factory (bmf), running load tests on various database platforms in our lab. Sometimes the host reboots and then BMF needs to be restarted. Since I'm monitoring the host with Foglight, I decided to…
A common requirement for any monitoring solution is to integrate with a service desk ticketing system.
Most will accept an email or API call to create tickets if the monitoring solution detects an issue.
I recently worked with a customer who needed their…
One of my favourite features to write about in Foglight isn't really a feature at all - it's more like a foundational building block that enables you to do interesting things.
UI queries are simply a path to the underlying data. They are particularly…
For those that have used the Database Expansion Pack in the past, you may have noticed 2 rules for alarm automation.
I've broken these rules out into a separate cartridge for ease of use.
The cartridge is installed via the Cartridge Inventory dashboard…
A customer recently asked if they could integrate Foglight alerts with everbridge xmatters. I took a look into it and within 30 minutes it was working.
Start by logging into your xmatters account and add the "Trigger Alerts by email" workflow.…
Foglight 6 development switched to using Angular for UI components. Examples of these are Alarm Templates, Notification Channels, Audit Log and the fantastic enterprise SQL view Query Insights.
One thing that is not in the new UI is the ability to create…
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 notification channels…
We're often asked how to create an alarm threshold exception for certain types of objects. Using the Databases -> Configure Alarms dashboard, you can change thresholds at the instance level. That works great when there is a 1:1 relation between the instance…
I recently worked with a customer on the following use case. They've successfully integrated Active Directory logins with Foglight and wish to match up an AD Group with a group on the Databases dashboard in order to implement User Level Access (ULA).…
A customer asked how to implement and email that indicates an alarm has been cleared. In Foglight, there are typically several ways to do that.
In this post, we'll look at creating a new rule that fires when an alarm event occurs. The event we'll focus…
There are two ways to manage blackouts in Foglight - from the UI and from the command line. The options are generally the same. The command line provides us the ability to automate the blackout by using the command line utility in our maintenance scripts…
What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics?
Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglight for Postgres.
Administration options are available…
Think of a UI Query as a shortcut to data that you can use in a report, dashboard, service definition, etc. This post will show how to get started building queries.
The example today will be to get a list of all SQL Server Agent Jobs, regardless of the…
What if you could get a list of all metrics and observations collected by Foglight, and have the ability to filter/sort by cartridge and topology type? That would be groovy.
My colleague Mark.Bai developed the script below. To run it, navigate to Administration…
In some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator.
Start by navigating to the Administration dashboard, and select Licenses.
Next select "Install…
