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 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…
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 Foglight for Oracle, invalid objects are monitored and alerted upon for each schema. While it's possible to exclude schema's from monitoring, this can be tedious if you only have a handful of schema's that need to be monitored.
There…
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. These monitoring options come included at no additional cost and illustrate how broad and complete Foglight is as an Oracle monitoring solution…
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle.
Part 1 of the blog covers Foglight’s monitoring for Oracle’s Data Guard.
Hold on, grammar and spelling enthusiasts. Already, you might be thinking, did he mean ‘Complementary’ or ‘Complimentary’? The answer? YES. This blog series focuses on additional Oracle monitoring capabilities beyond monitoring the Oracle instance…’complementary…
Congratulations! You have Foglight installed and it is collecting meaningful performance data. There’s no doubt it is providing a ‘smorgasbord’ of actionable information about your mission-critical environment. Help yourself to delicious servings of baseline…
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:
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…
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…
SQL Performance Investigator (SQL-PI) is an extension to the standard Foglight for SQL Server Cartridge, and adds Real-time and historical data.
If you have used Performance Analysis for SQL Server, then SQL Performance Investigator should look very familiar…
We've all been there, the dreaded ticket that comes across our inbox. Always light on detail, just a single sentence: "The database server is slow." No five words bring as much fear, uncertainty and doubt to a DBA than those (well, maybe…
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Foglight for SQL Server and Foglight for Oracle versions 5.7.5.35. This release provides the following significant enhancements:
So you've now taken a look at the architectural differences and enhancements between Performance Analysis and Performance Investigator (if you haven't, check them out here). You've also hopefully been wow'ed by the new and enhanced features that…
Had a question from a customer today about backing up the Foglight for SQL PI database. The customer wants to automate this using command line and the reference guide asks you to deactivate the agent first, via the UI.
No problem, I said, there is always…
