Every day we see technologies evolve and we are requiring to handle more data and tasks, this applies to multiple services and data pipelines that maintain them. Whilst we adapt to fast changing environments, it's important to monitor them and setup…
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…
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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…
As part of most any database monitoring software evaluation, it includes comparing that software to similar solutions. Logically, it often means doing head-to-head comparisons to database tools that come bundled with that particular DBMS. Regularly, I…
Foglight has rules which fire alarms on specific events, but it can also fire alarms for a group of objects as part of the service builder configuration. This is important if you have a service, let’s say a mixture of monitored objects, like OS, databases…
Postgres v. 14 snuck up on us and was released about a month ago.
The community continues to kill it with advancements in innovation.
Have a look at these frighteningly powerful enhancements and additions.
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PostgreSQL 14 now supports the syntax…
For over two decades, as a Database Sales Engineer, I have provided technical demonstrations either in-person, online, or in a recorded format. It takes a particular honed skillset to accurately distill technical information and position solutions in…
One of the most common questions I am asked when speaking with evaluators of Foglight is, “Can Foglight integrate with <insert solution here>? …Remedy, ServiceNow, SCOM, Splunk, Teams... The list goes on and on. This inquiry really comes as no…
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…
Many of us don’t like to ask for directions….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVzRD_nWLQ&t=16s
That said, getting advice, directions, help, or suggestions will provide a faster path to success. My Dad always said, “When in doubt, read…
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight.
In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for an instance (eg. dbss_instance.name like '%YOW%').…
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.
Exclusion lists can…
In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, etc.?
A common request is to set a different threshold…
I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal.
If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on the alarm as it happens, and go to the Source tab.
…This use case came in recently - "How can we build an ‘exec’ view that doesn’t include a bunch of junk alarms?"
This is a great case for the Service Builder and Alarm Filters. When you create a service, you can also use that…
In this post, alarms were configured to only fire upon the instances contained within a Database Group. These groups are created and managed from the Databases dashboard, but underneath, they are really service definitions.
Now, what if we are using the…
( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... )
We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.
A few years ago, I wrote this blog detailing how to get host services created on the Hosts dashboard to show up in the Service Operations Console.
Creating a service via the Hosts dashboard is quick and easy.. but the service definition is simply the…
Many of the capabilities and techniques covered by the other recorded webcasts in this index are common across whatever type of database you are monitoring. But each platform has its own operating and processing challenges, and unique terminology. Learn…
A well-maintained monitoring environment will be healthier and more useful. Find out some of the key techniques to use, and places to look for help, to bolster the health of Foglight.
Basic Foglight Troubleshooting (when things don't work...)
Understand how Foglight’s architecture can affect the availability and the performance of your monitoring.
Best Practices for Architecture Configuration & Scalability
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