On a customer call recently and the customer was asking if our Foglight for Oracle agent included an alert for blocking locks.
This is a rare question for me, since Oracle database customers don’t tend to see issues with blocking locks compared to SQL…
So here is an interesting example of using Quest solutions together. What if you have Foglight, you are monitoring a database, you find a SQL Server stored procedure that is getting slower, and slower and you want to know what the purpose of this proc…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A UI Query can be used to add either static or dynamic components to a service definition via the Service Builder dashboard. This in turn offers a
great range of additional things Foglight can do. This post will introduce creating a service definition…
A UI Query can be used as a shortcut to building a custom dashboard or report. This can save time and frustration by publishing either frequently accessed or hard to find data in an easy to use spot.
In my Introduction to UI Queries post, the building of…
In my Introduction to UI Queries post, the building of a simple query to return all SQL Server Agent Jobs was shown.
Let's back up a step, and take a look at where UI Queries can be used in Foglight. This post will be updated with links as the topics…
Foglight has a robust rules engine for alerting and notification. It's often the case that you can get to the same end zone in Foglight by many different plays.
Using the Service Builder is an easy way to group "things" together. "Things" can be higher…
Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by…
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change “- Heraclitus.
Development, new applications, upgrades, patches, maintenance, schema updates…the list goes on and on around ways that changes are introduced into your environment. Sometimes these…
One of the powerful features of Foglight for Oracle and Foglight for SQL Server is the ability to enter your own database queries (SQL) and have the Foglight collector execute these and return data. Trent Mera wrote a great blog on this topic called
…When monitoring databases for performance, we certainly want to understand things like CPU spikes, memory pressure, I/O latency, and the like. If we see this type of performance, the next step is to take a closer look and attempt to find out what's causing…
