• Announcing Quest®︎ Foglight®︎ v6.3 General Availability

    Background

    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…

  • Adding Email Notification to Database Alarms

    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…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 3 (of 3) – CRS and Exadata

    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…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 2 – ASM

    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.

    https://www.quest.com/community/quest/performance…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 1 – 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…

  • Foglight for DB 2017 Summary and Look to the Future

    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…

  • Integrate Foglight by Sending SNMP Traps

    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…

  • Checking When DBCC CheckDB Last Checked Your DB

    Checking When DBCC CheckDB Last Checked Your DB

     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…

  • The Juggling Act of Modern DBAs

    The Juggling Act of Modern DBAs

    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…

  • Discussing the Overhead of Foglight for SQL Server and Oracle

    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…

  • Measuring the impact of changes on DB performance

    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…

  • How to Add the SQL PI Extension to an existing Foglight SQL Server agent

    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…