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.…
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.…
With Foglight Cloud, Quest takes care of Foglight administration tasks so you don't have to. In order to get email notifications from alarms on your databases and infrastructure, you simply need to setup one or more notification channels and assign those…
Foglight offers the capability to add custom script agents for any type of data collection. This can be a shell scripts or batch files. It is one possibility to add custom functionality to the monitoring. It can be done by using the script agent builder…
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…
In my previous post Adding Service Emails to Foglight I showed how you could get emails for alerts for a group of monitored objects. But what happens if you are seeing too many alerts in the email and not all of them are relevant?
So, in this post I show…
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…
Our team is starting to see an uptick in Linux installs for Foglight components, specifically the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam). Most of these are done at the command line, which can make some settings less than obvious. Things get interesting when the…
Registry variables in Foglight are mostly used as placeholders in rules in order to avoid hard-coding in values.
For example, a rule to check cpu utilization over a certain percentage could be coded as:
1- #utilization# > 99.0
or
2- #utilization# …
This post is short but hopefully useful. When you start the Foglight server and navigate to the home page URL (http://foglight_server:8080 or https://foglight_server:8443), you may see a startup splash page (below). If you see a login page, then the Foglight…
In Foglight 5.7.5.7 release, we introduced two new authentication features: support for multiple LDAP/AD domains, and Auth-Token support.
In addition to single domain LDAP/AD…
This is a continuation of the value discussion that I started almost 3 weeks ago now. Today I want to go down even one more click and provide direct information that can be used by Enterprise Foglight Administrators to deliver more value to their organizations…