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…

Friends. Change is here. All of us DBAs are dealing with it. Look at the number of new database platforms. It’s relentless. They just keep coming. And we’re expected to take on any or all of them that’ll save our companies money. But it’s hard, right…

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…

Understanding the processes and configurations causing your bottlenecks

IO is the single most important metric to know for creating optimal performance of your database systems.  To understand it, you’ll need to know the processes, resources and configurations…

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…

I've done a number of posts recently that touch on Foglight administration, customization, or some of the more advanced capabilities of the product.  I felt it was a good time to circle back on some of the more basic use cases that Foglight can help…

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 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…

If you are someone who is responsible for administering Foglight when used for monitoring SQL Server Instances, you will likely run into the situation where you want certain databases to be neglected from the overall monitoring.  There are going to be those…

We are lucky enough to work with a number of extremely talented and passionate people. Some of our coworkers have been here for a number of years and have some great stories to tell. We wanted to use this interview as an introduction to one such individual…

As a Sales Engineer for the Database Performance Monitoring team, one of the more rewarding aspects of my role is to learn about specific ways that our customers are leveraging Quest solutions. With that in mind, I am a firm believer that if something…

A colleague of mine (Darren Mallette) wrote a great blog post explaining how to query the embedded Foglight Performance Investigator (PI) repository using tools which provide native PostgreSQL connectivity (i.e. Toad Data Point or pgAdmin).  While reading…

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:

• Performance Investigator (PI) Advisories - Fully automated engine…

Microsoft has evolved their marketing over the past several years to focus on the fact that SQL Server is more than just a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).  You may have noticed, that Microsoft commonly now refers to SQL Server as the SQL…

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…

In part one of Performance Analysis to Performance Investigator, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms.  In part two, we will…

In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…

In part one of this blog series, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms.  In part two, we will discuss the new and enhanced features…

In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…

In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture/) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…

A few months ago I spent some time with a customer that was suffering from periodic SQL Server outages.  In most of these cases, the database servers were not actually going down, but applications were having difficulty connecting to them due to excessive…

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…

User-Defined Collections enable you to tell Foglight for SQL Server to go beyond the data points it collects out-of-the-box to also collect the results of queries that you define.  So in addition to the vast amount of commonly-needed metrics that Foglight…

Performance Analysis for SQL Server, and Performance Analysis for Oracle, have been long-standing tools in the our portfolio (The following article only applies to SQL Server and Oracle.  Performance Investigator for DB2 has not yet been developed).  When…

As a DBA, would you say that your database performance monitoring tasks are getting any less complex?

I thought not.

We commissioned a study called The Real World of the Database Administrator for a closer look at the facts of DBA life. In this post,…