One of my favourite features to write about in Foglight isn't really a feature at all - it's more like a foundational building block that enables you to do interesting things.
UI queries are simply a path to the underlying data. They are particularly…
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…
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…
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…
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 some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator.
Start by navigating to the Administration dashboard, and select Licenses.
Next select "Install…
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…
