We often get asked by customers how can they integrate Foglight with other products they own to streamline their daily operations. Based on my recent conversation with one of my customers and their IT Ops team, I had the opportunity to explore IT Ops tool…
Foglight® by Quest® has always had robust alarm management capabilities, like the alarm templates wizard we introduced in Foglight 6.0 to simplify…
Organizations face new challenges when they use or sell cloud-based applications. This post describes three use cases that pose challenges, as well as opportunities for cost-savings and improved customer experience through database performance tuning…
This is the second in a multi-part series on how to leverage Foglight to save money within your IT budgets. To review the first part, managing monitoring vendor sprawl, check out the post linked here.
This post is going to cover another way to save money…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.0.
Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…
Your database monitoring solution is only as good as its ability to let you know about problems – hopefully before application users and revenue-generating systems are affected. But, too often, monitoring tools get in their own way by firing too many…
The Quest Foglight Evolve Consolidation Advisor is designed to help those involved with cloud management plan future consolidations of existing environments. Those environments could exist of both virtual machines and physical servers/hosts.
The Consolidation…
RR Episode 02 – Are You Ready for Change?
In this Episode 2, Quest Senior Consultants, Dave Orlandi and Amit Parikh, discuss the importance of being ready for change and considerations around its impact on database performance.
On the go? Listen…
I was trying to come up with a clever title for this post, and even googled "good network port jokes" but they were all blocked.
Badum-Tiss..
For this post, we can refer to this general Foglight architecture diagram.
The "Data Submission" and…
Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especially cloud) and a more complex technical environment…
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…
Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is making it happen. As they take on new database platforms…
The Need for Speed in your Sql Server database
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We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight Evolve 9.3.
This release brings major product enhancements that have been requested by many of our customers, including (but not limited to) the following features:
Let’s face it, tuning SQL statements is time-consuming, often frustrating and just plain hard. For many years, I’ve been giving performance tuning presentations, and through those years I’ve managed to whittle it down to five simple manual tuning tips…
Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approximately 80-90% of companies today have cloud operations…
Is there a database skills gap for complex hybrid IT environments?
In research published by Unisphere Research in 2020, the database professionals they surveyed responded that 84% had two or more database platforms in use and 31% had four or more. That…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight for Databases v5.9.7.20, featuring the new Performance Investigator (PI) for Azure SQL DB.
BackgroundPI is one of Foglight’s most popular features. Its main functionality is multidimensional…
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight.
In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for an instance (eg. dbss_instance.name like '%YOW%').…
In this intro post, we looked at some basics of setting alarm blackouts via the command line. These commands can then be automated via script to include in a maintenance job, for example.
Any object can be referenced in the topology query - in this example…
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…
As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud…
Few things are as frustrating for database professionals as the inability to track down the root cause of a performance issue. And when you’re under pressure to keep everything running smoothly, manually and inefficiently struggling to understand the…
