When working with new and existing Foglight customers as they are planning to upgrade from vCenter 5.x to vCenter 6.x Infrastructure, the question is usually always asked, "Does Foglight support monitoring vSAN?"  YES, Foglight supports monitoring…

One of the first questions that I like to ask any customers that I work with is “how many VMs do you have?” This gives me a good understanding of how large their environment is. Do they have less than a 1,000 VMs? 1,000 to 3,000 VMs? Or do they have…

The Database Administration Manager communicated his need to efficiently gather and report upon growth data in the QA and Production environments. The project at hand was to build an accurate growth model for 6, 12, and 24 month time windows. He explained…

A customer recently asked if it was possible for Foglight to integrate with Active Directory.  To take it a step further, use the Member(s) of a existing Active Directory Group to access Foglight and when the Group Member(s) login, they can only see VMware…

In Keep Your Pi from Burning with Foglight, I showed how to use script agents to collect data from a Raspberry Pi's built-in CPU temperature sensor and display a graph like this:

In this installment, I'll show you how to create a rule that will check…

Have you ever looked at Resource Monitor in Windows and wondered why some of your cpu cores were "parked"? That sure doesn't sound good!

This post does a good job at explaining the details. Needless to say I was intrigued, and I wanted…

If the Jackson 5 had written their song a couple decades later, a snappier song title might've been "SNMP.. as easy as 1-2-3!" Now try to get that out of your head for the rest of the day.

In this post, I'll show how to install the parts…

A customer asked the following:

"We had a scenario where we received an email alert in the overnight hours because a remote switch went down. However we realized that Foglight will not notify again once the switch goes back up. So we came to the…

Last week we posted part two of this blog series for our Stat customers and prospects in which we examined the The First Way and how users can use Stat’s functionality to achieve goals and the practices that underpin DevOps.  This week’s blog will…

Quest has recognized the growing importance of APIs and has taken steps to ensure they are properly addressed in the most recent versions of Foglight. It’s a great way to augment Foglight’s Virtualization and database performance monitori…

In most organizations that have upgraded to DB2 LUW version 10.5 with BLU Acceleration, discussions are underway about using column-oriented tables to help improve performance of large queries. Column-oriented tables are becoming commonplace in some shops…

Foglight Administrators often find that the responsibility of onboarding Foglight end users falls on them. It’s not always the case; sometimes we see that a business liaison will work with teams that need Foglight and they will help setup the use cases…

Coming soon to Capacity Director!

1. Select a cluster
2. Select a host or all hosts in the cluster
3. Review, select and automate the placement recommendations
4. Review, select and implement the resource optimizations

Done, a balanced virtual environment.

On my farm, I have a fairly large irrigation system (7 zones and a pump), all controlled by a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. I also have Raspberry Pi controllers for Amateur Radio activities, including a Weak Signal transmitter that uses only the…

In Investigating Processes with Foglight - Part 1, we looked at the default dashboards that give us insight into processes and their performance metrics on a host.

A customer wanted a simple dashboard to display metrics on a specific process, without…

A customer recently asked me for help building a simple dashboard that showed a specific process name and associated resource usage. They wanted to provide a single view to end users instead of having them go through the default dashboard's workflow.…

In part one of monitoring Raspberry Pi with Foglight, I showed that the Infrastructure agent worked pretty much as expected when collecting from the Raspbian OS.

I was curious though if it exposed any metrics via snmp. 

The first step was to check if snmpd…

In a prior post, we looked at installing Raspberry Pi (version 3) as a host to run the Foglight Agent Manager. Since we don't yet have an installer compiled for the ARM processor, it wasn't a very long post!

But, wait! Can Foglight do anything…

A customer recently asked if there was a way to get some network device availability metrics and service status to show up alongside application-oriented metrics from their e-commerce applications. They already had the service for the e-commerce application…

I was recently asked by a colleague if Foglight had any ability to tell if a specified port is open on a host.

I dug through my archives of custom agents that have been developed over the years, and I found one called PortMonitor (attached version 1.1…

 “Why do I have to manage virtualization?” you ask yourself. “After all, I put all that effort into virtualizing our environment so that I could manage less: less hardware, less storage and less physical infrastructure. I want all my virtualization issues…

This is the last part in this series of how to configure your alarms to do exactly what you want them to do. If you haven't had a chance, read part two of this series "Get Rid of That Noisy Alert Chatter! Part 2." Today, we will go over how…

I speak with administrators all the time that get alarms from objects they don’t care about, because in Foglight alarms generally apply to all your objects. An alarm comes in and you stop what you’re doing to check it out, and it’s usually about…

I had a question recently from a customer. They were asking how to keep track of inactive SQL Server instances in Foglight so that the data can be removed. A flip side of this would be to check what instances they have being monitored vs. what is supposed…

Often we hear from customers that they get so many alarms they don't have time to sort through them. The monitoring system they use fires too many alerts, and they just end up ‘white noise’ instead of actionable items. Are you getting too many alerts…