Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by…
Can Foglight run on a Raspberry Pi running Linux? This blog answers the question.
Interestingly, I've been asked more than once recently if the Foglight Agent Manager can be installed on a Raspberry Pi (version 3) running Raspbian. One of the main use…
Recently, I spoke with a customer who's using Foglight for Oracle to monitor their RAC instance. They were able to successfully monitor the instance, but then asked "Why don't I see any data in the ASM tab?". I think this is a great question and I thought…
Foglight for Active Directory has the answer....
Foglight for Active Directory shows
I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can use it to help manage the growth of his virtualized…
One of the lesser known features of Foglight the ability to monitor log files. One of our customers has a process that collects and prints documentation required for truck movement. Before a truck can leave the loading dock, the dispatcher requests a…
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…
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…
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…
Coming soon to Capacity Director!
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…
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…
In most organizations, the stakes are high in the ongoing fight to keep technical infrastructures from hurting business. The infrastructure can’t be the reason a business flails or fails.
Think about your organization, and all the mechanizations…
The latest release of the Foglight for Oracle cartridge brings a new dashboard, customer enhancements and various fixes.
There is a new overview dashboard:
It is easier to read with an improved layout. I like the way the various areas are summarized…
In this third and final installment, I’ll show specifically how Foglight can help monitor the network…
One of the nicest features in Foglight is the flexibility in creating beautiful drag and drop dashboards, here is a short video blog showing how you can create a fun and functional dashboard for Halloween.
Uh oh. Something isn't right with Foglight. There's fatal alarms and emails flying in every direction. Or maybe everything is fine, but you need a hand with some maintenance tasks. Perhaps some clarification on a setting, or a rule? Foglight Support…
This is one of those special Enterprise Monitoring use cases that I mentioned in my last blog post; The Not So Obvious Enterprise System Monitoring Essentials. While this is not the only way to do Foglight alert integration, it is what we felt…
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In a previous blog we showed how easy it is to send Docker Counters to Foglight, the next natural step is to alert when something goes wrong.
A reminder our script was called DockerMonitor.sh and the lines sending data to Foglight were
echo "TABLE DockerData…
Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: the Foglight quarterly maintenance release! That’s right, Foglight 5.7.5.5 was released on July 14 with a focus on customer-raised bugs, general quality of work, Foglight Management Server performance…
One of the pitfalls of creating custom rules for Foglight is failure to take into account assumptions being made when crafting a custom rule. As a result this can cause unexpected results when different assumptions are made, for example when the individual…
