In the field, I'm always asked, "why can't we just use the IP address to sessionize?" Well, this is a bad idea for several reasons. To first understand why, it's important to realize what you sessionizing means. In the state-less HTTP protocol, we have…

Hot off the presses is the new FxM and FxV sizing guide (attached) which covers each of our appliance models from the 2950, r300, r310, r610, and the new r710. When reviewing this document, it's clear to see that there are MANY factors needed for a proper…

Hello Foglight Folks,

Robert Statsinger here. On occasion you may run into a situation where you need to migrate your Foglight Management Server to a different host. Some circumstances that might necessitate this are:

1. You are upgrading your iron…

Hot off the presses is the new FxM and FxV sizing guide (attached) which covers each of our appliance models from the 2950s, R300, R310, R610, and the new R710. When reviewing this document, it's clear to see that there are MANY factors that go into a…

There may be a few misconceptions about what "instrumentation" is in relation to the Quest Foglight UEM solution. For those in the dark about this concept, basically instrumentation gives you the "client perspective" when measuring end-user performance…

For those customers using an Apache Proxy Server, you may have noticed that Foglight Experience Monitor had (up until now) ignored the X-Forwarded-Host parameter that Apache so diligently passes. This is no longer the case. You now have the option to…

URLs are the key to scripting web applications correctly with a load testing tool. That is, you can either manually enter the URLs directly into the script and see if it will play back, or you can use the interactive recording capabilities and let the…

Introduction

For many years, I’ve had the opportunity to provide implementation consulting on the Foglight End User modules Foglight Transaction Recorder (FTR), Foglight Experience Viewer (FxV) and Foglight Experience Monitor (FxM). When setting up Foglight…