What you don't know can cost you
Your team is troubleshooting one database issue while three more are building that they can't see. Database teams face an impossible choice: tools that go deep on one platform, or broad coverage that misses the details that matter. Every option forces you to sacrifice visibility somewhere.
Application observability tools provide breadth but lack the depth needed for database instance performance details. Database-specific tools provide depth but create tool sprawl and management complexity across your diverse estate.
The result? The iceberg effect, what's beneath the surface is what sinks ships. The hidden costs of database blind spots include:
• Operational impact: Hours wasted on manual alert correlation and troubleshooting
• Financial impact: Uncontrolled cloud database spending and overprovisioned resources
• Risk exposure: Critical performance issues discovered only after they impact customers
Foglight solves this with unified database observability: one view, every database, total control.
Deep diagnostics and cost optimization for all your database platforms
A single pane of glass:
A unified web interface to monitor all legacy and modern databases (14+ platforms). Wide range of database support—cloud, on-prem, and hybrid—in a single console.
Root cause analysis suggestions, powered by AI:
Find, fix, and optimize with AI-powered insights. Our alerts tell you HOW to fix the problem, not just that it exists. Trained on our 25+ years of database performance expertise, Foglight AI cuts alert resolution time by 40%, so your team spends less time firefighting
Clear visibility into Snowflake spending:
Clear dashboards and alerts to see who's spending what, where the potential waste is, and how to save. Customers have identified up to 30% of Snowflake spend as potential savings.
Foglight solves common challenges
Reduction in MTTR
Managed database platforms in a single pane of glass
of Snowflake costs identified as possible waste
Supported Integrations
Knowledge Center
Take control of your costs and database performance with Foglight
FAQ
Database observability goes beyond traditional monitoring by looking inside your databases to understand not just what is wrong, but why it's happening and how to fix it. While generic observability tools only expose surface-level database symptoms and leave teams guessing, database observability analyzes queries, workloads, resource usage, and configuration changes to pinpoint root causes: blocking, contention, inefficient queries, or configuration drift.
With AI-powered guidance, it helps teams:
- Find issues instantly with complete visibility across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments
- Fix root causes in minutes with intelligent recommendations that explain problems and suggest corrective actions
- Optimize performance and costs proactively by identifying inefficient queries and over-provisioning
Organizations need this because every second of database delay costs revenue and trust. Database observability enables faster incident resolution, reduces reliance on scarce DBA expertise, and helps teams proactively optimize performance and cloud costs before problems impact users.
Foglight improves database performance through deep database observability that goes beyond basic database monitoring. It provides real-time database diagnostics and historical analysis to identify performance bottlenecks before they impact users.
Key capabilities for database performance optimization:
- Query performance analysis: Identify slow queries, blocking, and resource-heavy workloads affecting your databases
- AI-powered root cause analysis: Get intelligent insights that explain why issues occur, with actionable remediation recommendations
- Proactive performance tuning: Receive query optimization, schema, and index recommendations tailored to your environment
- Change impact detection: Compare performance metrics across time periods to see how changes affected database availability and speed
Foglight's AI-driven database management lifts DBA expertise, enables developers to resolve issues faster, and optimizes performance continuously
We’ve provided a list of the most popular database platforms that Foglight supports on this Support Platform paragraph higher up this page. For a full up-to-date list and the specific versions of those platforms, go to our support site at: Supported Platforms - Foglight On-Prem
Yes, Foglight fully supports cloud database monitoring and observability across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments—all from a single, unified platform.
Cloud database capabilities include:
- Multi-cloud visibility: Monitor cloud databases alongside on-premises systems with a consistent experience, eliminating blind spots and fragmented tooling
- Cloud cost observability: Track credit usage at query, warehouse, and account levels for Snowflake
- Cost anomaly detection: Identify over-provisioning, waste, and unexpected spend tied directly to cloud database activity
- Workload forecasting: Predict costs and resource needs to improve financial predictability and reduce the average 30% waste in cloud database bills
Foglight's cloud database performance monitoring combines real-time diagnostics with AI-powered optimization recommendations, helping FinOps teams, Data Engineers, and DBAs work from a shared view to control costs while maintaining peak database performance and availability.
Foglight uses a lightweight, agentless architecture that collects data via built-in Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) for SQL Server, and Performance Views (v$) for Oracle with no expensive traces. All analysis happens off-server. Typical CPU overhead is well under 2% on monitored instances.
Foglight is backed by Quest's enterprise security program. At the company level, Quest holds ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 certifications, along with SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 Type II attestations.
For Foglight deployments specifically:
- Foglight for Databases, our on-premises deployment model of Foglight, is covered under Quest's ISO 27001 certification, ensuring that software development and support processes meet international information security management standards.
- Foglight Cloud (SaaS) is covered under both ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, providing independent assurance around the security, availability, and confidentiality of the managed service environment.
These certifications help organizations meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements for database monitoring tools. To request Quest's SOC 2 Type II report or other security documentation for your procurement or audit process, contact your Quest representative.