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Foglight Trial Resources

Thank you for taking the time to consider Foglight. Foglight trial resources are split into two easy steps:

1) The Foglight Virtual Lab allows you to instantly see the benefits of Foglight.

2) The trial installation is for you to install Foglight in your environment.

Throughout the process, we have step-by-step video tutorials to help you solve problems fast.

Foglight Virtual Lab

The Virtual Lab is a pre-configured environment with multiple platforms, variable workloads and simulated problems already created for you to work with.

The Virtual Lab will help you explore how Foglight reacts to issues in a safe environment, helping you decide if Foglight is a good fit for you.

Watch Video: Viewing the Health of Your Instances

(1) Access the Virtual Lab

Foglight Trial Installation

Once you have seen the power, benefit and depth of Foglight in action in our lab you will want to try it in your own environment.

Our video tutorials below offer guidance so you can quickly install Foglight and evaluate it with your workloads.

Watch Video: Quickly Isolate Workload Bottlenecks

(2) Access your free trial

Step By Step Video Tutorials

We want to ensure you get the most from your trial experience.

Below, you will find short videos to help you get started quickly. We have broken them into 4 stages to make it easy for you to follow:

Setup & Configure

Before installing Foglight, watch these short videos to learn how to access your download file and make sure you have the right system requirements. You’ll also learn a little more about the basic components of Foglight.

Downloading your Foglight for Databases Trial

This video guides you to quickly access your Foglight Trial download file. You’ll need to provide contact information and creat...

Foglight for Databases Architecture

This video provides a short overview of Foglight and its architecture. To accommodate different infrastructures and flexible us...

Prerequisites for Installing Foglight

Watch this video to learn the system specifications and hardware needed before installing Foglight. For more information on Fog...

Installing Foglight for Databases

Once you’ve successfully downloaded Foglight, watch an extended clip of how to install it. This video demonstrates installation...

Creating a SQL Server Connection in Foglight

This video provides an overview of how to configure a Foglight Performance Investigator repository for a SQL Server connection....

Creating an Oracle Connection in Foglight

This video provides an overview of how to configure a Foglight Performance Investigator repository for an Oracle connection.

Using Foglight for Databases

If you need additional help with installing Foglight or establishing a connection with your Oracle and SQL Server databases, these slightly longer videos will walk you through the process. Remember, we’re always on hand to help you get the most out of your Foglight trial.

Viewing the Health of Your Instances

This video shows several different ways Foglight helps monitor database health. Pre-built alarms show the severity of issues ac...

Defining Database Agent Alarm Settings

Foglight gives you the ability to customize alarm settings for your environment. This video shows how to configure and modify a...

Introduction to Rules and Alarms

Foglight tracks system metrics and constantly evaluates those metrics against rules. If conditions are matched, an alarm is fir...

Defining Database Agent Alarm Sensitivity

This quick video shows how to select and modify the sensitivity levels assigned to each agent. The sensitivity level controls w...

How to Monitor SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is an online analytical processing and data mining tool that many organizations use for bus...

Introducing Foglight Query Insights

Foglight Query Insights enables you to quickly see and focus in on the most time-consuming and frequently executed database que...

Start Solving Problems

Great! Now that you have set-up and configured Foglight. You’ll want to see what it can do. These videos can help you get started.

Quickly Isolate Workload Bottlenecks

From the Foglight dashboard, you can highlight a specific time period and examine the various components that might be slowing ...

Focus on CPU

Foglight can sound alarms for CPU usage that spikes over established baselines – a clear indicator that something is wrong. In ...

Quickly Isolate Deadlock Issues

Foglight captures database deadlocks in a dedicated UI with tabs to view the deadlocks by time period, database, objects and ap...

Advanced Performance Insight

The videos below are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Advanced Database Performance Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis.

Performance Baselines

Foglight uses IntelliProfile™ technology to estimate system performance baselines based on periods of collected metrics. Deviat...

Change Tracking

Using the change tracking feature, Foglight allows you to correlate performance issues with changes that might have occurred, s...

SQL Optimization

Using Foglight and SQL Optimizer you can identify poorly performing queries and rewrite them or generate a more efficient execu...

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