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Foglight for Databases

Proactively monitor the health and performance of all your database platforms with a robust database monitoring tool. With Foglight for Databases, DBAs gain unprecedented visibility across their database platforms. From one simple-to-use console, they can quickly diagnose and resolve emerging issues to prevent business interruption. And because Foglight supports a wide range of platforms, including on-premises and cloud databases, you get cost-effective database monitoring software for the platforms you use now, and the ones you’ll add in the future.
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Use the Foglight database monitoring tool to resolve performance issues – before they impact users

With more on your plate than ever – from massive data volumes and multiple database platforms, to DevOps and the cloud – cross-platform database monitoring is critical. You can’t afford any database downtime or performance degradation.

It’s easy to get caught up in fighting fires reactively, but what if you could prevent them in the first place? You could avoid risk and stress, spend more time on strategic initiatives and ensure your business runs smoothly.

Foglight cross-platform database software allows you to proactively improve database performance and increase visibility by monitoring all your diverse databases centrally, through a single console. With alerting, diagnostics, performance analytics and more, you’ll easily optimize database health – across your entire environment.

Key benefits

Global view

See the most critical issues across platforms and take immediate action

Built-in intelligence

Understand enterprise health and activity at a glance. Get pop-up advice with correlated workflows

Adaptive baselines

Receive alerts when activity deviates from normal metrics

Rich historical data

Resolve issues through diagnostics and alarm data from any drill-down screen

Drag-and-drop reporting

Use data you have collected to develop customized views and reports

SQL workload analytics

Investigate workload by drilling into data on users, programs, SQL and sessions

Historical lock analysis

Resolve concurrency issues with historical reviews of blocking-lock scenarios

Automated change tracking

See changes to server, instance, database and schema environments and SQL degradations

Reduce mean time to resolution

With Query Insights, you can easily narrow the scope of analysis and quickly pinpoint queries causing issues. 

Supported platforms

No matter which database platforms you use, Foglight can help you monitor, predict, diagnose and resolve database performance issues quickly. Foglight offers comprehensive support for cloud databases - including: Amazon RDS, Azure SQL DB (single/elastic pools), Azure SQL Managed Instance and more.

Foglight solves common DBA Challenges

86%

Manage multiple platforms

72%

Performance #1 responsibility

75%

Improved resolution time

Features

Comparison reporting & Query Insights

Identify the root cause of a performance deviation in your application environment, as well as identify and optimize time-consuming queries

Easy integration

Integrate your other end-to-end enterprise monitors seamlessly

Wait-event analysis

View wait-event data at the statement level to resolve resource-related performance problems

Wait-state analysis

Determine the location and cause of waits by diagnosing your wait statistics

Automatic instance discovery

Rapidly deploy through automated discovery of instances and specific hosts

Wizard-driven installation

You can easily add database monitoring to your infrastructure or configure as a standalone solution

Alarm workflow and templates

Manage your alarms with automated workflows, custom notifications and reusable templates for standardization across databases

Powerful performance investigation

Proactively optimize performance with an analytics engine that collects and investigates data on baselines, lock analysis and change tracking (available for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL)

Customer Stories

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CommitDBA

Without Foglight, we wouldn’t be able to meet our SLAs at all. With Foglight, we meet well over 99.5% of our SLAs.

Bailey Glenn Foglight Administrator, CommitDBA

Envision Healthcare

Foglight both monitors our databases and offers us a deep dive into them for real business intelligence

Darrick Webster Database Administrator, Envision Healthcare Read Case Study

Tour

Complete cross-platform support
Global database view
Quick view drilldowns
IntelliProfile baselines
Platform-specific drilldowns
Performance Investigator
Business intelligence monitoring
Got DevOps?
Easily manage multiple databases
Alarm Templates
Database platforms complete support

Complete cross-platform support

Standardize performance monitoring and diagnostics across multiple platforms and ensure consistently high database performance and availability.
 

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