A customer recently had the need to get a count of the number of SQL Server instances that Spotlight on SQL Server is deployed to. There are several ways to do this, depending on requirements and how ...
A previous post showed how to modify a registry variable to apply a value to a specific host. It would be good if the actual value that is going to be used when the rule fires could be validated. The ...
In a previous post, the Rules dashboard was used to show how to modify the global value of an alarm threshold. For this particular rule, that value would then apply to all hosts that are being monitor...
I recently showed a customer how to modify the thresholds and severity levels of Database alarms by using the Foglight for Databases administration dashboard. A follow-up question was about how to do ...
The data that we get in Foglight Performance Investigator for SQL Server and Oracle is shown on the default dashboards to provide actionable insights. But sometimes you want to get a bit more granular...
I previously shared a challenge I had with finding the services that were created in the Hosts dashboard. Ideally we want to be able to use them in the Hosts and Infrastructure dashboards, but also ad...
A customer would like to forward alarms from Foglight with all the appropriate information, such as alarm time, source, severity, message, and the rule name, to a pager script which in turn pages the ...
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 ...
In this blog series, I’ll cover why monitoring the Internet of Things (IoT) is important, along with how to go about doing it in a practical manner. What is the Internet of Things? The IoT is an ecosy...
