On a customer call recently and the customer was asking if our Foglight for Oracle agent included an alert for blocking locks. This is a rare question for me, since Oracle database customers don’t ten...
So here is an interesting example of using Quest solutions together. What if you have Foglight, you are monitoring a database, you find a SQL Server stored procedure that is getting slower, and slower...
I recently helped a customer setup monitoring for over 400 instances in about 30 minutes. Darren Mallette posted a blog on how easy this is using the Discover Multiple Instances option Setting up Mon...
From Foglight version 6.3 onwards a lot of development has gone into updating the security of Foglight, that could be upgrading various components to the latest versions but also ensuring the agents n...
I’ve been using PostgreSQL for many years, but mainly as an application back end database. I’ve never really had a chance to performance test a Postgres database and see what happens. With the 7.3 ver...
A common requirement for any monitoring solution is to integrate with a service desk ticketing system. Most will accept an email or API call to create tickets if the monitoring solution detects an iss...
In Foglight 6.1 Quest added additional metrics to monitor Availability Groups (Always-On). The dashboard was also redesigned to show these new metrics as well as some new alarms shown below: The impo...
I was recently talking to a customer who wanted some help tracking Oracle process memory usage on Windows. They had a problem with a bug causing a memory leak and had a support case open for that. The...
I received a question today from a customer about alerting on index fragmentation within Foglight. We don’t provide this feature out of the box, but we could add this as a custom feature. So, to begi...
So, assuming you have the agent collecting (from the previous blog post: Real life question. Love Foglight for SQL but could it also help us with monitoring files? Answer Yes) we can navigate to Creat...
So, this question came up recently with a customer. Lots of teams also have these additional questions that would make their lives so much easier. I decided to mock up an example and document it for t...
It might appear initially that the Azure SQLDB dashboard is just a real time view (with an hour’s history) but actually there are lots of ways of view the data back over time. The first thing you mi...
