Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the ...
On Thursday, September 24, 2020, Postgres version 13 was officially released. As opposed to a release full of "new features", Postgres 13 largely improves upon existing functionality. The Release Note...
Expand Foglight Monitoring Beyond Infrastructure View the webcast here This webcast covered: How to use script agents, User Defined Collections and the REST API to monitor things like freezer tempera...
We are excited to announce that Foglight for Databases version 5.9.7.10 is now GA! In this post, I would like to share the key product enhancements of this new version. PI Repository Enhancements Earl...
In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, ...
I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal. If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on...
This use case came in recently - "How can we build an ‘exec’ view that doesn’t include a bunch of junk alarms?" This is a great case for the Service Builder and Alarm Filters. When you create a servi...
In this post, alarms were configured to only fire upon the instances contained within a Database Group. These groups are created and managed from the Databases dashboard, but underneath, they are real...
We often get requests to only fire certain alarms (eg. hours since last log backup) on a specific set of instances (or other objects, like jobs, databases, etc.). One way to do that is to leverage the...
SQL Server provides us with a number of high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Two of them are Always On Availability Groups and Always On Failover Cluster offerings. In order to leverage ...
One of the primary needs of those responsible for maintaining the health of database environments is to efficiently find poorly performing queries. Are there resource-intensive queries running? Are th...
Spotlight reports are designed in SQL Server Report Definition files (RDL) and stored in the local installation folder of Spotlight client application making them accessible to Spotlight users. By def...
