“Foglight Skills 101” Alarms
Foglight fires alarms when something being monitored is experiencing a lower- or higher-than-desired level, or “abnormal” behavior. You can help Foglight understand what “reasonable” levels of perfor...
Mitigate Risk with SQLServer Differential Backups Using Litespeed
SQLServer Differential Backups make a lot of sense...they backup only what has changed. However, it seems that many Database Administrators choose not to leverage them. When digging into reasons for t...
Another way to gather VMware metrics on SQL Server hosts
In this post, I alluded to 2 ways to capture VMware metrics with Foglight for SQL Server. The steps below apply to SQL Server running on Windows only. Since VMware Tools pulls metrics into the VM, we ...
Correlating VMware metrics with SQL Server Performance – in 2 Parts
There are a couple easy, free ways to get VMware metrics collected by Foglight for SQL Server. This first part shows the easier way. When setting up the monitor for SQL Server, you can select (or not)...
How to Slay Database Performance Demons in Three Killer Steps
Like anyone who’s ever stepped out of an ice bath, I feel compelled to make a disclaimer: This post contains references to a popular streaming TV show, which I shan’t name, as I’d like to stop giving ...
SaaSY! Consider Software-as-a-Service with Spotlight Cloud
More and more companies are moving in part or even attempting a complete move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as they are realizing the benefits. I'm even seeing a trend of company management mandates...
Foglight for Oracle – Invalid Objects Filtering
With Foglight for Oracle, invalid objects are monitored and alerted upon for each schema. While it's possible to exclude schema's from monitoring, this can be tedious if you only have a handful of sch...
Introducing user level access with Spotlight 13.0
Spotlight 13.0 introduces a brand new feature of managing access to monitored connections at the user level. It provides the ability to assign or deny a user access to a set of connections that have b...
Updating Foglight Agent Manager JVM Settings
Depending on how many databases, hosts, etc. that you wish to monitor, the JVM memory settings for the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam) may need to be adjusted. There is a way to do this from the Fogl...
Five ways to be more proactive about DB2 performance problems
Before application users are affected! That’s when everyone would like to see database performance problems addressed. However, if you’re like many of the DB2 LUW customers I work with, and how I fu...
Can you believe this Administration?!
What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics? Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglig...
We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 3 (of 3) – CRS and Exadata
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. These monitoring options come included at no additional cost and illustrate how broad ...
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