Spotlight Enterprise 12.4 New Features
Spotlight Enterprise 12.4 comes with some neat features you do not want to miss! Query Execution Plans available when needed the most: The Workload Analysis and the Query Execution Statistics drilldow...
Plug-N-Play! Monitor Oracle Pluggable Databases with Foglight
In 12c, Oracle introduced support for a new architecture - multi-tenant. As such, the Container database (or CDB) was introduced. Think of the CDB as the 'super database'. This multi-tenant container ...
Introduction to UI Queries in Foglight
Think of a UI Query as a shortcut to data that you can use in a report, dashboard, service definition, etc. This post will show how to get started building queries. The example today will be to get a...
SQL Server Monitoring – With No Bad Days
When I think back to my early years as a junior DBA, I can’t help but cringe. Man, did I have some dark days! Mainly because I had no idea what was even possible when it came it to SQL Server monitori...
Postgres, Postgres….read all about it!
Have you heard the news? PostgreSQL has earned the prestigious 'DBMS of the Year' award by DB-Engines! **(Postgres won in 2017 as well!) Who is DB-Engines (.com)? Solid IT, an Austrian IT consulting ...
Foglight PI in… License to Monitor
" It went by fast but it was great! " - DB Tribune " So quick, so easy...I was monitoring in no time! " - Monitoring Weekly " 5 Stars! " - DBA Times Ok, enough of the movie review feel. Let's get rig...
Spotlight Federation Steps
We all get excited when our cell phone plan includes so called “Unlimited Data.” But, you know what happens if we push your luck. That’s right; we start to experience performance issues and get toss...
Express Scripts Cures Slow SQL Server Performance with a Prescription for Database Health
December. It’s cold and flu season. We’re all a little rundown from holiday stress. And oddly enough, it feels as if our databases aren’t even immune. Maybe it’s Murphy’s Law. Maybe it’s just life. Bu...
The Foglight Countdown
We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics. "Sweet dreams are made of cheese”. Correct lyric: “Sweet dreams are ma...
Foglight, Play Some Funky Music
We haven't added voice command to Foglight yet, but we can still get Foglight to play some tunes. I setup a small monitoring environment with a Foglight Management Server in a public cloud. I put a lo...
“These go to eleven”
PostgreSQL has entered an exciting new chapter with the release of version 11 (10/18/18). This blog highlights some of the version 11 additions and improvements to PostgreSQL. ** The information share...
May All of Your Lights be Green this Holiday Season
Creating your own dashboard in Foglight is as easy as putting up the Festivus pole. In this post, a service containing all MySQL instances was created. A great feature of Foglight is the ability to c...