A Blog About the Foglight Alarm Log
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 ...
What are Foglight services and what do they mean to me?
In a number of different areas, you will notice a reference to ‘services’. What are these and why should I care? Services could change the way you interact with Foglight. Services are nothing more t...
Application Monitoring, where should I start? What are the colors that Van Gogh used?
It’s been amazing how much creativity and innovation is out there. Customers have been teaching me a lot over the last 20 plus years. Two identical applications behave differently for two different cl...
java monitoring instrumentation levels, who would know better than you?
Java Monitoring for Dev, Test, QA and Prod environments & collection options Best part of my job over the last 20+ years is working with more than 200 companies and working very closely with a few doz...
Do you know where your java transactions are, part 2
Java Workload Characterization – Part 2. My 3, 5, 7, 10 Rule I hope you had a chance to look at do you know where your java transactions are, my Java Workload Characterization – Part 1 blog. And I lov...
Do you know where your java transactions are? Part 1
Java Workload Characterization, understand your transaction Mix Over the years, I have met, worked and learned from a number of experts in Performance Management field. These are professionals that ar...
High Value Foglight Enterprise Customer Success Case
Customer Use Case While working with a large Silicon Valley electronic Payment company we ran into a special use case that was not covered by Foglight’s regular reporting. The requirement came from a...
A casual conversation leads to success
I was working with a customer the other day that hosted equipment for a number of companies. He was not an ISP, but more a small cloud provider. He had about 25 clients that used his services. He l...
Sounds like a Plan!
The famous Yankee, Yogi Berra once said, “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” This applies to lots of different things and since this is a blog about SQL, you likely ...
Quest Customer Story: Keeping Trucks on the Road
One of the lesser known features of Foglight the ability to monitor log files. One of our customers has a process that collects and prints documentation required for truck movement. Before a truck...
Foglight – Supersized Deployment Use Case
This large organization was using 6 different monitoring products. SCOM for windows, BMC for Linux, Riverbed Steel Central for APM, Oracle OEM for Oracle Databases, SCOM for SQL Server databases, VM...
Making Connections with Spotlight on SQL Server
Spotlight on SQL Server provides excellent real-time monitoring, workload analytics and more for SQL Server. You can download the complete software for a 30-day trail on as many systems as you'd like...