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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
One of the nice features in Foglight is the possibility to extend the existing monitoring capabilities by custom script agents. Unfortunately it is not possible to directly call PowerShell scripts wit...
