Track vCenter Change Events with Foglight
Change Analyzer has a really awesome feature called Change History. The Change History View displays all of the vCenter change events that occurred to VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores, and resource p...
Quest Customer Story: Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise Provides Twofold Benefit for International Application Delivery Company
It never gets old hearing about how Quest Performance Monitoring solutions offer actionable insight to mission-critical systems. Upon visiting a customer for a 'health check' of their environment, we ...
Foglight Tip: Silence Alarms Using Blackouts
During periods of scheduled maintenance, you may wish to prevent Foglight from sending alarms about the systems involved in the maintenance task. The use case is quite obvious. You know the system's d...
Foglight Tip: Track Management Server Startup Process
Wanted to share a quick tip for those that may be wondering "How is my Foglight Management Server's startup progressing?" When the Foglight service starts, perhaps after installation, or a server reb...
Hyper-V Virtual Switch Monitoring with Foglight
Hyper-V Virtual Switch Monitoring shows topology views from the Hyper-V Server to the Physical NIC(s), VMs to the Physical NIC(s),"Top VM" Send and Receive transfer rates and a very informative summar...
Performance Analysis to Performance Investigator – Part 3: Making the Move!
So you've now taken a look at the architectural differences and enhancements between Performance Analysis and Performance Investigator (if you haven't, check them out here). You've also hopefully bee...
Why be NORMAL?
When monitoring databases for performance, we certainly want to understand things like CPU spikes, memory pressure, I/O latency, and the like. If we see this type of performance, the next step is to t...
I Found My Foglight Hosts Services!
I previously shared a challenge I had with finding the services that were created in the Hosts dashboard. Ideally we want to be able to use them in the Hosts and Infrastructure dashboards, but also ad...
Optimizing Virtual Data Center with Foglight
10 years ago, the synergy between application developers/administrators and systems administrators was very simple: dev team is building applications and sysadmins are building servers. Dev team owned...
A Quest Approach to API Monitoring with Foglight
Quest has recognized the growing importance of APIs and has taken steps to ensure they are properly addressed in the most recent versions of Foglight. It’s a great way to augment Foglight’s Virtualiza...
Quest Customer Story: Large Charity Organization leverages Foglight’s Custom Dashboarding and Saves Hours Traversing Growth Trend Data
The Database Administration Manager communicated his need to efficiently gather and report upon growth data in the QA and Production environments. The project at hand was to build an accurate growth m...
Bridge the Monitoring Gap with Spotlight Developer
Recently, I presented our Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise solution to someone who expressed concerns about being notified of problems in the monitored environment. In this person's scenario, he men...