“Rabbit, Rabbit!” Podcast Series Conclusion
If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? PILGRIMS! (Yep, a bona fide Dad joke) So, May 1st has come and gone and some of you may have been wondering why you hadn't seen this mon...
“Foglight Skills 101” Webcast Series
In April 2017, we started this webcast series directed specifically at existing Foglight administrators and users within your organization. We call the series, “Foglight Skills 101.” We present topic...
Spotlight and Litespeed – A Complementary Pair
Like popcorn with your movie, consider the natural pairing of Spotlight and Litespeed. If you are responsible for managing a SQLServer environment, keep reading. Spotlight - Proactively monitor your S...
gMSA account support means improved Foglight security with less effort
“Foglight has saved our bacon time and again,” you tell your boss. “I just wish it had gMSA account support. Then we wouldn’t have to administer usernames and passwords for our Foglight agents.” Wish ...
Announcing Quest®︎ Foglight®︎ v6.1 General Availability
Background We are excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.1. Foglight is the broadest, deepest database and infrastructure monitoring solution available with a long ...
Using Foglight to restart your windows services if they stop or fail.
I was helping a customer recently in relation to database monitoring and they asked if Foglight could also help them with their windows OS service monitoring. The answer was yes of course, the OS agen...
Filtering Email Alerts in Foglight Service Builder
In my previous post Adding Service Emails to Foglight I showed how you could get emails for alerts for a group of monitored objects. But what happens if you are seeing too many alerts in the email and...
Adding Service Emails to Foglight
Foglight has rules which fire alarms on specific events, but it can also fire alarms for a group of objects as part of the service builder configuration. This is important if you have a service, let’s...
“Rabbit, Rabbit!” – Podcast Ep 12 – Embracing AI in DataOps
RR Episode 12 – Embracing AI in DataOps Digital Transformation is happening before our eyes. In this Episode, Quest Senior Consultants, Dave Orlandi and Amit Parikh, talk about leveraging AI in DataOp...
Sneak peek of the new Foglight 6.1 feature: Flexible alarm notification
Flexible alarm notification helps reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) — New in Foglight 6.1 Foglight® by Quest® has always had robust alarm management capabilities, like the alarm templates wiz...
EnterpriseDB Postgres – Big Animal
Wouldn't it be nice if we all had a big animal to handle our heavy lifting and workloads? Introducing, EnterpriseDB's fully-managed Postgres database in the cloud, Big Animal. -> Get pumped! <- (choo...
Spotlight Instance Registration – Import From a File
For environments that have lots of instances to be monitored, registering each of them one by one can be a bit time-consuming. A time-saving alternative is to import your instance list from a file. S...