The First 80 Hours as a Foglight Admin
This webcast covered:
- Access to Support / Community Resources
- Version checks and upgrade requirements
- Deployment validation
- Security audit
- Alarm review
- Report Setup
- Access to dashboards for users, specifically SQL Performance Investigator
- And if time allows, considering other monitors for network, web, etc.
Foglight Skills 101 – First 80 Hours – April 30 2020.pdf
Tips for Rule and Alarm Management
This webcast covered:
- Best practices for altering rules
- Rule conditions
- Rule actions (defining what takes place when an alarm fires)
- Rule behaviors (do you want to see the actual frequency of a triggered alarm, or more of a sampling?)
- Scoping of rules and alert threshold values to finely tune when, and for what, an alarm fires
Minimize the Noise – Analyze and Adjust Your Database Alarms
This webcast covered:
- How to configure database alarm settings including setting thresholds
- How to perform alarm analysis for tuning of alarms
- How to copy alarm settings between different servers
- How to set up notifications
- How to clear old alarms
Broaden the Reach of Performance Insights Using Reports
This webcast covered:
- Use the drag-and-drop interface to create reports containing selected metrics and views
- Share your report designs with other Foglight users, or keep them private
- Use the report templates that are already installed with your Foglight cartridges
- Schedule reports, save them to files, and email them to people in your organization
Insights from Foglight
This webcast covered:
- Advisories – Are automatically-generated and comprehensive reports which focus on specific performance issues discovered by Foglight.
- Comparison – Lets you see what specific new activities within your server that are responsible for the performance changes you are seeing.
- Performance Highlights – Filters through server load data to show you top activity from a number of different angles.
- Change Tracking – Helps you find configuration, schema and execution plan changes that could be affecting performance
