Custom Dashboards and Reports in Foglight 7
Foglight 6 development switched to using Angular for UI components. Examples of these are Alarm Templates, Notification Channels, Audit Log and the fantastic enterprise SQL view Query Insights. One th...
Alerting when Foglight Data Collection has a Problem
I was asked recently if there are any alerts when Foglight has a problem collecting data. The answer is, there are several ways. For SQL Server, there is a rule named "DBSS-Collection Status" that can...
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...
Setting Different Thresholds for Tablespaces
We're often asked how to create an alarm threshold exception for certain types of objects. Using the Databases -> Configure Alarms dashboard, you can change thresholds at the instance level. That work...
Exploring User Level Access for Databases
I recently worked with a customer on the following use case. They've successfully integrated Active Directory logins with Foglight and wish to match up an AD Group with a group on the Databases dashbo...
Getting the “All Clear” from Foglight
A customer asked how to implement and email that indicates an alarm has been cleared. In Foglight, there are typically several ways to do that. In this post, we'll look at creating a new rule that fi...
Automating Alarm Blackouts in Foglight
There are two ways to manage blackouts in Foglight - from the UI and from the command line. The options are generally the same. The command line provides us the ability to automate the blackout by usi...
Can you believe this Administration?!
What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics? Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglig...
Introduction to UI Queries in Foglight
Think of a UI Query as a shortcut to data that you can use in a report, dashboard, service definition, etc. This post will show how to get started building queries. The example today will be to get a...
Groovy, groovier, grooviest: Getting metrics collected by Foglight
What if you could get a list of all metrics and observations collected by Foglight, and have the ability to filter/sort by cartridge and topology type? That would be groovy. My colleague Mark.Bai deve...
Not for the Faint-Hearted: Foglight and SSL Certificates
Our team is starting to see an uptick in Linux installs for Foglight components, specifically the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam). Most of these are done at the command line, which can make some settin...
Reporting on Changes to Foglight Registry Variables
Registry variables in Foglight are mostly used as placeholders in rules in order to avoid hard-coding in values. For example, a rule to check cpu utilization over a certain percentage could be coded ...