Understand that this is a general, high-level guide outlining the steps you should expect to take during a Foglight for SQL Server upgrade. Since environments and upgrade circumstances are often diffe...
As a DBA, you are responsible for many things, not to mention the ever changing landscape that is your database environment. Documenting the server inventory is essential as it will come in good use ...
Organizations are as varied as the people working within them. Some organizations have groups that are focused on specific applications. Some organizations have people responsible for specific databas...
We often get questions from customers wondering how much overhead will be put on a database server when monitoring that server with Foglight for SQL Server and/or Foglight for Oracle. This blog post ...
Some users only require simple access to Foglight dashboards, ideally being able to skip the logon step. In Foglight Server version 5.7.5.7, the user security option of an auth token was introduced. M...
Managing production application databases has become more demanding than ever before not only due to the complexity of the applications they support, but also the very small margins for performance sl...
Updated in March 2021 - You now only need to check the "Use SSL" box when setting up your SQL Server connections in Foglight. This option appeared in the 5.9.x line of releases. A customer recentl...
The backend repository for the Foglight Performance Investigator is based on Infobright, an analytics engine for machine generated data. However, you can connect natively via anything that can connect...
As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments. There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be th...
SQL Performance Investigator (SQL-PI) is an extension to the standard Foglight for SQL Server Cartridge, and adds Real-time and historical data. If you have used Performance Analysis for SQL Server, t...
