Index for Foglight for Database Webcasts
Quick Start Guide to Foglight (5) You’ve just been handed access to Foglight. Now what? These basic sessions will help any NEW Foglight administrator or user get familiar with the tool. We suggest you...
Evaluating Foglight vs Oracle Enterprise Manager
As part of most any database monitoring software evaluation, it includes comparing that software to similar solutions. Logically, it often means doing head-to-head comparisons to database tools that c...
“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...
Please vote before May 11! 2022 DBTA Reader’s Choice Awards
Please vote before May 11! 2022 DBTA Reader’s Choice Awards
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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...
Setting up Email Notification for Specific Objects in Foglight
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the ...
Adding Email Notification to Database Alarms
Foglight ships with a rich set of pre-configured rules to alert you when issues arise with your databases. The default action is to put an alarm message on the dashboards within Foglight. Email notifi...
Multi-dimensional performance analysis and monitoring using Foglight’s SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) – Part 3
Part 3 concludes this series on Foglight and using SQL PI to quickly find, diagnose, and fixed inefficiencies in your database environments. In Part 1, we reviewed workload and poorly performing SQL s...
Multi-dimensional performance analysis and monitoring using Foglight’s SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) – Part 2
Part 2 of this series will show you how to tune the queries you found by using Workload Analysis (see Part 1). Additionally, we'll look at the different 'Context' dimensions to help you quickly focus...
Multi-dimensional performance analysis and monitoring using Foglight’s SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) – Part 1
Database performance issues are a major contributor to the application slowdowns which we all face every day. DBAs, developers and IT professionals have a daunting task of deciphering the large number...
Using Alarm Templates in Foglight 6
In this post, we looked at how to create an alarm template via the Databases dashboard. If you followed the steps outlined, you would've ended up in the Alarm Templates dashboard with a new template. ...
Introduction to Alarm Templates in Foglight 6
With the release of Foglight version 6, alarm management has been simplified with the use of alarm templates. You can access Alarm Templates directly from the left-hand panel in the new UI. However, ...