“Foglight Skills 101” Fine-Tuning Your Monitoring
Put to use some of the built-in facilities of Foglight to make your monitoring even more effective and valuable: registry variables, schedules, services, and the security model. Find More Time ...
Foglight for Oracle – Invalid Objects Filtering
With Foglight for Oracle, invalid objects are monitored and alerted upon for each schema. While it's possible to exclude schema's from monitoring, this can be tedious if you only have a handful of sch...
Quest Software sweeps DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards
Quest Software sweeps DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards
Quest Software takes top spots in every single category for the 2019 DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards, winning first in four categories. Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) provides insight covering da...
Updating Foglight Agent Manager JVM Settings
Depending on how many databases, hosts, etc. that you wish to monitor, the JVM memory settings for the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam) may need to be adjusted. There is a way to do this from the Fogl...
Five ways to be more proactive about DB2 performance problems
Before application users are affected! That’s when everyone would like to see database performance problems addressed. However, if you’re like many of the DB2 LUW customers I work with, and how I fu...
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...
We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 3 (of 3) – CRS and Exadata
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. These monitoring options come included at no additional cost and illustrate how broad ...
Improve your DB2 workload investigations with the new Foglight DB2 SQL Performance dashboard
Hello all. I am a sales engineer at Quest, so I assist customers with Foglight for DB2 installations and evaluations. People who manage performance of DB2 databases need a view in Foglight listing ...
Identify Long Running Queries with Foglight
April 15, 2019.....Let’s give a shout out to all those men and women running the Boston Marathon today. Man, running for that long must be taxing. Taxing…..wait…what day is it again? So, as my way of ...
The Wonderful World of Service Definitions in Foglight
A UI Query can be used to add either static or dynamic components to a service definition via the Service Builder dashboard. This in turn offers a great range of additional things Foglight can do. Thi...
I Didn’t Know SQL Optimizer Could do that!
In the first part of this series, we will learn how to export SQL statements from Foglight SQL Performance Investigator, and import them into SQL Optimizer. Start by opening SQL PI, and selecting a da...
Take the Shortcut – Dashboarding with UI Queries in Foglight
A UI Query can be used as a shortcut to building a custom dashboard or report. This can save time and frustration by publishing either frequently accessed or hard to find data in an easy to use spot. ...