Where can UI Queries be Used in Foglight?
In my Introduction to UI Queries post, the building of a simple query to return all SQL Server Agent Jobs was shown. Let's back up a step, and take a look at where UI Queries can be used in Foglight....
The right way to migrate to the cloud: All in, but with the right tools – New white paper
As you migrate to the cloud, would you go all in with a pair of nines? If you did, you probably wouldn’t let your boss know, would you? More companies are making plans to migrate to the cloud and goin...
Simple Way to Add E-Mail Notifications
Foglight has a robust rules engine for alerting and notification. It's often the case that you can get to the same end zone in Foglight by many different plays. Using the Service Builder is an easy wa...
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...
What is Cost Director ? – Foglight for Virtualization 8.8
Cost Director allows you to view the cost of running your datacenter like it’s Public Cloud. Cost Director is included in Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 and no additional license required. In 3 ste...
Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 is here and its all about understanding the cost, not just the performance, of your hybrid datacenter
How much is Azure costing me? How much do my VMs cost me in my datacenter? Should I migrate to the Cloud? Understand the cost of my datacenter you ask?! You heard that correctly, FVE 8.8 is almost, a...
Analysis Time. Foglight & Rogue OS Processes
Investigating a rogue OS process is a pain; digging through the multitude of metrics, different times of days have different outcomes, alarms that come and go and customer complaints to accompany it a...
Foglight for Virtualization – A Year in Review
Wow! What a year and what a way to wrap it up. Foglight for Virtualization 8.7.5 is out and with it brings a brand new SaaS offering from Quest that enables connectivity from any Foglight for Virtuali...
You’re Fired! Wait, What has Fired?
Foglight has many out of the box rules to evaluate performance and availability conditions for your databases, virtual and physical infrastructure, web pages, network devices, etc. Once it has been ru...
My Foglight License Expired – Now What?
In some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator. Start by navigating to the Administration dash...
How To: Creating Alarms and Rules in Foglight for Virtualization
Just a quick update, in FVE 8.6 we have introduced a simple rule editor. With this you can create new alarms in 5 clicks and easily add email recipients. Check out the video below. Creating rules in ...
Problems monitoring AWS or Azure? Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager is Coming Soon.
Cloud hosted infrastructure, or IaaS, is growing and businesses globally are now challenged by multi-hypervisor, hybrid cloud environments. This new and unique combination not only further complicates...