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...
Sneak peek of the new Foglight 6.1 feature: Flexible alarm notification
Flexible alarm notification helps reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) — New in Foglight 6.1 Foglight® by Quest® has always had robust alarm management capabilities, like the alarm templates wiz...
Foglight for IT OPS – A Genie approach – Foglight EMAIL INTEGRATION (Part 1)
We often get asked by customers how can they integrate Foglight with other products they own to streamline their daily operations. Based on my recent conversation with one of my customers and their IT...
Criticality of database performance tuning for your margins in hybrid cloud
Organizations face new challenges when they use or sell cloud-based applications. This post describes three use cases that pose challenges, as well as opportunities for cost-savings and improved custo...
Saving Money with Foglight: Part 2 – Enterprise Resource Management
This is the second in a multi-part series on how to leverage Foglight to save money within your IT budgets. To review the first part, managing monitoring vendor sprawl, check out the post linked here...
Announcing Quest®︎ Foglight®︎ v6.0 General Availability
Background We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.0. Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid en...
How to reduce alert notification noise with database monitoring tool
Your database monitoring solution is only as good as its ability to let you know about problems – hopefully before application users and revenue-generating systems are affected. But, too often, monito...
Multiply Cloud Management Cost Savings with Foglight Evolve Consolidation Advisor
The Quest Foglight Evolve Consolidation Advisor is designed to help those involved with cloud management plan future consolidations of existing environments. Those environments could exist of both vir...
“Rabbit, Rabbit!” – Podcast Ep 02 – Are You Ready for Change?
RR Episode 02 – Are You Ready for Change? In this Episode 2, Quest Senior Consultants, Dave Orlandi and Amit Parikh, discuss the importance of being ready for change and considerations around its impa...
Foglight Database Ports
I was trying to come up with a clever title for this post, and even googled "good network port jokes" but they were all blocked. Badum-Tiss.. For this post, we can refer to this general Foglight archi...
Ten Reasons Foglight is the Right Database Monitor for Your Business
Digital transformations are everywhere, and so are challenges Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especia...
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...