“These go to eleven”
PostgreSQL has entered an exciting new chapter with the release of version 11 (10/18/18). This blog highlights some of the version 11 additions and improvements to PostgreSQL. ** The information share...
May All of Your Lights be Green this Holiday Season
Creating your own dashboard in Foglight is as easy as putting up the Festivus pole. In this post, a service containing all MySQL instances was created. A great feature of Foglight is the ability to c...
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...
MySQL DBAs Are Obsessed with This Freebie for Five Surprising Reasons
Hearing you’re getting MySQL is like hearing you’ve been “volunteered” to pet sit your neighbor’s rabid ferret: There’s confusion, mild panic and the frustrating realization that someone else is savin...
PostgreSQL Anxiety? Three Truths I Wish Someone Would’ve Told Me
Adopting PostgreSQL is not unlike adopting a crazed monkey: It’s new. It’s exciting. It’s also downright terrifying. You’ve got questions. What if I can’t handle it? How hard will it be to get it to p...
3 new lies for the cloud migration era — On-demand webinar
From https://www.flickr.com/photos/13923263@N07/1471150324 As I listen to customers talk about migrating application workloads to the cloud, I notice that they’re on board with cloud migration and app...
Monitor Postgres Disk Space Usage with Foglight
Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninte...
Monitor MariaDB running in Amazon RDS with Foglight for Databases
I had a customer who was curious if Foglight could be used to monitor MariaDB running in Amazon RDS. This customer was already monitoring SQL Server and MongoDB with Foglight, and was eager to see if...
Foglight 5.9.3 What is New! – Analytics View in Custom Dashboards
Foglight 5.9.3 introduced the following three new WCF components to show collected metrics in a variety of ways and to better analyze the collected data. Tree Map: Treemap displays hierarchical (tre...
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...
Not for the Faint-Hearted: Foglight and SSL Certificates
Our team is starting to see an uptick in Linux installs for Foglight components, specifically the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam). Most of these are done at the command line, which can make some settin...