To compare is to measure, estimate, or make note of two or more “ things’ “ similarities and/or differences. It helps us better understand the items. A versus B. Sometimes it is done to learn which on...
We’re excited to announce that with Spotlight version 12.3, the Plan Visualizer feature now includes several new enhancements. In my last blog, I covered the Plan Visualizer feature included in versio...
During installing of an database agent Foglight requests an admin account to grant the needed database privileges to the Foglight database user. In some environments it is not allowed to do a remote a...
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...
A customer recently asked if there was a way to find the top application servers that were placing load on their database instances. With Foglight Performance Investigator, it is very easy. Start with...
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...
Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues. The Workload Analyzer o...
We often get asked about the breadth and depth of Foglight when it comes to its monitoring scope. Whether it support for a multitude of relational, open source and NoSQL database platforms or providi...
Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services. In this (Part 1) blog, the ...
Congratulations! You have Foglight installed and it is collecting meaningful performance data. There’s no doubt it is providing a ‘smorgasbord’ of actionable information about your mission-critical en...
Do you also feel lost sometimes when searching for a specific instance on the database overview dashboard? If you monitor hundreds of databases it is easy to lose the overview but there are some optio...
Having fun with the "SQL de Mayo" theme at the conference One of the best things about working for Quest has been the numerous opportunities we get to participate in conferences, user groups and meet...
