Tips about URL Transformation Rules
Often times, excessive number of Java request types causes burden on the Foglight Management Sever and it affects the FMS performance. Also, You may not see the new request types from a newly added se...
Spotlight 12 Plan Visualization
A Picture is worth a thousand words! Execution plans can help us identify the performance hog sections of SQL code that impact CPU usage and I/O operations. Addressing these bottlenecks can ultimatel...
How DevOps can benefit from Continuous Monitoring of Application Databases
Managing production application databases has become more demanding than ever before not only due to the complexity of the applications they support, but also the very small margins for performance sl...
Setting up Foglight when SQL Server wants SSL
Updated in March 2021 - You now only need to check the "Use SSL" box when setting up your SQL Server connections in Foglight. This option appeared in the 5.9.x line of releases. A customer recentl...
Foglight Dashboard for Web Transactions
Wondering where to find the Webmonitor metrics for use on a custom dashboard? You will find them on the Data tab, but there is no pre-defined category for them. Start by checking the "show all" box, a...
Customizing Spotlight on SQL Server Alarms
Tweaking performance monitoring to work exactly the way you want Spotlight on SQL Server comes ready out-of-the-box to help you navigate your SQL Servers’ performance metrics in real-time. The settin...
Saving Foglight Reports to Disk
You can generate on-demand or scheduled reports in Foglight to a number of formats. These can be setup to be emailed at the time of generation, or they can be reviewed later via the Foglight UI (Repor...
Foglight Management Server 5.7.5.8 is now available
The Foglight team is pleased to announce that Foglight Management Server 5.7.5.8 is now available for download. Over the past year, we have been delivering quarterly releases focused on improving t...
Quest Customer Story: Foglight Performance Investigator Use Cases shared from the trenches
As a Sales Engineer for the Database Performance Monitoring team, one of the more rewarding aspects of my role is to learn about specific ways that our customers are leveraging Quest solutions. With t...
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 ...
Getting Started with the Storage SDK: Monitor any Storage Array with Foglight Storage Management SDK
Foglight Storage Management provides support for monitoring Dell Compellent (including Dell Storage Manager) & Equalogic, EMC Clariaon, CX, VMAX, VNX & Isilon, Hitachi AMS, VSP & USP, HP EVA and 3PAR,...
Modifying Rule Scope
Often times, we will have a situation where we don't want a Rule to alert on a specific host or set of hosts which are brought down for a reason, but we still want the rule to alert for the rest of th...