What’s New in Foglight 5.7.5.7
We are pleased to announce the release of Foglight 5.7.5.7 on February 25th, 2017. It continues a string of quarterly releases focused on usability, maintainability and quality. While I encourage yo...
Customize Alarm Key Values in Spotlight
Spotlight’s vast alarm customization capabilities enables users a wide variety of options. Setting alarm severity levels, their start and end threshold values, or disabling them completely are just a...
Spotlight Alarms and Powershell Execution
Spotlight notifies DBAs of performance issues via triggered alarm messages. More importantly, specific actions can be taken based on these alarms, by configuring the Alarm Actions feature of Spotlight...
The Importance of Performance Benchmarking to Decrease Op Ex
Throughout my career I have conversed with many IT leaders that have adopted the practice of measuring the performance of their technology assets by monitoring key performance indicators (or KPIs). M...
Bringing Order to Chaos
I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can u...
Foglight for Databases (SQL Server and Oracle): New Release – Version 5.7.5.35
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Foglight for SQL Server and Foglight for Oracle versions 5.7.5.35. This release provides the following significant enhancements: Performance In...
Foglight for Virtualization: Top 5 Reports You Should be Running (but probably aren’t!)
I often find Foglight for Virtualization environments that aren't taking full advantage of all the features of Foglight. One such feature is scheduled reports. Foglight comes with dozens of out-of-the...
Creating Rule for User-Defined Queries in Foglight
One of the powerful features of Foglight for Oracle and Foglight for SQL Server is the ability to enter your own database queries (SQL) and have the Foglight collector execute these and return data. T...
Foglight Skills 101: Send Emails when Alarms Fire
Foglight administrators and other Foglight performance monitoring users who are asked to configure alarms to send email notifications sometimes struggle if they miss a step or two in the process. Th...
Foglight for SQL Server: Business Intelligence Monitoring – SQL Server Integration Services
Microsoft has evolved their marketing over the past several years to focus on the fact that SQL Server is more than just a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). You may have noticed, that Mi...
Send a VM Performance Report to a User
If you are at all like many of the other Foglight administrators I speak with on a regular basis, you've become the master of the out-of-the-box Foglight dashboards and reports. You can use Foglight t...
How Do I Configure Foglight to Send Me Text Message Alerts?
I'm frequently asked by Foglight administrators how they can configure their FMS to send text message alerts to their phone. The process is rather straight forward, and this blog post will outline the...