Hyper-V Virtual Switch Monitoring shows topology views from the Hyper-V Server to the Physical NIC(s), VMs to the Physical NIC(s),"Top VM" Send and Receive transfer rates and a very informative summar...
So you've now taken a look at the architectural differences and enhancements between Performance Analysis and Performance Investigator (if you haven't, check them out here). You've also hopefully bee...
When monitoring databases for performance, we certainly want to understand things like CPU spikes, memory pressure, I/O latency, and the like. If we see this type of performance, the next step is to t...
I previously shared a challenge I had with finding the services that were created in the Hosts dashboard. Ideally we want to be able to use them in the Hosts and Infrastructure dashboards, but also ad...
10 years ago, the synergy between application developers/administrators and systems administrators was very simple: dev team is building applications and sysadmins are building servers. Dev team owned...
Quest has recognized the growing importance of APIs and has taken steps to ensure they are properly addressed in the most recent versions of Foglight. It’s a great way to augment Foglight’s Virtualiza...
Recently, I presented our Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise solution to someone who expressed concerns about being notified of problems in the monitored environment. In this person's scenario, he men...
Customizing and Automating Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise Reports In my previous post, I wrote about configuring and executing reports using Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. The purpose of thi...
I'm surprised by the number of people that aren't aware that our Spotlight Performance Monitoring tool provides a tremendous number of reports. I suspect this is because we do not create the Spotlight...
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise‘s main purpose in life is to inform you of SQL Server performance problems, and then give you a quick way to diagnose their root causes so you can take action quickl...
Configuring alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enteprise is quite easy. Configuring alarms across multiple connections, however, wasn’t always so easy. In versions prior to 11.5, you were required to s...
Summary This is one of those special Enterprise Monitoring use cases that I mentioned in my last blog post; The Not So Obvious Enterprise System Monitoring Essentials. While this is not the only way ...
