Forward Foglight Alarms to a Pager
A customer would like to forward alarms from Foglight with all the appropriate information, such as alarm time, source, severity, message, and the rule name, to a pager script which in turn pages the ...
Configuring MS SQLServer 2012 for Foglight SSIS Monitoring
Foglight can now monitor the MS SQLServer BI stack – SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS. Foglight supports monitoring SSIS for MS SQLServer 2012 and above. For this SSIS monitoring, Foglight needs to access the SSI...
Manage Your Virtual Capacity with Foglight Capacity Director
In my last post, I covered the four stages of capacity management, and talked about some of the reasons why managing your virtual capacity is equally as important as physical capacity management. Now...
Installing Foglight Agent Manager to Raspberry Pi
Can Foglight run on a Raspberry Pi running Linux? This blog answers the question. Interestingly, I've been asked more than once recently if the Foglight Agent Manager can be installed on a Raspberry ...
Measuring the impact of changes on DB performance
As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments. There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be th...
Monitoring Exchange and Office 365 Online
Office 365 has three types of identity models for sign-in: cloud, synchronized, and federated. Cloud is the simplest, where users sign on directly. With synchronized sign-in, users are passed throug...
Why you need virtual capacity lifecycle management
The need for virtual capacity management is on the rise. In Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Capacity Management Tools’ report, published on January 30, 2015, it states “Through 2018, more than 30 percent...
How to Add the SQL PI Extension to an existing Foglight SQL Server agent
SQL Performance Investigator (SQL-PI) is an extension to the standard Foglight for SQL Server Cartridge, and adds Real-time and historical data. If you have used Performance Analysis for SQL Server, t...
Counting Down to Microsoft Ignite
Quest is a Platinum sponsor of Microsoft Ignite 2016, September 26-30 in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s only the second year of the event, but the conference is sold out – which makes it even more exciting t...
Change Auditor Application User Interface
The Application User Interface is simply Role Based Access control to the Function and Features of the Change Auditor when using client, it restricts access to the client interface based on permission...
I’ve Forgotten Why I’m Out of Memory: JVM Settings for Foglight
As you might suspect, I had difficulty coming up with a witty title for this blog. However, I rather enjoy people rolling their eyes when I make bad jokes. Given the topic is about memory settings for...
Monitoring the Internet of Things
In this blog series, I’ll cover why monitoring the Internet of Things (IoT) is important, along with how to go about doing it in a practical manner. What is the Internet of Things? The IoT is an ecosy...