Vlog – Spotlight Architecture Overview
Are you looking for a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer? If so, you're in the right place! This short video reviews Spotlight's architecture and requirements. (2:59) Inst...
Ten Reasons Foglight is the Right Database Monitor for Your Business
Digital transformations are everywhere, and so are challenges Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especia...
Can Foglight Integrate with ‘X’? Probably…
One of the most common questions I am asked when speaking with evaluators of Foglight is, “Can Foglight integrate with <insert solution here>? …Remedy, ServiceNow, SCOM, Splunk, Teams... The list goes...
Spotlight Enterprise Workload Analysis
While your database handles requests from end-users, it starts to consume various resources. With increased number of requests, the database may suffer from resource waits. Excessive wait types and ti...
Getting the “All Clear” from Foglight
A customer asked how to implement and email that indicates an alarm has been cleared. In Foglight, there are typically several ways to do that. In this post, we'll look at creating a new rule that fi...
Five common risks to successfully managing multiple database platforms
Digital transformation is everywhere Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is maki...
“Foglight Skills 101” Tuning Expensive Queries
The Need for Speed in your Sql Server database View webcast here This webcast covered: Learn how to effectively use wait types to quickly identify bottlenecks and get clues on the best tuning approac...
Take the Guesswork out of Cloud Migrations with Foglight
Cloud migration is speeding up Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approx...
Lil’ Help?
Many of us don’t like to ask for directions…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVzRD_nWLQ&t=16s That said, getting advice, directions, help, or suggestions will provide a faster path to success. My ...
Series Finale – Automating Foglight Blackouts
Way back in 2020, these posts formed the building blocks of using the command line to automate alarm blackouts in Foglight: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In Part 3, we looked at adding objects (instances, hos...
Announcing Performance Investigator for Azure SQL DB
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight for Databases v5.9.7.20, featuring the new Performance Investigator (PI) for Azure SQL DB. Background PI is one of Foglight’s most ...
Automating Alarm Blackouts – Part 3
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight. In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for...