Quest Software is excited to announce our extended Spotlight® Cloud offering which will deliver deep performance diagnostics to both on-premises and cloud SQL Server environments from a single, innova...
In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For ou...
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the ...
Expand Foglight Monitoring Beyond Infrastructure View the webcast here This webcast covered: How to use script agents, User Defined Collections and the REST API to monitor things like freezer tempera...
In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, ...
I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal. If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on...
This use case came in recently - "How can we build an ‘exec’ view that doesn’t include a bunch of junk alarms?" This is a great case for the Service Builder and Alarm Filters. When you create a servi...
In this post, alarms were configured to only fire upon the instances contained within a Database Group. These groups are created and managed from the Databases dashboard, but underneath, they are real...
Spotlight reports are designed in SQL Server Report Definition files (RDL) and stored in the local installation folder of Spotlight client application making them accessible to Spotlight users. By def...
What has become a typical theme in the arena of Information Technology are the concerns around managing costs associated with these systems. Whether it be the capital and operating expenditures assoc...
The First 80 Hours as a Foglight Admin View the webcast here This webcast covered: Access to Support / Community Resources Version checks and upgrade requirements Deployment validation Security audit...
These are difficult times we are in now but we will persevere. Hopefully, you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy. Most of us are anxious to get back to some sort of normalcy. But, for no...
