“Foglight Skills 101” Foglight Architecture
Understand how Foglight’s architecture can affect the availability and the performance of your monitoring. Best Practices for Architecture Configuration & Scalability View webcast here This webcast...
“Foglight Skills 101” Workflows
Learn how to interpret and react to various types of alarms and to problematic resource usage by workloads. Equip yourself to track down causes of degrading performance. Dashboards for various IT st...
“Foglight Skills 101” Reporting and Custom Views
Many Foglight users wish to produce reports or custom views that visualize important key performance indicators about some of the monitored things in their environment. Reports can be produced and sh...
“Foglight Skills 101” Fine-Tuning Your Monitoring
Put to use some of the built-in facilities of Foglight to make your monitoring even more effective and valuable: registry variables, schedules, services, and the security model. Find More Time ...
“Foglight Skills 101” Alarms
Foglight fires alarms when something being monitored is experiencing a lower- or higher-than-desired level, or “abnormal” behavior. You can help Foglight understand what “reasonable” levels of perfor...
Migrating Oracle Databases to Amazon Web Services
There are many advantages of migrating databases to a cloud services provider such as Amazon AWS, such as faster provisioning, increased reliability, flexible resource scaling and reduced CapEx. Howev...
Another way to gather VMware metrics on SQL Server hosts
In this post, I alluded to 2 ways to capture VMware metrics with Foglight for SQL Server. The steps below apply to SQL Server running on Windows only. Since VMware Tools pulls metrics into the VM, we ...
Correlating VMware metrics with SQL Server Performance – in 2 Parts
There are a couple easy, free ways to get VMware metrics collected by Foglight for SQL Server. This first part shows the easier way. When setting up the monitor for SQL Server, you can select (or not)...
“Read me a story about cloud migration.” (And How It Can Cost a Fortune) [new eBook]
“Read me a story about cloud migration,” said the teddy bear to the little girl. “I left that one at home," said the girl. "But I can read this one to you.” The little girl opened her favorite book. “...
Introducing user level access with Spotlight 13.0
Spotlight 13.0 introduces a brand new feature of managing access to monitored connections at the user level. It provides the ability to assign or deny a user access to a set of connections that have b...
Updating Foglight Agent Manager JVM Settings
Depending on how many databases, hosts, etc. that you wish to monitor, the JVM memory settings for the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam) may need to be adjusted. There is a way to do this from the Fogl...
Five ways to be more proactive about DB2 performance problems
Before application users are affected! That’s when everyone would like to see database performance problems addressed. However, if you’re like many of the DB2 LUW customers I work with, and how I fu...