“License and Registration, please…” Spotlight
So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It ...
Integrate Foglight by Sending SNMP Traps
Many customers ask how they might integrate Foglight Alarms into other 3rd party monitoring tools. One way to accomplish this is to send SNMP traps in response to a Foglight alarm. To configure Fog...
How Do You Solve a Problem with Maria(DB)? Or Cassandra Or Mongo or SQLServer?
Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein; but the title fits. In addition to listening to the scores of old musicals, one of my hobbies is watching the weather. I have about 20 years of weather data in ...
Saving Foglight Reports to Disk
You can generate on-demand or scheduled reports in Foglight to a number of formats. These can be setup to be emailed at the time of generation, or they can be reviewed later via the Foglight UI (Repor...
Slacking off? How to Send Foglight Alarms to #slack
This post will show how to integrate Foglight alarms into a #slack channel. It is a very easy and quick process. The longest step will likely be to request email app access from your slack admin. Once...
Creating Rule for User-Defined Queries in Foglight
One of the powerful features of Foglight for Oracle and Foglight for SQL Server is the ability to enter your own database queries (SQL) and have the Foglight collector execute these and return data. T...
How to Turn Off Specific Foglight Alarms
In a previous post, we learned how to disable specific Foglight alarm severities. For example, maybe you don't want a warning alert when cpu utilization is only at 70% - if so, you can disable that, w...
Fun with the Foglight Rule Editor
A previous post showed how to modify a registry variable to apply a value to a specific host. It would be good if the actual value that is going to be used when the rule fires could be validated. The ...
Setting Different Alarm Thresholds for Different Hosts
In a previous post, the Rules dashboard was used to show how to modify the global value of an alarm threshold. For this particular rule, that value would then apply to all hosts that are being monitor...
Why be NORMAL?
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...