On a customer call recently and the customer was asking if our Foglight for Oracle agent included an alert for blocking locks. This is a rare question for me, since Oracle database customers don’t ten...
So here is an interesting example of using Quest solutions together. What if you have Foglight, you are monitoring a database, you find a SQL Server stored procedure that is getting slower, and slower...
Every day we see technologies evolve and we are requiring to handle more data and tasks, this applies to multiple services and data pipelines that maintain them. Whilst we adapt to fast changing envir...
In Part 1 – I have covered OpsGenie Email Integration - https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-for-it-ops-a-genie-approach---foglight-email-integration-part-1 . ...
I was helping a customer recently in relation to database monitoring and they asked if Foglight could also help them with their windows OS service monitoring. The answer was yes of course, the OS agen...
In my previous post Adding Service Emails to Foglight I showed how you could get emails for alerts for a group of monitored objects. But what happens if you are seeing too many alerts in the email and...
Foglight has rules which fire alarms on specific events, but it can also fire alarms for a group of objects as part of the service builder configuration. This is important if you have a service, let’s...
Part 3 concludes this series on Foglight and using SQL PI to quickly find, diagnose, and fixed inefficiencies in your database environments. In Part 1, we reviewed workload and poorly performing SQL s...
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 ...
What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics? Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglig...
A UI Query can be used to add either static or dynamic components to a service definition via the Service Builder dashboard. This in turn offers a great range of additional things Foglight can do. Thi...
A UI Query can be used as a shortcut to building a custom dashboard or report. This can save time and frustration by publishing either frequently accessed or hard to find data in an easy to use spot. ...
