Performance Monitoring

Integrating Foglight alerts with incident.io can streamline your incident management process. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up this integration efficiently. A customer recently asked if Foglight alerts can integrate with Incident.…

This will be a short post, but I didn't want to gloss over this new feature in Foglight Cloud 7.3.1. SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) keeps workload data for two years, but there will be different granularity levels depending on the age of t...

In Foglight Cloud 7.3.1, you now have the ability to generate and view the execution plan for PostgreSQL. Within SQL Performance Investigator, you can choose your time frame and drilldowns. In this case I started with the most recent hour and isolate…

Foglight Cloud 7.3.1 went GA this week with a new feature to interact with alarms. It is a separate feature that will need to be enabled for your subscription. Once enabled, you can bring up an alarm and investigate further with the "Foglight Alarms …

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 and you want to know what the purpose of this pro…

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 environments, it's important to monitor them and setup&…

Over the years, Foglight evolved as a Data Observability Platform for multiple databases, Hybrid and Cloud infrastructures. In the rapidly evolving world of IT monitoring and observability, Open Telemetry has emerged as a game-changer. It provides a …

Foglight offers the capability to use scripts to build monitoring agents for any purpose. This blog describes a custom agent to monitor Informix instances. Please understand this cartridge as an example and template that can be customized and improve…

I recently helped a customer setup monitoring for over 400 instances in about 30 minutes. Darren Mallette  posted a blog on how easy this is using the Discover Multiple Instances option Setting up Monitoring for Multiple SQL Instances - Performa...

There are several ways in Foglight for SQL Server to add multiple instances for monitoring. From the Monitor option, there is a link at the top to discover multiple instances. You can use the command line installer for mass deployment or continue wi…

From Foglight version 6.3 onwards a lot of development has gone into updating the security of Foglight, that could be upgrading various components to the latest versions but also ensuring the agents negotiate the highest security protocols when conne…

Many organizations have a cloud strategy and one of which is moving your databases to cloud. If you have already/recently moved to AWS and started using AWS RDS Databases for example Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and if you are wondering how …