I was trying to come up with a clever title for this post, and even googled "good network port jokes" but they were all blocked.
Badum-Tiss..
For this post, we can refer to this general Foglight architecture diagram.
The "Data Submission" and…
I was trying to come up with a clever title for this post, and even googled "good network port jokes" but they were all blocked.
Badum-Tiss..
For this post, we can refer to this general Foglight architecture diagram.
The "Data Submission" and…
Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especially cloud) and a more complex technical environment…
I recently worked with a customer on the following use case. They've successfully integrated Active Directory logins with Foglight and wish to match up an AD Group with a group on the Databases dashboard in order to implement User Level Access (ULA).…
A customer asked how to implement and email that indicates an alarm has been cleared. In Foglight, there are typically several ways to do that.
In this post, we'll look at creating a new rule that fires when an alarm event occurs. The event we'll focus…
Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is making it happen. As they take on new database platforms…
The Need for Speed in your Sql Server database
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We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight Evolve 9.3.
This release brings major product enhancements that have been requested by many of our customers, including (but not limited to) the following features:
Let’s face it, tuning SQL statements is time-consuming, often frustrating and just plain hard. For many years, I’ve been giving performance tuning presentations, and through those years I’ve managed to whittle it down to five simple manual tuning tips…
Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approximately 80-90% of companies today have cloud operations…
Is there a database skills gap for complex hybrid IT environments?
In research published by Unisphere Research in 2020, the database professionals they surveyed responded that 84% had two or more database platforms in use and 31% had four or more. That…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Foglight for Databases v5.9.7.20, featuring the new Performance Investigator (PI) for Azure SQL DB.
PI is one of Foglight’s most popular features. Its main functionality is multidimensional…
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight.
In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for an instance (eg. dbss_instance.name like '%YOW%').…
In this intro post, we looked at some basics of setting alarm blackouts via the command line. These commands can then be automated via script to include in a maintenance job, for example.
Any object can be referenced in the topology query - in this example…
There are two ways to manage blackouts in Foglight - from the UI and from the command line. The options are generally the same. The command line provides us the ability to automate the blackout by using the command line utility in our maintenance scripts…
As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud…
Few things are as frustrating for database professionals as the inability to track down the root cause of a performance issue. And when you’re under pressure to keep everything running smoothly, manually and inefficiently struggling to understand the…
While Foglight for SQL Server offers capabilities that go above and beyond most SQL Server monitoring products in the industry, Query Performance Monitoring is certainly a strength of the product that customers get significant of value out of. I recorded…
Expand Foglight Monitoring Beyond Infrastructure
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IT Administrators need to keep an eye on Availability, Performance, and Storage of mission-critical environments.
There are many things to consider as you develop a Monitoring and Diagnostics strategy.
Items to consider include:
The IoT, Internet of Things, has arrived. Sensors are everywhere, collecting more and more data about us and the world around us. Temperature, Humidity, Fluid Levels, Traffic counts, the status of devices and things like doors and elevators are being…
The First 80 Hours as a Foglight Admin
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Most of my blog topics come from customer questions and use cases. This is one I lost sleep over.
The use case was to limit a disk usage rule from firing on a specific host. It got bigger when we dug in a bit, as the rule should be limited to only virtual…
( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... )
We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.
A few years ago, I wrote this blog detailing how to get host services created on the Hosts dashboard to show up in the Service Operations Console.
Creating a service via the Hosts dashboard is quick and easy.. but the service definition is simply the…