Hearing you’re getting MySQL is like hearing you’ve been “volunteered” to pet sit your neighbor’s rabid ferret: There’s confusion, mild panic and the frustrating realization that someone else is saving money because you’re doing all the hard work.…
Hearing you’re getting MySQL is like hearing you’ve been “volunteered” to pet sit your neighbor’s rabid ferret: There’s confusion, mild panic and the frustrating realization that someone else is saving money because you’re doing all the hard work.…
Adopting PostgreSQL is not unlike adopting a crazed monkey: It’s new. It’s exciting. It’s also downright terrifying.
You’ve got questions.
What if I can’t handle it? How hard will it be to get it to perform well? Will it look…
Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by…
I had a customer who was curious if Foglight could be used to monitor MariaDB running in Amazon RDS. This customer was already monitoring SQL Server and MongoDB with Foglight, and was eager to see if it could extend to this new MariaDB based application…
Foglight 5.9.3 introduced the following three new WCF components to show collected metrics in a variety of ways and to better analyze the collected data.
Cost Director allows you to view the cost of running your datacenter like it’s Public Cloud.
Cost Director is included in Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 and no additional license required.
In 3 steps you will setup an organization structure, create…
How much is Azure costing me? How much do my VMs cost me in my datacenter? Should I migrate to the Cloud?
Understand the cost of my datacenter you ask?! You heard that correctly, FVE 8.8 is almost, almost, exclusively about managing the cost of running…
Our team is starting to see an uptick in Linux installs for Foglight components, specifically the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam). Most of these are done at the command line, which can make some settings less than obvious. Things get interesting when the…
Die Agenten in Foglight sammeln eine große Anzahl an Metriken, wie die CPU Utilization eines Hosts, die Memory Auslastung, die Anzahl der Ausführungen eines Statements usw.. Derived Metrics bieten die Möglichkeit, mit gesammelten Metriken zu rechnen und…
Do you also feel lost sometimes when searching for a specific instance on the database overview dashboard? If you monitor hundreds of databases it is easy to lose the overview but there are some options to quickly find the database you need.
Do you wonder how the Quest technical stuff creates cartridge files to hand over customized dashboard, reports or agents to you? Well, everyone can do that, this is no rocket science. And best is, you have all what you need available in your Foglight…
In Part 1 of this blog post, I review how you can get an evaluation copy and explain the various integration points from Quest’s monitoring solutions – Foglight and Spotlight Enterprise. You can find it here -> https://www.quest.com/community…
Am 10.4. 2018 findet das siebte Foglight Anwendertreffen in Köln statt. Das Treffen bietet Ihnen die Möglichkeit, sich über Neuheiten und Entwicklungen im Bereich Foglight zu informieren und Erfahrungen auszutauschen. Die Referenten kommen aus den technischen…
One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are:
The new year kicked off with some big news on January 3rd, 2018 with the news of the Meltdown and Spectre chipset vulnerabilities. There are a lot of resources available to understand the details and potential impact. This one from cnet.com is pretty…
Neben den klassischen Datenbankderivaten, spielt MySQL eine immer größere Rolle in den Unternehmen. An den täglichen Aufgaben im Umgang mit Datenbanken ändert sich jedoch nichts. Auch MySQL Datenbanken müssen verwaltet und auf ihre Performance und Verfügbarkeit…
I've done a number of posts recently that touch on Foglight administration, customization, or some of the more advanced capabilities of the product. I felt it was a good time to circle back on some of the more basic use cases that Foglight can help…
Just a quick update, in FVE 8.6 we have introduced a simple rule editor. With this you can create new alarms in 5 clicks and easily add email recipients. Check out the video below.
Creating rules in Foglight made easy.
Foglight has many out of the box rules to evaluate performance and availability conditions for your databases, virtual and physical infrastructure, web pages, network devices, etc. Once it has been running for some time, it's a good idea to evaluate which…
My favourite feature in Toad has always been the PL/SQL Profiler. I love the way it can profile your code executions is integrated with the editor. It is such an easy and visual feature to use.
So if you have Foglight for Oracle Performance Investiga…
Foglight reports can be extremely useful in broadening the reach of whatever monitoring you’ve got set up. Reports can be the mechanism for delivering PDF or Excel summaries of important information on the health and capacity of your databases,…
Recently, I spoke with a customer who's using Foglight for Oracle to monitor their RAC instance. They were able to successfully monitor the instance, but then asked "Why don't I see any data in the ASM tab?". I think this is a great question and I thought…
Come join Microsoft, Anvil.Works and Quest to learn how to maximize your Foglight platform during the Foglight Dev Camp 2017.
October 16