Customer Use Case
While working with a large Silicon Valley electronic Payment company we ran into a special use case that was not covered by Foglight’s regular reporting. The requirement came from a business unit that was sharing a VMWare Cluster…
While working with a large Silicon Valley electronic Payment company we ran into a special use case that was not covered by Foglight’s regular reporting. The requirement came from a business unit that was sharing a VMWare Cluster…
Wanted to share a quick tip for those that may be wondering "How is my Foglight Management Server's startup progressing?" When the Foglight service starts, perhaps after installation, or a server reboot, you may be greeted with the following…
For those of you that have been using Foglight for some time may have seen how the solution not only captures and retains metric data historically, but also applies baselines to estimate the system performance and help with system monitoring and planning…
If you’d like to try out Foglight for Databases or Foglight for SQL Server, you can download the full software for a 30-day evaluation, and one of us here at Quest will be happy to assist you with getting it set up. The brief Installation Requirements…
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Foglight for SQL Server and Foglight for Oracle versions 5.7.5.35. This release provides the following significant enhancements:
This large organization was using 6 different monitoring products. SCOM for windows, BMC for Linux, Riverbed Steel Central for APM, Oracle OEM for Oracle Databases, SCOM for SQL Server databases, VMWare for VM monitoring, and Empirix for web transaction…
A Brief Walk-Through of SQL Performance Investigator
In a previous Foglight for Databases/SQL Server blog post, I provided a guide for navigating your database servers’ performance metrics in real-time. That post showed you how to identify your…
Over the years, I have met, worked and learned from a number of experts in Performance Management field. These are professionals that are dedicating most or all of their times supporting…
I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can use it to help manage the growth of his virtualized…
Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container. A container is lightweight and portable, which make it easy…
Foglight REST APIs have been firstly introduced in Foglight from version 5.7.5.7.
Now, we embrace Foglight 5.9.2 release with awesome REST API new features as well as improvements which might help you to save your time working with Foglight.
If you didn…
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…
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…
Having fun with the "SQL de Mayo" theme at the conference
One of the best things about working for Quest has been the numerous opportunities we get to participate in conferences, user groups and meet-ups related to the database technologies…
A Picture is worth a thousand words!
Execution plans can help us identify the performance hog sections of SQL code that impact CPU usage and I/O operations. Addressing these bottlenecks can ultimately help us achieve the best execution times. What if…
Finding where and how things are getting locked up
Aside from IO bottlenecks, locking-related problems are the pains most commonly mentioned in the demos that we here at Quest Software provide for customers seeking database management performance tools…
Understanding the processes and configurations causing your bottlenecks
IO is the single most important metric to know for creating optimal performance of your database systems. To understand it, you’ll need to know the processes, resources and configurations…
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…
In the recent 5.7.5.50 release of Foglight for SQL Server, a change was made to the TempDB drilldown. Specifically, the Sessions tab would formerly show the current sessions, regardless of the time range selected on the dashboard. Now, it will allow you…
One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are:
Naturally, it's VERY important to know when things are going wrong with our monitored instances. What's not helpful is the dreaded "False Positive." You know the scenario I'm about to describe. It's 03:00 and you're sleeping soundly and dreaming of the…
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 simply expires after the 30 days. There are a couple…
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…
I recently spoke to a user of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise who wanted to be able to drill into the individual SQL Server instances that are participating in an Availability Group. The customer had successfully created a connection to the Availability…
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…