By now you may have noticed that I focus on parts of Foglight that you can easily customize in order to solve your specific use cases. We'll build on the previous post on User-Defined Collections (UDC's) in Foglight.
In the previous post...
In this post, some tips for working with User-Defined Queries (UDC's) were introduced.
We left off with the idea of creating a custom dashboard showing UDC results from multiple instances.
The Foglight data model is organized with a controlling r...
The ability to enter your own queries into Foglight for SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 opens up a world of additional data that you can use with Foglight. These are called User-Defined Collections, or UDC's for short.
There are some nuances to using them…
I've written about the Service Builder before, but I wanted to step back and go through the steps to create a "simple" service definition. This one will simply have some Oracle instances and some hosts (eg. App server, web server, etc.)
We start with…
Quest Software is excited to announce our extended Spotlight® Cloud offering which will deliver deep performance diagnostics to both on-premises and cloud SQL Server environments from a single, innovative SaaS platform.
Background
Two years ago, ...
In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For our customers using Foglight for Cross Platfor...
OK, who took my Postgres tile? Where is my MySQL tile?
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If you recently updated your Foglight license file, you may need to take a few additional administrative steps.
1. Navigate to Administration > Cartridges (Cart...
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.&n...
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the other non-important ones.
Exclusion lists can be c…
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The conversation continues...
Jim: " Tell me more! "
Kim: " Foglight is Quest's award-winning cross-DBMS platform monitoring and diagnostics solution. Think of Foglight as a monitoring platform. It uses ...