In 2022, online sales on Cyber Monday were approximately 11.3 BILLION dollars. This trend is not likely to reverse course. More of us are shopping online more regularly. We purchase items online, in part, because it is simply more convenien...
Why move from v.5 or v. 6? ....because 7.1!
For a detailed list and explanation of what is new in Foglight v. 7.1, please refer to the Foglight v. 7.1 Release Notes
....but here are some highlights....
User Interface Enhancements:
Breadc...
Foglight 6 development switched to using Angular for UI components. Examples of these are Alarm Templates, Notification Channels, Audit Log and the fantastic enterprise SQL view Query Insights.
One thing that is not in the new UI is the ability to cr…
Postgres v. 16 was released by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group on September 14, 2023, and has roughly 200 updates.
This blog highlights key improvements to Postgres introduced in this latest version.
It’s just FASTER.
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To begin working with Derived Metrics, I would like to start with collection metrics. What is a metric in Foglight? A metric is for example the CPU or memory utilization of a host. Foglight stores the collected values historically in the Foglight rep…
I was asked recently if there are any alerts when Foglight has a problem collecting data.
The answer is, there are several ways.
For SQL Server, there is a rule named "DBSS-Collection Status" that can be managed via alarm templates and noti...
I received a question today from a customer about alerting on index fragmentation within Foglight. We don’t provide this feature out of the box, but we could add this as a custom feature.
So, to begin with, let’s consider how we find thi...
So, this question came up recently with a customer. Lots of teams also have these additional questions that would make their lives so much easier.
I decided to mock up an example and document it for them. They have a process that dumps csv files in f…
It might appear initially that the Azure SQLDB dashboard is just a real time view (with an hour’s history) but actually there are lots of ways of view the data back over time.
The first thing you might have tried is clicking on a graph eg: DT...
In Part 2 – I have covered how to forward Foglight alarms to OpsGenie using RestAPI. (please see the link below)https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-for-it-ops-a-genie-approach-for-foglight-alarm-integra...