"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to...
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.
When using the ...
Foglight ships with a rich set of pre-configured rules to alert you when issues arise with your databases.
The default action is to put an alarm message on the dashboards within Foglight. Email notifications aren't enabled by default - but it's an ea…
Most of us have watched software demonstrations where the presenter “saves the best for last”. Is this not a disservice? Everyone’s time is valuable. So, why not have the most important information at the start? This approach is use...
“Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…
Part 3 concludes this series on Foglight and using SQL PI to quickly find, diagnose, and fixed inefficiencies in your database environments. In Part 1, we reviewed workload and poorly performing SQL statements. In Part 2, we covered the differe...
Part 2 of this series will show you how to tune the queries you found by using Workload Analysis (see Part 1). Additionally, we'll look at the different 'Context' dimensions to help you quickly focus on the right problem.
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Database performance issues are a major contributor to the application slowdowns which we all face every day.
DBAs, developers and IT professionals have a daunting task of deciphering the large number of factors that contribute to database wait time.…
"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…
In this post, we looked at how to create an alarm template via the Databases dashboard.
If you followed the steps outlined, you would've ended up in the Alarm Templates dashboard with a new template.
You can also get to Alarm Templates directly from …
With the release of Foglight version 6, alarm management has been simplified with the use of alarm templates.
You can access Alarm Templates directly from the left-hand panel in the new UI. However, if you've upgraded from a previous version, it hel…