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 helps to start using the familiar alarm configuration workflow. There is a new tab for "Alarm Template Settings." This allows you to do 2 tasks.
Far too often, organizations look at monitoring solutions as "nice to have", or better put, as luxury items that make the lives of IT administrators easier, but come at a cost. This series will look at ways that organizations have saved money off of their IT budgets, by bringing Foglight into their environment. The first post in this multi-part series will focus on consolidating an organizations cross platform database monitoring under a single solution: Foglight for Databases.
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.0. Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom infrastructure monitoring and optimization capabilities for your hybrid IT stack including databases, cloud infrastructure, operating systems, hypervisors, containers and more.
Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especially cloud) and a more complex technical environment that can have performance issues with many possible causes. Speed, always-on, outstanding customer experience, and cost control are the business requirements driving digital transformations and resulting in performance and risk challenges facing database operations teams. What are those challenges?
Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is making it happen. As they take on new database platforms, analytics tools and other digital transformation initiatives, an organization’s ability to empower their people and processes with data can be a game-changer.
As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud – a mixture of one or more cloud providers, one or more cloud configurations and on-premises systems – becomes reality.
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.
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 Platform Databases this means being able to automatically have an Alert create an incident in the ITSM solution used for Incident Management.
SQL Server provides us with a number of high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Two of them are Always On Availability Groups and Always On Failover Cluster offerings. In order to leverage these options, they themselves need to be constantly evaluated. Therefore, monitoring the health and status of these Always On instances is critical, but how do we optimally configure them in Spotlight? My aim is to provide insight to the configuration steps based on the type of Always On instance.
IT Administrators need to keep an eye on Availability, Performance, and Storage of mission-critical environments. There are many things to consider as you develop a Monitoring and Diagnostics strategy.
