One new feature that reduces the need to log into your management server to see what is being written to the log files is the LogAnalyzer.

Foglight has a lot of beautiful built in features that are just waiting to be discovered, this article is trying to describe some of these nice features.

A blog describing the use of Java Single Trace with Foglight 5 to pin point the source of slowness, time-outs and exceptions.

Foglight manages many different domains and there's always something new to learn about how Foglight addresses real-world problems in those domains. There's plenty of interesting videos covering applications, databases, virtualization, infrastructure, and more linked from http://www.quest.com/newview.

One of the benefits of the Foglight 5 Oracle instance agent is to identify those Oracle sessions that have performed the most I/O or consumed the most CPU at each collection interval.   The text of the session's most recently executing SQL statement  (the SQL Hog) can, optionally, be saved by Foglight for future examination and possible tuning.   This blog explains how to find that SQL.

Is TOAD required for Foglight for Oracle EBusiness Suite? 

With the addition of a single point of view management interface technology issues (I.e. alerts and performance exceptions) as well as Service Level Management policies will be presented to technical operations personnel and business leaders in terms that they can understand and apply to their objectives. They will have an opportunity to take control of the IT linkage to their business by adding Service Level Management capabilities to its offerings.

 A Blog explaining how to add a Foglight dashboard as a SharePoint WebPart.

Foglight for VMWare VMAlarms dashboard flow is a bit different than the Foglight alarms dashboard but once customers understand the flow, navigation is fast and easy. This is specifically important when fine tuning the rules and alarm to fit your preferred settings as a quick flow from alarms to rules to variables is the one that is repeated frequently.

My name is Pontus Rydin and I am a Senior Solutions Architect with Quest Software, specialized in Foglight customization, integration and Java Monitoring.

In this article, I am going to discuss Event Driven rules and how they can be used for notification and integration purposes.

With the release of Foglight 5.2.3 comes a rich set of updated resources to help you take advantage of the new product features.

These resource links are available from SupportLink, but you can get them all from one place here, including the new "how-to" videos.

Hello all. Statsinger here. I'm one of Quest's pre-sales guys and I spend a fair amount of time working with the Foglight 5 JavaEE agent. I thought I’d introduce myself and start a discussion on how this agent processes application request information and some of the considerations involved in tuning its behavior. A subsequent posting will get into some hands-on examples of working with the configuration settings.

The JavaEE agent is a fairly sophisticated beast. It can leverage Java management protocols such as JMX or IBM’s PMI to provide detailed information on the health and status of JavaEE application server instances, and it also provides performance monitoring and diagnostics for incoming requests made against the applications running on those servers. ... Read More »

This tip will describe how response time gets calculated, and how it can be configured, using the SQL2005 agent for SQL Server 2005.

Retention Policies specify when and how monitored data is sampled, aggregated and purged from the Foglight Database. Configuring basic data Retention Policies in Foglight 5 is easy. Here's how.

The rich, interactive Foglight UI allows you to monitor your critical business services, applications and technical infrastructure.  It also provides a mechanism to manage that infrastructure, and the administration of your Foglight implementation, without using the Foglight UI.  The Foglight command-line interface lets you automate your business logic by writing scripts, deploy and create agents, install and activate cartridges, create and manage users, manage licenses and many other tasks.

Every quarter at Quest, we go through a series of business reviews with executive management.  Each business unit prepares a summary of the business, key findings, and action plans for the coming quarter.  We take three full days to review each business individually with stakeholders representing a cross-section of the company from R&D to sales to PSO to finance and everything in between.

In environments with multiple agents of a particular type, one can edit the agent properties individually or for all of the agents of that type at the same time.

"I like the new reporting feature within Foglight, and I'm pretty happy with the generated reports.  However, I'd like to replace the Quest Software logo with my own corporate logo.  How do I do that?"

It’s been very exciting here in Quest land in these last few weeks. I’ve officially been with Quest for 1 year and I’m as excited as I was the first day. The breadth and depth of the offerings around Foglight is simply amazing.

Building on the last post, Service Level Management also has a few definitions in the Industry. 

Over the last month or two I have been delivering a presentation highlighting the challenges of monitoring a virtual infrastructure, especially when it comes to the application workloads running within the virtual environment.  This presentation has been very well received, and I can honestly say that with the assistance of a solid marketing team, may be one of the best presentations I've delivered.