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We are excited to announce a new release of Foglight 8.1.0 . Look what's new: Integration Hub to easily connect Foglight with other...
Type: Product Created: December 10, 2025None at this time
What are the known issues for the SAP ASE (Sybase) cartridge?
Created: December 11, 2025There is a discrepancy between Oracle's own `v$session.SECONDS_IN_WAIT` and blocking duration shown in SQL PI. This data is reported by SQL PI...
Created: December 9, 2025User does not see the statement details when clicking on the statement in the blocking history dashboard. The user sets the "Tops" drop down to...
Revised: December 16, 2025Are there plans to convert the SQL Server cartridge to use credentials and lockboxes for the Database login credentials?
Revised: December 12, 2025Known issues for the DB2 cartridge
Revised: December 12, 2025Known issues with the Azure SQL cartridge
Revised: December 12, 2025What are the known issues for the Oracle cartridge?
Revised: December 12, 2025What are the known issues for SQL Server cartridge
Revised: December 12, 2025Why would Foglight be using xp_cmdshell for monitoring the server?
Revised: December 12, 2025Is it possible to change the severity of the keywords in the matching list? If a new keyword is added to the matching list, which severity will...
Revised: December 9, 2025How to exclude SQL Server jobs from being monitored so that alarms are not received for these jobs?
Revised: December 9, 2025In an Oracle RAC environment can the Oracle agent monitor Cluster Ready Services (CRS)?
Revised: December 9, 2025There is no workload metric in the Databases dashboard (Global View) or workload column appears as "n/a".
Revised: December 8, 2025This article describes how to completely uninstall the Agent Manager and remove the init.d script used to run the Agent Manager as a daemon or the...
Revised: December 8, 2025This article explains how to monitor Oracle 12c and higher multitenant databases in Foglight, including both Container Databases (CDBs) and...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to get a product Walkthrough or Demo
Revised: December 8, 2025If you did not install the Agent Manager as a Windows® service using the installer, you can do so from the command line after installing the Agent...
Revised: December 8, 2025The DBSS Long Running Session alarm does not trigger as expected.
Revised: December 8, 2025Top SQL statements are not collected for a PostgreSQL agent even though the pg_stat_statements extension has been installed.
Revised: December 8, 2025What MySQL cartridge and agent rules are available out of the box?
Revised: December 8, 2025Oracle Usability OS connection availability alarms fire in Linux or Unix due to errors like the following in the agent log ERROR [AGENTNAME...
Revised: December 8, 2025Is it possible to monitor SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups using the listener address with the Foglight SQL Server agent?
Revised: December 8, 2025When monitoring with the PostgreSQL agent the following error is found in the database agent log. This prevents the host from being monitored...
Revised: December 8, 2025Cannot connect to PostgreSQL 15 and higher databases The PostgreSQL log file includes the message: Caused by: org.postgresql.util...
Revised: December 8, 2025DBSS - Usability OS Connection alarm repeatedly firing while Windows agent connects with no issues. These alarms may be consistent, where the OS...
Revised: December 8, 2025Blocking history is not seen in SQL PI for when changing the time ranges in the zonar. For example more rows are in “Last 4 hours” than in “Last...
Revised: December 8, 2025"DBSS - Unable To Check Backup Media" alarm fires because space cannot be queried In some cases messages like the following may appear ERROR...
Revised: December 8, 2025What are the issues known to exist at the time of the Foglight 8.1.0 release
Revised: December 8, 2025How should SQL Server agents be configured for an Availability Group and a Failover Cluster?
Revised: December 8, 2025What are agent properties for the Snowflake agent?
Revised: December 8, 2025The SQL Server Error Log on a monitored instance indicates that the database agent has killed sessions. Why does this occur?
Revised: December 8, 2025Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) fail to establish WinRM connection. Error message: ECHO DEBUG [WinRMWebServiceManagementConnection[20...
Revised: December 8, 2025After navigating to the Email Configuration page (Admin Console | Administration | Setup & Support | Email Configuration), and configuring the...
Revised: December 8, 2025Performance Investigator (PI) displays historical data based on a predefined time pyramid, which controls data resolution and how long it is kept.
Revised: December 8, 2025A history of the alarms previous fired can be very useful to investigate a technical issue. How can a history of the alarms or a specific type of...
Revised: December 8, 2025The Foglight MySQL agent requires certain minimum privileges for the MySQL Database User to be able to monitor a MySQL database.
Revised: December 8, 2025What are the requirements for Infrastructure Agent on Windows and Linux and required ports.
Revised: December 8, 2025Windows Remote Management (WinRM) can be configured quickly on a Windows Server using default settings through the "winrm quickconfig" command.
Revised: December 8, 2025This article answers common questions about managing Performance Investigator (SQL PI) data, including retention policy, repository growth, and...
Revised: December 8, 2025This article provides step-by-step instructions to configure a secure TLS/SSL connection between the MongoDB Agent and a MongoDB server. It...
Revised: December 8, 2025Which ports are needed to be opened on the firewall to allow monitoring of Foglight for Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase)?
Revised: December 8, 2025When monitoring hosts and database instances using a shared Active Directory (AD) service account across multiple agents, a password change in AD...
Revised: December 8, 2025Which Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server Availability/Usability alarms will fire against certain system status?
Revised: December 8, 2025A Foglight Management Server (FMS) has been running slow after the addition of MySQL and/or PostgreSQL agents. Performance seems proportional with...
Revised: December 8, 2025This article outlines the required configuration changes for enabling MySQL Performance Schema to support Performance Investigator (PI) in...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to add OS monitoring if the database agent has been installed already? How to enable Operating System (OS) collections on an existing...
Revised: December 5, 2025How to create a Database Alarm Blackout (Scheduled Blackout) using the Database dashboard.
Revised: December 5, 2025For Foglight Database Agents to collect operating system (OS) metrics from monitored Windows hosts, either Windows Remote Management (WinRM) or...
Revised: December 5, 2025Support bundles generated from the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) may be empty or fail to create. This is often caused by large SQL PI statistics...
Revised: December 5, 2025Processes tab in Infrastructure Host Monitor dashboard does not show Swap Size for individual process instances. The monitored host is...
Revised: December 4, 2025What is the overhead of the collections in a monitored SQL Server database instance? Is there a way to know the overhead of a specific collection...
Revised: December 4, 2025If we monitor the database in SSL mode, we must import the certificate of the database server into the keystore, What are the steps required to...
Revised: December 4, 2025Learn how the Hosts dashboard enables you to review a high-level summary of host performance in your environment.
Revised: December 4, 2025How can users access Alarms AI in Foglight?
Revised: December 4, 2025After setting the default credentials for the host, these newly created credentials can now be used by the Connection Details wizard to attempt...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to Setup Multiple Foglight SQL Server Agents for Monitoring Using Advance Mode
Revised: December 4, 2025How can multiple new Oracle database agents be added to Foglight for monitoring using a single installer wizard panel?
Revised: December 4, 2025How to add the PI extension to an Oracle agent
Revised: December 4, 2025How to install and add an Oracle ASM agent
Revised: December 4, 2025Foglight for PostgreSQL provides a graphic, intuitive method for creating and configuring agents, which can be used instead of Foglight’s default...
Revised: December 4, 2025How can a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) agent be created in Foglight
Revised: December 4, 2025Beginning with the SQL Server 5.9.4.20 and higher cartridge, a SQL Server agent can monitor an instance located on Amazon RDS.
Revised: December 4, 2025The Agent Status page can be used to create new agents and configure and manage existing agents.
Revised: December 4, 2025How to create SQL Server agents that connect to a PI repository.
Revised: December 4, 2025How to use the Global Search in Foglight 6.0 and higher
Revised: December 4, 2025Beginning with the 5.9.7.10 database cartridges, users will be introduced to a Quick Tutorial of the Global View Databases Dashboard using Foglight...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to add Performance Investigator (SQL PI) to a MySQL database agent
Revised: December 4, 2025How is the MySQLAgent installed in Foglight?
Revised: December 4, 2025How can a user view executions plans in SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) for SQL Server?
Revised: December 4, 2025What information is available on the Global View databases dashboard
Revised: December 4, 2025Introduction to SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) Add-on feature
Revised: December 4, 2025Non-administrator roles have been added to give users access to Administer database agent alarms. This role filters out all of the other...
Revised: December 4, 2025You can override the alarm rules for the selected agents by assigning an alarm template. You can use the template to enable or disable alarms for...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to add the SQL PI Extension to a SQL Server database agent
Revised: December 4, 2025How to download and install a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)
Revised: December 4, 2025How can a user defined collection be created for a database agent?
Revised: December 4, 2025How to grant the permissions for a DB2 group instead of a DB2 user for DB2 database monitoring.
Revised: December 4, 2025Example steps to generate an RSA key for a Linux host for a Foglight RSA credential.
Revised: December 3, 2025