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This guide provides the pre-requisites for optimal deployment. It refers to monitoring the leading RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 for LUW...

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.9.7.10 release of Foglight...

This guide lists the third-party components incorporated by Foglight for Databases.

Foglight for SAP ASE includes dashboards which aid in the monitoring, analysis, and investigation of SAP ASE performance.

This guide provides the pre-requisites for optimal deployment. It refers to monitoring the leading RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 for LUW...

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and other important information about 5.9.7.10 release of Foglight for SQL...

This guide lists the third-party components incorporated by Foglight for Databases.

This guide provides configuration instructions, conceptual information and instructions on how to use the Foglight for SQL Server cartridge.

This guide provides the pre-requisites for optimal deployment. It refers to monitoring the leading RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 for LUW...

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and other important information about the 5.9.7.10 release of Foglight for...

This guide lists the third-party components incorporated by Foglight for Databases.

This guide provides the pre-requisites for optimal deployment. It refers to monitoring the leading RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 for LUW...

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and other important information about 5.9.7.10 release of Foglight for...

This guide covers the entire monitoring process, starting with the discovery of the database instances and the connection with these instances, and...

This guide lists the third-party components incorporated by Foglight for Databases.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.9.7.10 release of Foglight...

This guide provides the pre-requisites for optimal deployment. It refers to monitoring the leading RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 for LUW...

This User Guide is intended for DB2 database administrators and provides information on administering and monitoring DB2 databases.

This guide lists the third-party components incorporated by Foglight for Databases.

This guide provides the minimal hardware settings required for proper functioning of the Foglight Management Server, Foglight for DB2 LUW operation...

This is a quick guide for the installation and use of Foglight for DB2 LUW, from the planning stage up to the actual monitoring of database...

Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server allows DBAs to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause, perform...

Foglight for Cassandra quickly and easily detects, diagnoses and resolves performance issues — wherever, whenever and however they occur. Foglight...

Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server allows DBAs to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause, perform...

Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server allows DBAs to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause, perform...

Foglight Cartridge for SAP ASE enables Foglight to monitor SAP ASE database systems. The cartridge monitors database resource utilization for...

Foglight Cartridge for Oracle allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...

Foglight Cartridge for DB2 LUW utilizes a lightweight agent that provides real-time monitoring of all layers of an enterprise application (systems...

Azure SQL Database is a managed cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and enables customers to migrate...

Database agents cannot be added to a FMS and support bundle takes a long time (24 hours) to generate.

If the Foglight Agent Managers that run on Windows crash, the restart issued by watchdog will fail and generate a "failed-startup_xxx.log" log file...

An infrastructure (IC) agent is enabled and running but no metrics are displayed for the agent in the hosts, infrastructure, or databases...

The Root Cause Analyzer report causes the FMS stop responding and requires it to be restarted. When there are a large number of database...

How can the Tomcat version in Foglight be upgraded from 7.0.94?

Installing a new DB2 agent on Windows does not find the DB2 home path.  The following error is found in the DB2 installer log Failed to execute...

For a single SQL Server instance with nearly 2000 databases the "SQL Server | Overview | Databases" dashboard can take more than 2 minutes to load...

Is the SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) extension available for Azure SQL database agents?

On several dash boards the xp_cmdshell statement is appears without any additional information detailing what is running.

The host name does not display correctly in the Databases Dashboard and Agent Overview page after switching over for a RAC One node.  

What steps are necessary to add the SQL PI extension to Azure SQL database agents.

After a Foglight license expired and a new license was added the Globalview databases dashboard displays only the message  "There is no data to...

Version 5.9.7.20 of Foglight for SAP ASE contains the following new features and updates: Aligned Global View cartridge to Foglight for...

Foglight for Azure SQL Database monitors the Azure SQL Database activity by connecting to and querying the database. Version 5.9.7.20 of Foglight...

Version 5.9.7.20 contains the following new features and updates: Added an option to skip permission check The following is a list of issues...

Version 5.9.7.20 contains the following new features and updates: Supported large batch text size in PI. Issue ID Resolved Issue...

Version 5.9.7.20 contains the following new features and updates: Support for large batch text size in PI The following is a list of issues...

What are the steps to create a new Azure SQL database monitoring agent using the built-in database installer wizard from the databases dashboard?

How to you access Change Tracking in SQL Performance Investigator? What is Change Tracking used for in SQL PI?

The Database Overview dashboard is showing “No Full Backup” which is not correct: Under "Storage | Database Backup" the backups metrics...

Is it possible to exclude credential alarms from being forwarded to PagerDuty?

When trying to monitor SSAS with a non-default port, the install fails because the OS connection uses an incorrect hostname (hostname:port). An...

Enhancement Request to support customized values in Foglight SNMP Trap Actions

Following the instructions for importing certificates for database agents would require hundreds of certificates to be created and imported. Is...

A new Oracle agent is created in the FMS which monitors the instance using a virtual hostname on the database dashboard. The hostname displays the...

Data migration from Infobright PI repository to SQL Server is not displayed. No SQL statements from the migrated data can be seen in SQL PI.

There are numerous DB2 rules that include "For internal use" and "DUMMY RULE". What are these used for?

Errors similar to the following are found in the Oracle Alert log every time the Foglight agent tries to connect to the monitored database: NI...

How to grant the permissions for a DB2 group instead of a DB2 user for DB2 database monitoring.

Looking at  SQL Statements within PI dashboards shows "SQL text is out of the collected batch configured size...." for some statements. SQL...

SQL Server agent collects only 200 objects. If more objects exists, they will not be collected / monitored. For example the "I/O by File" table...

Disk used size, log sizes, filegroup, and filestream information is missing for some databases in a SQL Server instance. An Error message "Row...

Does Foglight support MS SQL Server Always ON Cluster, with Availability Group and multiSubnet failover, as Database repository?

Foglight repository database size is huge. This is mainly because of the below registry tables, registry_registry_value registry_registry...

Not able to get RMI connections working despite port 3235 being open between the Foglight Management Server (FMS) and the Agent Managers (FglAM...

Adding the SQL PI extension or validating connectivity for a Disaster Recovery instance to Oracle monitoring fails due to the following error...

In the Foglight for Database v5.9.7.10 cartridge, the dashboard "Manage SQL PI Repositories" sometimes takes long to load, and FMS console might...

The alarm is still triggered after adding exceptions for the database using the Rule Exceptions configuration into the rule "DBSS - Hours Since...

It takes over 30 seconds for current blocking panel to sometimes appear in SQL Server agent

SQL Server Workload Summary report does not show any metrics for wait events. All percentage values show 0%. Looking at the PI dashboard, wait...

Foglight Oracle Database Monitoring causes high CPU utilization on the monitored Database Host

When monitoring Oracle RAC one node, check the switchover creates a new IC agent. Checking again the switchover, the Oracle cartridge cart...

The DB agent log prints password information, although the value has been encrypted, and the name has been replaced as Pa$$word

The extended events deadlock query can be a high consuming query on the SQL Server host that runs frequency and is listed in the top consuming list...

SQL Server Dashboard I/O by File panel does not display period value. Users will see zeros for most of the rows.

What are the steps to create a new Azure database monitoring agent using the built-in database installer wizard from the databases dashboard with...

Each time when clicking on "Analyze Plan" in the Performance Investigator (PI) dashboard or when the PI plan collection is running, the monitored...

It has been observed that after having over 100 DB2 agents in an Agent Manager in some cases while adding a new DB2 agent you might get Call back...

Is Performance Investigator (PI)  availabe for Postgres, MySQL and/or Azure SQL Server databases?

The DB2 cartridge and agents have Log Activity and Log Messages collections. What are the differences between these?

When the "Activate" button is unchecked for a particular rules condition and "Save" is clicked the following error is received: "Could not save...

When Foglight is used to monitor database servers with different time zone: How is timestamp stored in Foglight database repository? (UTC time...

After the Unix agent has been deleted, it cannot be recreated. The following error appears in the Foglight Agent Manager FGLAM log files...

When changing the "Distinguished name..." field of the LDAP configuration dashboard (Administration | User & Security Management | Configure...

During the initial setup of a new DB2 agent the setup fails if DB2 grants are provisioned to a user group, they are successful only when granted at...

Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) can't start automatically with the new Linux system restart on below mentioned platforms. CentOS Linux 8.0 8.1...

How to create a report from command line

Some scope queries cause the Rule editor to take too long to load. How can these scope queries be optimized?

Where can I find step by step guides for upgrading my Foglight?

After applying a  Retention Policy to purge data aged older than 4 months on the Foglight Management Server (FMS), the size of the database does...

Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) and Foglight Evolve and Foglight (Forge) versions Mapping

When using the SQL PI dashboard, the user selects a SQL Statement and clicks Analyze Plan . Once in the Analyze Plan window, the user chooses to...

Foglight 5.9.7 installer throws below JRE error while running on Redhat 7.8. "No Java virtual machine (JVM) could be found from your PATH...

WinRM via HTTPS connection is failing with error: "KrbException: Server not found in Kerberos database"

DWRSESSIONID cookie is not protected by secure when Foglight Management Server (FMS) is set to only accept HTTPS.

When user clicks the SQL PI they see the error: Failed to retrieve data from SQL PI repository. If the issue persists, please contact Quest...

Is there a rule to monitor free Inodes?

When attempting to add a SQL PI extension to a SQL Server PI repository database Active Directory (AD) Windows authentication, a message stating...

Large number of HostProcess and OperatingSystem topology object changes caused by Oracle process

How does the DBSS - Work Thread rule and alarm work?