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Quest Support Product Release Notification - Foglight 7.3.0

We are excited to announce a new release of  Foglight 7.3.0 . Look what's new: Performance Investigator for PostgreSQL  with a new...

Type: Product Revised: July 21, 2025
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Patches

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Documentation

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Foglight 8.0.0 Federation Field Guide

This guide provides an overview of the Foglight federation feature and provides guidelines for configuring the Federation Master and Federated...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Upgrade Guide

This guide provides instructions on how to upgrade to the latest version of the Foglight Management Server and the Foglight Agent Manager. This...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on a UNIX System with an External MySQL Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on a UNIX System with an External MySQL Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on a UNIX System with an Embedded PostgreSQL Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on a UNIX System with an Embedded PostgreSQL Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on Windows with an External Microsoft SQL Server Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on Windows with an External Microsoft SQL Server Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on Windows with an External PostgreSQL Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on Windows with an External Microsoft SQL Server Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on Windows with an External Oracle Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on Windows with an External Oracle Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on Windows with an External MySQL Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on Windows with an External MySQL Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on Windows with an Embedded PostgreSQL Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on Windows with an Embedded PostgreSQL Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on a UNIX System with an External PostgreSQL Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on a UNIX System with an External PostgreSQL Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Installing Foglight on a UNIX System with an External Oracle Database

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting Foglight on a UNIX System with an External Oracle Database.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for Databases Shared 8.0.0 Deployment Guide

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Release Notes

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in ADFS

Guide on how to completely integrate SAML SSO with the Foglight Management Server on the ADFS server.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in PingFederate

Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in PingFederate

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in Azure AD

Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in Azure AD.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Web Component Guide

This guide provides configuration instructions, conceptual information and instructions on how to use the browser interface. It is intended for any...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Dashboard Support Guide

This guide describes the dashboards accessible from the Tools and Dashboard Support page and provides hands-on instructions on how to use them when...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Security and Compliance Guide

This guide describes Foglight security features. It includes information about Foglight access control, data protection, and secure network...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Web Component Tutorial

This guide is intended for any user who wants to build custom views for use in the browser interface.

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Performance Tuning Field Guide

The guide provides information about the various elements that can have an effect on overall performance and describes the applicable performance...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 High Availability Field Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to configure your Foglight environment to use High Availability (HA) Mode. Use it to enable...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight 8.0.0 Creating Actions Field Guide

This guide provides conceptual information about Foglight actions, along with configuration and instructions that will help you create custom...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for Databases Shared 7.3.0 Deployment Guide

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

Created: July 9, 2025
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Software Releases

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Foglight Management Server 8.0.0 Server Installation - Windows x86_64

A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Management Server 8.0.0 Server Installation - Linux x86_64

A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for Databases Cross-Platform 8.0.0 Installation - Linux x86_64

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Agent Manager 8.0.0 Windows-x86_64

Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Agent Manager 8.0.0 Linux x86_64

Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Agent Manager 8.0.0 All

Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Redis 8.0.0

Foglight for Redis© is designed to provide enterprises with a powerful tool that can stand alone or act as part of broader cross-platform database...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for DB2 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Oracle 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for Databases Cross-Platform 8.0.0 Installation - Windows x86_64

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for Databases Cross-Platform 8.0.0 Installation - Linux x86_64

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Management Server 8.0.0 Server Installation - Windows x86_64

A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Management Server 8.0.0 Server Installation - Linux x86_64

A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for MongoDB 8.0.0

Foglight for MongoDB rapidly detects, diagnoses and resolves performance issues — wherever, whenever and however they occur. Foglight for MongoDB...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Snowflake 8.0.0

Foglight for Snowflake brings comprehensive, non-siloed,enterprise-class monitoring to the industry's most innovative cloud data management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for SAP HANA 8.0.0

SAP HANA is an in-memory, relational database management system. It operates primarily as a columnoriented store, but row-oriented tables are also...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for SAP ASE 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Redis 8.0.0

Foglight for Redis© is designed to provide enterprises with a powerful tool that can stand alone or act as part of broader cross-platform database...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for PostgreSQL PI 8.0.0

PostgreSQL PI in Foglight serves the primary function of providing comprehensive monitoring and performance analysis capabilities for PostgreSQL...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for PostgreSQL 8.0.0

Foglight for PostgreSQL rapidly detects, diagnoses and resolves performance issues — wherever, whenever and however they occur. Intuitive web-based...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Oracle 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for MySQL PI 8.0.0 (needs MySQL 7.1.0 download or higher)

Foglight Cartridge for MySQL PI

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for MySQL 8.0.0

Foglight for MySQL ensures optimal database performance by delivering comprehensive database, storage and virtualization monitoring, plus advanced...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for DB2 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Cassandra 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Azure SQL DB 8.0.0

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

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for AWS Hosts 8.0.0

Foglight for AWS Hosts brings comprehensive, non-siloed, enterprise-class monitoring to the industry's leading cloud computing platform.Used...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Amazon RedShift 8.0.0

Amazon Redshift is a fully-managed, highly-scalable database service on the AWS cloud. It can host data in a Redshift cluster and provide an...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Agent Manager 8.0.0 All

Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for PagerDuty integration

Foglight for PagerDuty integration

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Cartridge for Web Monitor 8.0.0

Foglight Cartridge for Web Monitor 8.0.0 allows you to monitor Web transactions that occur between your Web sites and the end users, by tracking...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Agent Manager 8.0.0 Windows-x86_64

Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight Agent Manager 8.0.0 Linux x86_64

Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management...

Created: July 30, 2025
Foglight for Databases Cross-Platform 8.0.0 Installation - Windows x86_64

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

Created: July 22, 2025
Foglight for Databases Cross-Platform 8.0.0 Installation - Linux x86_64

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

Created: July 22, 2025
Foglight Management Server 8.0.0 Server Installation - Windows x86_64

A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...

Created: July 22, 2025
Foglight Management Server 8.0.0 Server Installation - Linux x86_64

A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...

Created: July 22, 2025
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Foglight Cartridge for MongoDB 7.3.1.50

Foglight for MongoDB rapidly detects, diagnoses and resolves performance issues — wherever, whenever and however they occur. Foglight for MongoDB...

Revised: July 9, 2025
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Knowledge Base Articles

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4380077 - Foglight Management Server Known Issues

What are the issues known to exist at the time of the Foglight 8.1.0 release

Created: July 22, 2025
4379882 - MFA connection support in SQL Server and Azure SQL agents

Starting with version  7.3.1.10 , the Azure SQL and SQL Server cartridges support Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for connections to Azure SQL...

Created: July 2, 2025
4379999 - Discrepancy Between DB2 agent OS Memory Utilization and Host Agent Memory Utilization on AIX

On AIX systems, users may notice a significant difference between the memory utilization reported by the OS (using commands like `svmon`) in the...

Created: July 14, 2025
4380191 - Sybase Database Error Log Monitoring with Remote MDA Agents in Foglight

This article explains whether Foglight can monitor the Sybase Database Error Log (Database_Error_Log_Details) using a remote MDA agent, clarifying...

Created: July 30, 2025
4380110 - Foglight SQL Server Error Log OS Collector Raises Duplicate Alarms for Single Events

When monitoring SQL Server with Foglight, users may observe multiple alarms for a single logical error event. This typically occurs when SQL...

Created: July 24, 2025
4379910 - SQL PI Displays Different Metric Values for Different Users Due to Time Zone Settings

Users accessing SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) on the same database Agent are reporting discrepancies in metric values and timestamps...

Created: July 7, 2025
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4230073 - SQL Server Error log alarms do not fire

The SQL Server error log alarm does not fire for new records added to the SQL Server error log which match the defined criteria.

Revised: July 29, 2025
4311398 - Oracle Alert Log alarms do not fire

If the severity level of the Alert Log filter created in Global Administration is Critical or Fatal then a corresponding Critical or Fatal Alarm...

Revised: July 29, 2025
4293668 - FglAMs are connected to the FMS but not listed in Agent Manager dashboard

FglAMs are connected to the FMS but not listed in Agent Manager dashboard. This manifests as a UI issue only. Agents collect successfully. FMS...

Revised: July 28, 2025
4368617 - High churn and slow performance in FMS from MongoDB agents

 Slow performance and high topology churn in Foglight Management Server (FMS) monitoring mongodb agents.

Revised: July 25, 2025
4377831 - When deleting a User Define Collection the data is still shown in the UDC dashboard

When deleting a User Define Collection the data should not be shown in the UDC dashboard. When a user deletes a UDC the data that has been...

Revised: July 22, 2025
4341759 - Host agent is created with short name instead of FQDN and the OS validation fails.

Host agent is created with short name instead of FQDN and the OS validation fails.

Revised: July 22, 2025
4370560 - Physical hostname of EC2 appears when adding Oracle agent

When adding an Oracle EC2 into monitoring (Database and OS agents) by default the host name comes in as the physical hostname of the EC2 (ip-100-XX...

Revised: July 22, 2025
4344547 - Support HTTPS WinRM connections that require channel binding

When the winrm/config/service/auth/cbtHardeningLevel is set to "Strict" (especially for the environments that apply strict secure policy), only...

Revised: July 22, 2025
4380034 - Understanding and Resolving the "DBO - Parallel Serialized" Alarm in Foglight

The DBO - Parallel Serialized alarm is triggered when the number of  parallel queries downgraded to serial execution exceeds a defined...

Revised: July 18, 2025
4285190 - Is there an option in Foglight to disable a user account

Is there an option in Foglight to disable a user account

Revised: July 16, 2025
4265539 - How to get notified when an alarm is automatically cleared by Foglight?

How to get notified when an alarm is automatically cleared by Foglight?

Revised: July 14, 2025
4311921 - Can the Foglight DB2 Cartridge monitor a HADR Environment?

Can the Foglight DB2 Cartridge monitor a HADR (High Availability Disaster Recovery) Environment?

Revised: July 11, 2025
4231559 - What is the difference of the Oracle Long Lock Running rules: "DBO - SPI Long Lock Running" and "DBO - Long Lock Running" ?

What is the difference of the Oracle Long Lock Running rules: "DBO - SPI Long Lock Running"  and "DBO - Long Lock Running"?

Revised: July 11, 2025
4308825 - Changing the Blocking History Collection parameters

How can the Blocking History Collection parameters be changed so that the blocks taking less than specified time will appear in the dashboard.

Revised: July 11, 2025
4269265 - Batch CLI script for creating MySQL agents

Batch CLI script for creating PostgreSQL agents

Revised: July 8, 2025
4288307 - SQL Server agent installer fails: "Login failed for user 'Domain\servername$'"

The user to connect to database and operating system is an AD account, which is able to access both. During installation the credentials are set...

Revised: July 3, 2025
4375478 - Long Running Session Alarms does not fire when enabled via Alarms Template

Long Running Session Alarms does not fire when enabled via Alarms Template

Revised: July 2, 2025
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Product Life Cycle

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Product Life Cycle -Foglight

Revised: July 30, 2025
Product Life Cycle -Foglight

Revised: July 22, 2025