What's new for Foglight

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in PingFederate

Foglight and SAML 2.0 Integration in Azure AD.

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

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting 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.

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

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

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting 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 Oracle Database.

This guide provides instructions for installing, configuring, and starting 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 Embedded PostgreSQL Database.

Amazon DocumentDB is a MongoDB-compatible document store database. It is fully managed by Amazon in the AWS cloud. It offers speed and scalability...

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

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

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

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

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

Foglight for PagerDuty integration

Foglight Cartridge for Web Monitor 8.1.0 allows you to monitor Web transactions that occur between your Web sites and the end users, by tracking...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Foglight Cartridge for MySQL PI

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

MongoDB Atlas is a cloud platform-as-a-service operated by MongoDB, Inc. the producer of the open source database of the same name. Atlas is a...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

How to add OS monitoring if the database agent has been installed already? How to enable Operating System (OS) collections on an existing...

Is it possible to change the severity of these alarms, for example from Fatal to Critical?

How to create a Database Alarm Blackout (Scheduled Blackout) using the Database dashboard.

How to create custom rules in Foglight?

For Foglight Database Agents to collect operating system (OS) metrics from monitored Windows hosts, either Windows Remote Management (WinRM) or...

How to schedule a PSO Healthcheck service?

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

The self-signed TLS certificate used by the FMS for the Tomcat webserver is due to expire very soon on the 13th March 2025. After the certificate...

After upgrading to a recent SQL Server cartridge the drive where the Foglight Agent Manager is located on the PI repository server is running out...

Support bundles generated from the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) may be empty or fail to create. This is often caused by large SQL PI statistics...

Some Foglight users are locked and have their passwords expired. According to the documentation a user should be automatically unlocked after 15...

The Infrastructure dashboard has a Wizard that allows to easily Add Custom Rules . This is briefly documented on the Foglight for Infrastructure...

Is it possible to install the fglcmd utility outside the Foglight server?

How to exclude Ciphers from Foglight the Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager?

The user has two Production Child FMS and 1 FMS Federator. The user has uninstalled several SQL server and Oracle agents from the two children FMS...

If an agent has a tag, can that tag be used in the scope query? Using a scope query like this does not work: Host where monitoringAgent.tags...

Foglight Management Server Proxy Configuration fails to log in with NTLM Credentials The following error is reported in the management server...

Two Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) were added to a FglAM HA cluster. One of the FglAMs had WindowsAgents that were deployed to it before the FglAM...

Where is the Data Management dashboard in the Foglight Management Server?

Processes  tab in  Infrastructure Host Monitor  dashboard does not show Swap Size for individual process instances. The monitored host is...

The rule Number of Processes fired with an Abnormal number of processes alarm message. Does this mean the Host is struggling or is under heavy...

When will the FMS (Foglight Management Server) external repository be supported on Oracle 23c?

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

After recently adding new groups to Active Directory, the new groups are not available to be enabled for visibility.

Monitored host performance metrics in Child FMS doesn't match with performance metrics in Federator FMS . Host object shows multiple aliases...

The Foglight Management Server (FMS) server is very slow and is taking up to 1.5 hours to start.

How to set Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to use https to communicate with Foglight Management Server (FMS)? How to set FglAM to use SSL...

After experiencing local UDP problems, how can one force Foglight to use TCP in High Availability (HA) mode?

After applying blackout to an agent via script using the AgentBlackoutService interface with the applyAgentBlackout(String agentId, String...

A monitored host requires a 2-step / factor verification logon system which accepts a password for the first part and a token based pin for the...

How to modify e-mails subject and messages adding rule severity variables.

How are credentials secured in Foglight (Management Server Login, Backend Database and Agent credentials) and what encryption is used for passwords?

After starting the Agent Manager process (fglam) via command line, the Agent Manager appears as connected in the Foglight console. Agents start...

When starting a Foglight Management Server (FMS) in a High Availability (HA) cluster the embedded Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) for that FMS does...

VMwarePerformance agent did not fire any alarm notifying VMware services were down on vCenter server

Infrastructure Agents not gathering metrics properly:  UnixAgent does not collect metrics from Linux or Oracle Solaris host UnixAgentPlus...

How does one configure a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) concentrator so only one system requires a communication port opened in a firewall?

Does VMware Performance agent support Foglight Agent Manager High Availability (FglAM HA) mode?

How to move an embedded PostgreSQL to an external PostgreSQL database

The Windows OS Process Agent reads the "Anzeigenamen" (Displayname). However, due to Operating System (OS) language differences, the display names...

Is there Documentation/Tutorial Guide(s) which explains how to design/create custom Dashboards, Views and Reports in Foglight?

The Sybase SAP ASE agent is installed but data cannot be seen in the panels and the logs indicate that the collections are failing.

What are the types of external repositories currently certified or supported by Foglight Management Server?

Is it possible to leave the recipient email address blank/null for alarm email notifications? It is a requirement to leave the email recipient...

Customer would like query the data in Foglight DB through an external application either via ODBC or any other possible means to build report on...

Does the LogMonitor agent use RegEx industry standard?  How to build matching strings?  How to build a match string, that does not contain...

Unable to get session information from Database dashboard.  When navigating to Database | Overview | Activity and see following error: An error...

What 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...

Where to find information about troubleshooting FMS Performance issues

Running a Management Server Performance Summary Report,  "User Session Count" always shows as zero although there are users logged in during the...

This article outlines recommended anti-virus exclusion settings to prevent performance issues or interference with the Foglight Management Server...

If 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...

Learn how the Hosts dashboard enables you to review a high-level summary of host performance in your environment.

How can users access Alarms AI in Foglight?

After setting the default credentials for the host, these newly created credentials can now be used by the Connection Details wizard to attempt...

How to Setup Multiple Foglight SQL Server Agents for Monitoring Using Advance Mode

How can multiple new Oracle database agents be added to Foglight for monitoring using a single installer wizard panel?

How to add the PI extension to an Oracle agent

How to install and add an Oracle ASM agent

Foglight for PostgreSQL provides a graphic, intuitive method for creating and configuring agents, which can be used instead of Foglight’s default...

How to Upgrade Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)

How to install a Foglight license from the Foglight Management Server console?

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

How can a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) agent be created in Foglight

How can to install a DB2 agent to monitor a PureScale environment

Installing the MySQL license and cartridge

Beginning with the SQL Server 5.9.4.20 and higher cartridge, a SQL Server agent can monitor an instance located on Amazon RDS.

The Agent Status page can be used to create new agents and configure and manage existing agents. 

This article explains how to remove a host from the Foglight Management Server (FMS) when it has been decommissioned or no longer requires...

How to create SQL Server agents that connect to a  PI repository.

How to use the Global Search in Foglight 6.0 and higher

Beginning with the 5.9.7.10 database cartridges, users will be introduced to a Quick Tutorial of the Global View Databases Dashboard using Foglight...

How to add Performance Investigator (SQL PI) to a MySQL database agent

How is the MySQLAgent installed in Foglight?

How can a user view executions plans in SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) for SQL Server?

What information is available on the Global View databases dashboard 

Introduction to SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) Add-on feature 

Non-administrator roles have been added to give users access to Administer database agent alarms. This role filters out all of the other...

You 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...

How to add the SQL PI Extension to a SQL Server database agent

How to download and install a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)

How can a user defined collection be created for a database agent?

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

Installing a license and the Amazon Redshift cartridge into the Foglight Management Server

What are the steps necessary to install a new SAP HANA license and cartridge?

What are the steps to install a cartridge in Foglight by Adding it to a Cartridge Inventory of an Existing Foglight Management Server?

How does the SQL Server Error Log filter function?

Installing the MongoDB cartridge

Steps to create an Amazon Redshift agent

Example steps to generate an RSA key for a Linux host for a Foglight RSA credential.

Where can instructional material which explains usage of the Rest API be found?

How to determine the version of Tomcat in use by Foglight?

What versions of OpenJDK and JDK are used with the Foglight Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager?

How to monitor user specific process using the Infrastructure Cartridge (IC)?

Installing the Cassandra cartridge for Foglight.

Jessica welcomes attendees to the Quest Foglight Skills 101 webcast, introducing expert Nashad as the session leader. The agenda includes topics...

Janice from Quest is presenting on optimizing SQL Server performance using Quest Foglight. With extensive experience as a DBA, she will cover new...

In the second episode of the Foglight 101 series, Clay provides a hands-on learning experience on customizing and extending Foglight topology to...