Foglight For Databases 7.1.5 ReleaseNotes

Foglight for Databases^® 7.1.5

Release Notes

July 2024

Contents

Contents

Welcome to Foglight

What's New

Resolved issues and enhancements

Known issues

Third party known issues

Upgrade and compatibility

System requirements

Product licensing

Getting started with Foglight

About Us

Welcome to Foglight

Welcome to Foglight

Quest's Foglight^® solution simplifies application performance monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications, the user experience, and the supporting infrastructure.

Unlike other solutions, Foglight uses a single code base, and has a model-driven design that couples fast deployment and accelerated time-to-value. It offers the modular flexibility required to deliver a range of capabilities and sophistication to meet the needs of any organization—from those still focused on technology-centric monitoring to those that have completed the transition to application-centric or transactional monitoring.

Foglight performs equally well in physical, virtual, and mixed infrastructure environments, providing visibility into issues affecting the application and end-user experience. Intuitive workflows help you quickly move from the symptom to the root cause in the application, database, infrastructure, or network to resolve issues, reducing mean time to resolution. Predefined and drag-and-drop dashboards provide insight that is tailored to each stakeholder. By offering comprehensive visibility into your monitored environment, Foglight helps ensure that cross-functional teams collaborate on and prioritize issues that matter most to the business.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 7.1.0 release of Foglight for Databases. Review all sections before starting the installation.

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New in this release

New in this release

Version 7.1.5 of Foglight contains updates to version 7.1 as described in the Resolved issues and enhancements section.

In addition, version 7.1.5 of Foglight contains the following:

Security Enhancements

• Updated Java JRE used by Foglight to version 17.0.11

• Updated third-party libraries

• Addressing issues with supporting HTTPS traffic when the FMS is running in FIPS mode

Foglight Agent Manager Enhancements

• Update the SSH library used by agents to provide support for newer encryption and signature algorithms.

User Experience Enhancements

• Easy link to Query Insight dashboard - Query Insight dashboard is now accessible directly from the Database Global view dashboard.

• Fixed date format inconsistency in timeframe selector

• Timeframe reset when zoom-in on a wcf chart and set

Feature Enhancements

• Add the ability to remove literals from queries collected and supported for the following database cartridges: SQL Server, Oracle, Azure DB, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP Hana, Snowflake, Redis, Redshift, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Add the ability to set PI data storage period to lower then 1 year (minimum 90 days)
• Audit kill sessions - The audit record will be created when a user terminates a database session using the Sessions dashboard on SQL Server and Oracle or in the Current Agent dashboard on DB2.
• Enhance historic blocking analysis in SQL Server PI. Add the ability to view more detailed information about locked resources.
• Configure Long running session alarms in both Oracle and SQL Server

Version 7.1 of Foglight contains the following new features and updates:

Security Enhancements

• Updated third-party libraries

• Add the ability to remove literals from queries collected. Supported for selected database cartridges. check relevant release notes.

Foglight Agent Manager Enhancements

• FglAM HA partitions will now automatically fail back to the highest priority FglAM

User Experience Enhancements

• Revised the header across all foglight dashboards to include new breadcrumbs, timeframe selector, and reports

• Open source and No-SQL database menus are now conveniently located under the “Databases” menu on the left for easy navigation

• Change the location of the “Pin” button for the left navigation bar

• Add support for Snowflake and SAP HANA

• Improve Query Insight layout to allow change of width between the two parts of the screen

SQL Server Enhancements

• Add the ability to remove literals from queries collected.

• Add monitoring for os_workers.

• Add monitoring for read and write file latency.

• Remove the use of RMI in SQL Server cartridge.

Following is the list of database cartridges that are included in this release:

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