What's new for Foglight Cloud

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...

What are the known issues for the SAP ASE (Sybase) cartridge?

There 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...

User does not see the statement details when clicking on the statement in the blocking history dashboard. The user sets the "Tops" drop down to...

Are there plans to convert the SQL Server cartridge to use credentials and lockboxes for the Database login credentials?

Known issues for the DB2 cartridge

Known issues with the Azure SQL cartridge

What are the known issues for the Oracle cartridge?

What are the known issues for SQL Server cartridge

Why would Foglight be using xp_cmdshell for monitoring the server? 

Is 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...

How to exclude SQL Server jobs from being monitored so that alarms are not received for these jobs?

In an Oracle RAC environment can the Oracle agent monitor Cluster Ready Services (CRS)?

There is no workload metric in the Databases dashboard (Global View) or workload column appears as "n/a".

This 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...

This article explains how to monitor Oracle 12c and higher multitenant databases in Foglight, including both Container Databases (CDBs) and...

How to blackout all of Foglight

How to get a product Walkthrough or Demo

If 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...

The DBSS Long Running Session alarm does not trigger as expected.

Top SQL statements are not collected for a PostgreSQL agent even though the pg_stat_statements extension has been installed.  

What MySQL cartridge and agent rules are available out of the box?

Oracle Usability OS connection availability alarms fire in Linux or Unix due to errors like the following in the agent log ERROR   [AGENTNAME...

Is it possible to monitor SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups using the listener address with the Foglight SQL Server agent?

When monitoring with the PostgreSQL agent the following error is found in the database agent log. This prevents the host from being monitored...

Cannot connect to PostgreSQL 15 and higher databases The PostgreSQL log file includes the message: Caused by: org.postgresql.util...

DBSS - Usability OS Connection alarm repeatedly firing while Windows agent connects with no issues. These alarms may be consistent, where the OS...

Blocking 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...

"DBSS - Unable To Check Backup Media" alarm fires because space cannot be queried In some cases messages like the following may appear ERROR...

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

How should SQL Server agents be configured for an Availability Group and a Failover Cluster?

What are agent properties for the Snowflake agent?

The SQL Server Error Log on a monitored instance indicates that the database agent has killed sessions. Why does this occur? 

Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) fail to establish WinRM connection. Error message: ECHO    DEBUG [WinRMWebServiceManagementConnection[20...

After navigating to the Email Configuration page (Admin Console | Administration | Setup & Support | Email Configuration), and configuring the...

Performance Investigator (PI) displays historical data based on a predefined time pyramid, which controls data resolution and how long it is kept.

A 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...

The Foglight MySQL agent requires certain minimum privileges for the MySQL Database User to be able to monitor a MySQL database.

What are the requirements for Infrastructure Agent on Windows and Linux and required ports.

Windows Remote Management (WinRM) can be configured quickly on a Windows Server using default settings through the "winrm quickconfig" command.

This article answers common questions about managing Performance Investigator (SQL PI) data, including retention policy, repository growth, and...

This article provides step-by-step instructions to configure a secure TLS/SSL connection between the MongoDB Agent and a MongoDB server. It...

Which ports are needed to be opened on the firewall to allow monitoring of Foglight for Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase)?

When monitoring hosts and database instances using a shared Active Directory (AD) service account across multiple agents, a password change in AD...

Which Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server Availability/Usability alarms will fire against certain system status?  

A Foglight Management Server (FMS) has been running slow after the addition of MySQL and/or PostgreSQL agents. Performance seems proportional with...

This article outlines the required configuration changes for enabling MySQL Performance Schema to support Performance Investigator (PI) in...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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. 

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.

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