Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.4 - Infrastructure Utilities User Guide

View reference

Foglight displays monitoring data in views that group, format, and display data. The main types are described below.

Dashboards are top-level views that contain lower-level views. The dashboards supplied with Foglight, as well as those created by users, are accessible from the navigation panel.

Lower-level views in Foglight can be added to dashboards or can be accessed by drilling down from a dashboard. They receive and display data directly from the Management Server or from other views. Some views filter or select data that appears in other views in the same dashboard. Some are tree views with expandable nodes for selecting servers, applications, or data.

Foglight Web Monitor ships with several dashboards that allow you to monitor and configure your virtual environment. Each of these dashboards contains a number of views. This section describes these views in more detail. For more information about the available dashboards, see Exploring your collection of monitored Web sites, Investigating the performance of Web transactions and monitoring locations, and Exploring Web Monitor services.

This cartridge includes the following groups of views:

Web Monitor Performance Browser views

The Performance Browser contains the following views:

FAQts tab

The FAQts tab shows answers to common questions related to your transactions or locations.

Navigate to the Performance Browser, and open the FAQts tab.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

This view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer appears in the following form:

Top x <objects of category>…

where x is the number of objects of the category you provided in the Categories view.

Specify x by entering a number.

This view lists the categories for which questions can be answered for you by Foglight.

Click a category in the list to select it.

This view lists the questions, for the category selected in the Categories, that can be answered for you by Foglight.

Click a question in the list to select it.

If the list of questions is long and you want to narrow it down, search for a particular text string using the Search Questions box.

FAQts view

The FAQts view shows answers to common questions related to your transactions or locations. The collection of available questions depends on the tile selected in the Web Monitor Environment view. If you select the Transaction tile, this view displays the questions related to your transactions. If you select the Locations tile. the view displays the questions related to your locations.

In the Performance Browser, in the Quick View, the FAQts view appears in the bottom-left corner.