Earlier today Brian Bouchard commented on my dashboard sharing post to ask what happens to other peoples dashboards if their accounts are removed from Foglight. Since I didn’t know the answer I’ve run a couple of tests and thought I’d share my conclusions. In order to test this I created a test user, 2 dashboards [...]
As I mentioned in the annual return to fitness, a number of my friends and I take part in the Hellrunner event every year. Hellrunner is a roughly 11 mile trail race that take you through bogs, rivers, hills and sand dunes, and is generally an awful way to spend an otherwise pleasant weekend. The [...]
Quick update on my alarms analysis cartridge for Foglight. I’ve released version 2.0 on the Foglight Community page. New features in this version: Breakdown of alerts per service Drilldown into alerts not included in services (useful to check you’ve captured all your monitoring in services) Quick counts for each severity (with a pie chart) Drilldowns [...]
Recently a customer asked for a specific section of an existing Foglight dashboard to be available as a drag and drop view in their custom dashboards. In this case they simply wanted to see the up/down arrow from the SLA dashboard to be available to them when they dragged a service onto the canvas. Luckily, [...]
Welcome back to my series on using Foglight services to put your monitored objects into meaningful groups. These may be applications, teams, or production vs. development, and in the rest of this series we will investigate what we can do with these services once we’ve created them. In this exciting episode, we’re going to use [...]
Welcome back to my series on using Foglight services to put your monitored objects into meaningful groups. These may be applications, teams, or production vs. development, and in the rest of this series we will investigate what we can do with these services once we’ve created them. In this exciting episode, we’re going to use [...]
One of the features that Quest’s Foglight is built upon is services. If you have ever seen one of our product demonstrations (and if not, you can visit the new view website to see one) you will have heard that one of our main concepts is grouping together all the elements of an application (the [...]
One of the concepts you will find repeated throughout Foglight is “scope”. You will find mention of scope when scripting, in rule definitions, rule conditions, even derived metrics. But what is scope?
Welcome to part 2 of my series on Foglight customisation. In this series we’re going to learn how to create our own models, dashboards, functions and lots of other bits and pieces. The example project we’re using to do this is a Todo list application. The usefulness of a Todo list in Foglight is left [...]
The second post in the 2 minute tips series focuses on sharing your drag and drop dashboards. For the rest of the 2 minute tips series, visit the 2 minute tips page. One of the best features about Quest Foglight is the ability to quickly create your own dashboards using any of the data available [...]
