Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2018

Comparing The Compare - Quest Foglight and Toad

To compare is to measure, estimate, or make note of two or more “ things’ “ similarities and/or differences. It helps us better understand the items. A versus B. Sometimes it is done to learn which one is ‘better’. Other times, it is to determine those feature or properties that are different. That difference can be important when drawing conclusions. We are comparing things everyday sometimes without even being fully aware that we are doing so.

Quest Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 Controls Costs, Automates Capacity & Reduces Waste to Optimize Performance of Hybrid Cloud Environments

ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. – August 27, 2018 – Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced the availability of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.8.

Monitor MariaDB running in Amazon RDS with Foglight for Databases

I had a customer who was curious if Foglight could be used to monitor MariaDB running in Amazon RDS. This customer was already monitoring SQL Server and MongoDB with Foglight, and was eager to see if it could extend to this new MariaDB based application. While MariaDB "should" be functionally equivalent to MySQL, and given that Foglight has a cartridge for MySQL, I figured it would work, but wanted to step through it myself to make sure there were no gotcha's.