In the world of Performance Monitoring, you are certainly going to hear about use-cases that require integration with third-party solutions such as those used for IT Service Management (ITSM). For our customers using Foglight for Cross Platform Databases this means being able to automatically have an Alert create an incident in the ITSM solution used for Incident Management.
SQL Server provides us with a number of high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Two of them are Always On Availability Groups and Always On Failover Cluster offerings. In order to leverage these options, they themselves need to be constantly evaluated. Therefore, monitoring the health and status of these Always On instances is critical, but how do we optimally configure them in Spotlight? My aim is to provide insight to the configuration steps based on the type of Always On instance.
IT Administrators need to keep an eye on Availability, Performance, and Storage of mission-critical environments. There are many things to consider as you develop a Monitoring and Diagnostics strategy.
The IoT, Internet of Things, has arrived. Sensors are everywhere, collecting more and more data about us and the world around us. Temperature, Humidity, Fluid Levels, Traffic counts, the status of devices and things like doors and elevators are being collected and distributed all around us. The question now is "What do we do with all that data?
