We haven't added voice command to Foglight yet, but we can still get Foglight to play some tunes. I setup a small monitoring environment with a Foglight Management Server in a public cloud. I put a local Foglight Agent Manager on my laptop to talk to it, and deployed the Windows agent to monitor it. I immediately got Memory Utilization alarms.

Foglight has a robust rules engine for alerting and notification. It's often the case that you can get to the same end zone in Foglight by many different plays. Using the Service Builder is an easy way to group "things" together. "Things" can be higher level objects like database instances or hosts, or very detailed objects like a set of disks or jobs that match a pattern.

Creating your own dashboard in Foglight is as easy as putting up the Festivus pole. In this post, a service containing all MySQL instances was created. A great feature of Foglight is the ability to create your own custom dashboards and reports. Expand the right-hand panel, and select Create dashboard. I normally start with "Use All Data."

Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by monitoring that space and alerting on the threshold well in advance of potential space issues.