Foglight - Quest Software

Foglight provides deep insight into the service relationship that exists among end users, business services, IT resources, and critical infrastructure components such as applications and databases. 

Foglight offers:

• Multiple data collection methodologies, as well as intuitive and flexible dashboards.
• IT with models and views of the managed environment tailored to the needs of key stakeholders.
• Proactive monitoring and real-time diagnostics.
• Identification and resolution of incidents and problems in business-critical applications before end users are effected.
• Correlation of application performance from the end user, through the application and into the database for a complete picture of application performance.
• An understanding of what components support key applications and business services for quicker MTTR Guaranteed service levels for key applications and services.

Foglight Management Capabilities include:

• Service Level Management, which involves integration of disparate IT technology components into a service representation that is the sum of the whole.
• End User Management, in order to maintain high levels of online service quality. Organisations need to adopt an application and service management strategy that helps to ensure that online users receive the best possible end-user experience through their application.
• Application Performance Management where application and IT managers can understand end user service levels for their critical business applications.
• Database Management, which spans over multiple database platforms, including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase, in order to provide a true enterprise solution for database performance availability.
• Infrastructure Management, which involves the monitoring, control, configuration, change and release management of network devices, servers, operating systems and other IT infrastructure items.
• Virtualization Management, in order to understand the virtual infrastructure by managing all views of the virtual environment including the datacenter, cluster, resource pool, ESX servers and virtual machines, while correlating all the virtualization activity with the rest of the application environment.

Foglight Performance Analysis

Foglight Performance Analysis is a powerful technology from Quest Software that provides a unique and unprecedented view of database health. It captures and analyzes database workload to identify performance issues and isolate their ultimate root cause?whether it's a specific user, program, action or machine.

Foglight Performance Analysis is an ideal tool to:

• Eliminate unnecessary hardware upgrades.
• Intelligently plan for additional capacity to manage costs and maximize purchasing power.
• Implement chargeback accounting.
• Reallocate IT resources as needed by providing an immediate understanding of any database's unique performance profile.
• Equip junior DBAs to act as more senior DBAs by providing the expertise, tools and information to understand and solve complex, uncommon or intermittent problems.
• Manage more databases with the same headcount.
• Monitor the actual workload on your databases.
• Capture metrics dozens of times each second for a highly accurate picture of database health.
• See exactly what was happening when a problem occurred?right now, or days or even weeks after the fact.