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These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 7.3.0 release of the Agent...
Created: May 28, 2025These release notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, and other important aspect about Azure SQL Database (Cartridge)
Created: May 28, 2025These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and other important information about the release of Foglight for Oracle.
Created: May 28, 2025These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the release of Foglight.
Created: May 21, 2025These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the release of Foglight.
Created: May 20, 2025These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the Foglight release.
Revised: May 21, 2025A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...
Created: May 20, 2025A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...
Created: May 20, 2025A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...
Created: May 20, 2025A full Foglight installation requires a Foglight Management Server, the agent management software, plus one or more cartridges for monitoring...
Created: May 20, 2025Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...
Created: May 9, 2025Foglight for Databases allows Database Administrators to quickly and efficiently identify performance deviations, determine their root cause...
Created: May 9, 2025None at this time
Users with DBADM and SECADM authority may ask why the provided permission script should be run when configuring the Foglight DB2 Agent, even...
Created: May 27, 2025This article explains how to investigate Foglight Critical or Warning alarms triggered by high Usability Connection Time on Oracle database...
Created: May 21, 2025MongoDB SNMP Traps are missing values for Hostname. The OID Value is not being set for MongoDB alarms unlike other database agent Types.
Created: May 14, 2025Foglight has triggered an alarm for unusually high wait time on the SQL Server wait type HADR_FILESTREAM_IOMGR_IOCOMPLETION. The alert may raise...
Created: May 6, 2025Usability alarms were previously working but are no longer triggering when monitored SQL Server and Oracle instances go offline. The indicator...
Revised: May 29, 2025When monitoring hosts and database instances using a shared Active Directory (AD) service account across multiple agents, a password change in AD...
Revised: May 28, 2025This article answers common questions about managing Performance Investigator (SQL PI) data, including retention policy, repository growth, and...
Revised: May 28, 2025Support bundles generated from the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) may be empty or fail to create. This is often caused by large SQL PI statistics...
Revised: May 28, 2025Performance Investigator (PI) displays historical data based on a predefined time pyramid, which controls data resolution and how long it is kept.
Revised: May 28, 2025What are the key differences between DCOM (WMI) and WinRM for managing and collecting data from Windows systems?
Revised: May 28, 2025Can Foglight SQL Server agent monitor Availability Groups using the listener?
Revised: May 28, 2025This article outlines recommended anti-virus exclusion settings to prevent performance issues or interference with the Foglight Management Server...
Revised: May 28, 2025This article explains how to remove a host from the Foglight Management Server (FMS) when it has been decommissioned or no longer requires...
Revised: May 28, 2025In some cases, the Infrastructure or Infrastructure | Host dashboard may show the same host more than once.
Revised: May 28, 2025What is password length for repository database & can we use special character for db password?
Revised: May 28, 2025How can a topology type be exported from the FMS?
Revised: May 26, 2025What versions of OpenJDK and JDK are used with the Foglight Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager?
Revised: May 23, 2025FglAM (Foglight Agent Manager) log files are being spammed with messages similar to the following: ECHO <com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc...
Revised: May 23, 2025When trying to add an SQL Sever agent the following error appear on the dashboard: "Value of context key fglamsStatus is null' In the log files...
Revised: May 23, 2025When using the Tune SQL option on a Federator returns with a null error, this is not happening when it is at a child level
Revised: May 23, 2025The database agent automatically creates two credentials: one uses username/password authentication and the other is using the challenge-response...
Revised: May 23, 2025How to interpret SQL Server charts having baseline metrics.
Revised: May 23, 2025What is the "DBO - Set ASM reference" rule used for?
Revised: May 23, 2025Why does Foglight reporting a high latency? What Oracle object does Foglight query to run the above test? How often does this test fire?
Revised: May 23, 2025Beginning with the 5.7.5.41 release of the database cartridges, copyright messages in errors in the logs and in the Top SQL dashboards...
Revised: May 23, 2025The Sybase RS agent is able to start the Sybase RS agent, but there is no data collection. The following messages are present on the agent log...
Revised: May 23, 2025A time difference is seen between the alarms and email notifications generated by the "DBSS - Deadlocks" rule and the data displayed on the...
Revised: May 23, 2025The Listener graphs under the Usability dashboard are not populated with data when monitoring RAC One Node.
Revised: May 23, 2025Units for " Total Memory ", " Avg Memory " and " Max Memory " columns are not the same in SAP HANA | SQL PLAN dashboard. " Avg Memory " column...
Revised: May 23, 2025Foglight does not display "SQL Server Analysis" Service in Database | Overview | Support Services dashboard
Revised: May 23, 2025If we install an ASM agent on each RAC node in a cluster, do we create a possible topology churn issue or is it smart enough to deal with it...
Revised: May 23, 2025After upgrading a manually installed ASM agent it fails.
Revised: May 23, 2025A database exclusion has been set for a specific SQL Server database in the Agent Administration page but SQL PI continues to collect data from...
Revised: May 23, 2025The user attempted a failover for the database mirroring but the no alarm was triggered by this rule DBSS - Database Mirroring Role Change.
Revised: May 23, 2025Does DBSS - Database Mirroring Queue Loaded Percent rule require OS account?
Revised: May 23, 2025Attempting to add PL SQL's in "User-defined Collections" wizard, the user keeps on getting Ora errors. Does User Defined Collections support...
Revised: May 23, 2025Some Sybase_MDA agents constantly spike host CPU > 10% above expected normal running values. High CPU traced to Foglight Cartidge for Sybase...
Revised: May 23, 2025The following errors can be received for Oracle databases: Oracle - Collection Status DBO_Virtualization Failed with the exception: A failure...
Revised: May 23, 2025In the README.txt file of DB_Oracle_CLI_Upgrade.zip, instruction states: "The password encryption can manually be done by executing 'Dbwc_Common...
Revised: May 23, 2025Sybase application is having issues resulting to timeslice errors. Monitoring the monLocks table seems to be causing the issue.
Revised: May 23, 2025When generate foglight.xdl from Database deadlock dashboard and open it from SSMS, there is error occurred where it stated :- Failed to...
Revised: May 23, 2025DBSS - Connection Time alarm fires on single high values or data samples.
Revised: May 23, 2025How can the capture of data from sessions in the SQL Server replication monitoring be changed to automatic instead of on-demand?
Revised: May 23, 2025Is there a way to shorten the email subject line for email notifications? The @AlarmMessage@ can be very long making the subject line unreadable...
Revised: May 23, 2025Oracle AWR report indicates frequent DBO cartridge SQL activity in top queries.
Revised: May 23, 2025When monitoring Oracle 12C the Activity > Datafiles I/O Activity dashboard does not show tablespaces of type TEMP.
Revised: May 23, 2025Foglight SQL PI for Oracle displays only the SQL IDs for the DROP statements in Oracle and does not display the SQL Statement.
Revised: May 23, 2025DB2 Current Agent List dashboard displays only the background agent. No application agents are displayed. The no. of agents displayed is only 20.
Revised: May 23, 2025When monitoring DB2 versions 9.7.0.1 and above, no data is retrieved for the home pages and the TOP SQLs panel.
Revised: May 23, 2025When discovering a RAC database and after successfully finishing connection validation information of a node is missing and a node information is...
Revised: May 23, 2025Does the SQL Server cartridge for Foglight use the DBCC Page command for monitoring or data capturing?
Revised: May 23, 2025Sybase DB agents does not display the Segment details for some of the databases on the Databases | MDA Home Page | DataBases | DB Spaces dashboard
Revised: May 23, 2025Database agents log many lot of VERBOSE messages written from functions from the DBSS and DBO cartridge that cause a lot of useless log...
Revised: May 23, 2025No OS metrics data and the SQL PI graph are blank for one instance In Federator FMS environment based on the SQL PI dashboard. All the SQL PI...
Revised: May 23, 2025Instance availability report generated from Foglight is not accurate. For example one of the Oracle instance was down for 4 hours, but the weekly...
Revised: May 22, 2025User gets repeated occurrences of the following error in the FMS log: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS WARN [QuartzScheduler.Monitor_Worker-2] com...
Revised: May 22, 2025After creating or recreating an Oracle Database RAC agent (DBO agent), the dashboard is not showing any data, most of the components are showing...
Revised: May 22, 2025When clicking Compare under the SQL PI dashboard, nothing happens.
Revised: May 22, 2025When trying to install a SQL Analysis Services agent the below error appears: --- java.lang.Exception: Error during SsasMonitoring Start...
Revised: May 22, 2025The database agent stopped writing log message into the log file. The last entry in the log file is several days old, but the agent is collecting...
Revised: May 22, 2025After opening the Homepage dashboard of a RAC database, there are multiple entries of the RAC nodes in the drop down list to select a specific...
Revised: May 22, 2025When looking at the Performance Investigator (PI) dashboard, the amount of session differ. When looking for a specific statement at dimension...
Revised: May 22, 2025Following warning message is seen in the Sybase agent log: WARN [JFogbankAgentSocketListeners[22]-1] com.quest.glue.core.jfogbank...
Revised: May 22, 2025When Foglight for Sybase agent monitors the Sybase backup server, it sometimes crashes.
Revised: May 22, 2025The Sybase_RS agents are not displaying in the Database dashboard
Revised: May 22, 2025How can lock activity at the Oracle instance level be reviewed?
Revised: May 22, 2025A user is trying to run a report but the SQL Templates are coming up blank. When the administrator permission is given then the templates appear...
Revised: May 22, 2025For DB2 versions below 9.7, the CPU collected and displayed for a monitored instance is the CPU for only the monitored databases under that...
Revised: May 22, 2025When reviewing an Oracle RAC agent's SQL PI data, there is a difference between the cluster and instance level data in which the cluster view...
Revised: May 22, 2025What rules are available with the Cassandra cartridge?
Revised: May 22, 2025Is there a way to identify which DBO (Oracle) topologies collect huge data? How to determine the individual size of the Oracle collection?
Revised: May 22, 2025It is a requirement to place the Foglight Management Server (FMS) installer into debug mode in order to obtain any additional information of...
Revised: May 16, 2025Customer would like query the data in Foglight DB through an external application either via ODBC or any other possible means to build report on...
Revised: May 14, 2025What versions of MariaDB are supported by the MySQL PI cartridge.
Revised: May 13, 2025Foglight historical metrics can be exported using a groovy script
Revised: May 13, 2025This article explains how SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) in Foglight captures execution plans for queries inside stored procedures and...
Revised: May 13, 2025This article explains the difference between Estimated Execution Plans and Actual Execution Plans in SQL Server. Understanding these...
Revised: May 13, 2025How can specific rules and alarms be set for a Service?
Revised: May 8, 2025Although email recipients are configured, reports (both manual and scheduled) are not sent via email. Alarm emails are successfully delivered, as...
Revised: May 6, 2025There are three different "SQL text size" fields in the DB2 agent status properties, what are they used for? Top SQLs SQL text size (bytes...
Revised: May 6, 2025How are the following alarms calculated and what are they used for? DB2 - Member Index Cache Hit Ratio DB2 - Member Overall Cache Hit Ratio...
Revised: May 6, 2025In a Federated environment, when two (2) children share the same instance with Lower /Upper case difference in the instance name, the topology is...
Revised: May 6, 2025Unable to add a RAC agent for monitoring with a cluster and nodes located on different Foglight Agent Managers (FglAMs).
Revised: May 6, 2025How does the Sybase cartridge rule "Database_Error_Log Rule" obtain information from the database instance?
Revised: May 6, 2025In the Global Administration | User-defined Collections screen, it is possible to create two collections that bear the same name with a...
Revised: May 6, 2025Dashboards were created for DB2 data and some of the data that are displayed normally in milliseconds or seconds are displaying 'hr' in the y-axis...
Revised: May 6, 2025Under the activity menu, there is a 'Current' Agent dashboard. How are the tables and charts derived? Specifically, the current agent list is a...
Revised: May 6, 2025A SQL Server agent is not monitoring the remote host. The following message is present in the SQL Server agent log file: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS...
Revised: May 6, 2025Which collections are skipped when OS user or OS collections are not an option or disabled? When configuring the agent, using the database user...
Revised: May 6, 2025How can the horizontal bar metrics in the database reports be read?
Revised: May 6, 2025The Enterprise SQL Server Performance Summary report does not display SQL Server memory metrics for one instance. The other instances display the...
Revised: May 6, 2025When adding a ORACLE database to monitor, the install throws an error that SYS can only be used as SYS as sysdba. When this name it used, the...
Revised: May 6, 2025On Instance level Database CPU is reported as 0 seen on "Instance Utilization" CPU graph when db2sysc process reporting 93 CPU%.
Revised: May 6, 2025What do the different statuses of the Sybase Database_Status rule represent?
Revised: May 6, 2025In the drilldowns from the Databases dashboard, some Sybase instances are not fully displaying database graphs. (Accessible by opening Databases...
Revised: May 6, 2025Connections are logged in the Sybase Backup Server log from the Sybase agent every 60 seconds, which can fill the logs with the following...
Revised: May 6, 2025Changes made in the Global Administrations | Alarms screen are saved when switching to another global administration screen, even if selecting...
Revised: May 6, 2025The Monitored Host performance is low as the Agent queries WMI for metrics The Agent logs shows Quota violation [ SWbemServicesEx ] error: YYYY...
Revised: May 6, 2025Not all the OS Collections are working (for example Disk) An error is appearing in the logs stating: you must have a tty to run sudo
Revised: May 6, 2025What is the space allocation required for the DB Agent, from the FMS Repository end? Does the Agent growth stabilize, eventually? What is the...
Revised: May 6, 2025User is able to log in locally to server using SYSDBA from the host itself via SQL, however when using the database agent installer the Oracle...
Revised: May 6, 2025Where can we find the IOPS metrics for a SQL Server host?
Revised: May 6, 2025DB2 agent log contain the following error messages ERROR: [DB2_Log_File_Size] java.lang.RuntimeException: failed getting primary host db name...
Revised: May 6, 2025We created a user defined collection for our database cartridge. Where are the results from the metrics stored in the Foglight topology?
Revised: May 6, 2025Sybase Rules -- TempDB_Space and Database_Space fires a fatal alarm twice.
Revised: May 6, 2025Whenever the DBSS_DTC_Information collection runs it gets the following error (there can similar errors to the below but the solution is...
Revised: May 6, 2025In the DB2 details screen under the 'Memory' -> Buffer pool -> under the activity tab, there are charts which displays read time and write time...
Revised: May 6, 2025When the Sybase server was stopped, the Database screen showed it as "Indeterminate or Down", however no database down alert was created. What...
Revised: May 6, 2025How to interpreting the deadlock graph file generated by the SQL Server cartridge?
Revised: May 6, 2025Is there any way in Foglight that to run custom SQL queries by specifying the connection parameters?
Revised: May 6, 2025What data won't be collected by the DB2 agent if the monitored switches are not turned on?
Revised: May 6, 2025Database or operating system collections fail due to the following error: java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to run WMI query: DBSS_OS_is...
Revised: May 6, 2025A User Defined Collection query fails if it ends with semicolon (";").
Revised: May 6, 2025When running the SQL Server agent installer, the agent does not find any instances.
Revised: May 6, 2025How can we change the text sent when an SNMP trap is cleared? We want to send the text Cleared to let our SNMP system know that the trap has been...
Revised: May 5, 2025When forwarding cleared alarms as SNMP traps the alarm severity stays the same. Is it possible to set the severity to "Normal" in the forwarded...
Revised: May 5, 2025Monitoring all of the databases within all of the agents can unnecessarily load the system, as not all databases require such monitoring, due to...
Revised: May 5, 2025The result of executing “Investigate using the XXXXX drilldown...” will appear There Is No Data
Revised: May 1, 2025What SQL statements are captured by SQL PI and mechanism behind the scene?
Revised: May 1, 2025Foglight for PostgreSQL provides a graphic, intuitive method for creating and configuring agents, which can be used instead of Foglight’s default...
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