Viewing Indicators

There are several different types of alert indicators used to represent monitoring data in Foglight. The types are:

The severity and availabilty icons tell you about the condition of an application, server, or process. What they represent changes according to their context. They often represent a rolled-up state of the data collected on the object. For example, the same icon can indicate that a server is down or that a process is down. Many summary views show icons that represent an aggregation of the detailed objects of similar types. You can have Foglight prioritize the data when determining the aggregation by creating a service level agreement to do this. For example, if three test servers are down, and one production server is active, then a summary view would show a critical icon, not a fatal icon. Depending on where it is, you can hover over a severity or availabilty icon or click it to get further information about the condition it represents.


Severity Indicators

Severity indicators can indicate:

  • the severity level of alarms that have fired.
  • the status of an object. For example, a domain, server, application, or process.
Severity Indicator Indicates Description
Normal The component is operating within normal thresholds. A normal severity level indicates that there have been no critical, warning, or fatal events fired. Foglight does not record events that are successful; it can only determine that there are no events that had problems.
Warning Represents a possible performance problem, based on calculations on current server metrics against best-practices thresholds.
Critical Indicates that the current metric values point strongly towards performance-related problems with the specified component.
Fatal There is a very strong indication that the server is experiencing conditions which will degrade performance.

Availability Indicators

Availability indicators show the availability of a service.

Icon Description
Available
Not Available