Supported Platforms

This section, covers the following key areas:

Foglight supports monitoring of the following targets:


Databases

Database Supported versions Performance Investigator (PI)
SQL Server™ 2005 and above (Windows),
2017 and above (Linux)

Azure SQL Managed instance

Amazon RDS for SQL Server: 2014 and above (If supported by Amazon)

SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Version: 2017 and above (If supported by Google)
All supported
Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database Supported
Oracle Oracle 11.2 and above. Supported on Windows, Linux and on Amazon RDS All supported
DB2 for LUW DB2 version 9.53, 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.1, 11.5 -
MySQL™ 5.7 and above
on Windows and Linux
Amazon RDS for MySQL
Azure Database for MySQL
Google Cloud SQL for MySQL
5.6 and above on Windows, Linux, and Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora compatible for MySQL and PostgreSQL latest -
MariaDB™ 10.0 and above
on Windows and Linux

Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Azure Database for MariaDB
10.0, 10.5 and above on Windows and Linux
PostgreSQL™ 9.1 and above
on Windows and Linux

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • 10 and above on Windows and Linux
    - AWS RDS: 10 and above
    - Azure:
    Single server: 11
    Flexible server: 11 and above
AlloyDB Google Cloud Google Cloud
MongoDB™ 2.4 and above
on Windows and Linux
-
Cassandra™ 2.1 and above
on Linux
-
SAP HANA™ 2.0 SPS 02 REV 20 and above
on Linux
-
Redis™ Redis Enterprise 6.2 and above
on Linux

Azure Cache for Redis or OSS Redis is not supported
-
Redshift™ 1.0 and above -
Snowflake™ 7.0 and above -

Any database that runs on Windows or Linux is supported on Azure and Google Cloud as long as it operates as an identical version, either on a virtual machine or as a service.


Infrastructure

Operating Systems

Foglight for Infrastructure is supported on the following platforms:

Operating System Version Architecture
CentOS™ Linux® 7.6 or above x86_64
HP-UX 11i v2
11i v3
Itanium™
IBM® AIX® 6.1
7.1
7.2
POWER
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012
Server 2012 R2
Server 2016
Server 2019
Server 2022
10
11
x86_64
Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 12.2 or above
15.x
x86_64
Oracle® Linux® 6.8 or above
7.6 or above
8.x
9.x
x86_64
Oracle Solaris® 10 (including Zones)
Note: See Quest Support Policies on our support portal for important information on using Foglight in virtual environments.
11 (including Zones).
Note: See Quest Support Policies on our support portal for important information on using Foglight in virtual environments.
x86_64
SPARC
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7.6 or above
8.x
9.x
x86_64
Ubuntu® Linux® 16.04.x LTS
18.04.x LTS
20.04.x LTS
22.04.x LTS
x86_64

Hypervisors

Hypervisor Agent Type
VMWare Foglight for VMware supports VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter Server versions 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x.
Hyper-V Monitored Hyper-V servers must be running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 2022.

Monitored SOFS servers must be running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2022.

Monitored SCVMM servers must be SCVMM 2012, SCVMM 2012 R2, or  SCVMM 2016 or SCVMM 2022.

Cloud Vendors

Cloud Agent
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud

Containers

Foglight for Container Management supports the following container platforms for Kubernetes Agent:

  • Local Kubernetes
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Google Cloud Platform Container Engine (GKE)
  • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)
  • The Origin Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powers Red Hat OpenShift (OKD)

Supported for platforms versions that support Kubernetes library 1.19 and above.

Foglight for Container Management supports the following container platforms for Docker Swarm Agent:

  • Docker Swarm clusters locally or on the cloud platforms
  • Docker Host that does not join any Swarm cluster

Windows containers are not supported in this release.