What’s New
Quest’s Foglight® Cloud solution simplifies database and infrastructure performance monitoring, reducing the skills and effort required to manage the supporting infrastructure.
Foglight performs equally well in physical, virtual, and mixed infrastructure environments, providing visibility into issues affecting the application and end-user experience. By offering comprehensive visibility into your monitored environment, Foglight helps ensure that cross-functional teams collaborate and prioritize issues that matter most to the business.
This page covers the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the current release of Foglight Cloud.
This section covers the following key ares:
General Availability Features
| Features | GA Month | Details |
|---|---|---|
| New platform support | Sep 2024 | Introduce Performance Investigator for PostgreSQL. The SQL Performance Investigator (PI) provides an in-depth analysis and investigation of the Instance activity and resource consumption. Refer to Using PostgreSQL Performance Investigator (PI). |
| Add Support for Open Telemetry | Sep 2024 | Allow database and query insights data to be exported via an OpenTelemetry compatible API. |
| Databases global view dashboard usability enhancement | Sep 2024 | Database Global View dashboard will now show a database type tile on top only if there are monitored targets from that type. |
| SQL Server Monitoring | Sep 2024 | Allow SQL Server agent to connect using kerberos instead of NTLM. |
| New platform support | June 2024 | Ability to monitor RDS servers using AWSHost type agent. |
| Add locked resource description to PI blocking history screen | June 2024 | Enhance historic blocking analysis in SQL Server PI. Added ability to view more detailed information about locked resources. |
| Upgrade SSH library to support more encryption algorithms | June 2024 | Updated the SSH library used by agents to provide support for newer encryption and signature algorithms. |
| Audit kill sessions | June 2024 | The audit record will be created when a user chooses to kill a session in the Sessions dashboard on SQL Server and Oracle or in the Current Agent dashboard on DB2. |
| Easy link to Query Insight dashboard | June 2024 | Query Insight dashboard is now accessible directly from Database Global view dashboard |
| New database platform support | May 2024 | Ability to monitor DB2 and Oracle databases. Refer to Monitor DB2 Database and Monitor Oracle Database. |
| New database platform support | March 2024 | Ability to monitor Azure SQL databases and elastic pools. Refer to Monitor Azure SQL Database. |
| Monitor databases platforms | Dec 2023 | Foglight Cloud supports the following database technologies: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Snowflake, Redis, and Redshift. Refer to Supported Platforms for more information about supported versions and platforms. |
| Monitor infrastructure technologies | Dec 2023 | Foglight Cloud includes support for the following infrastructure technologies: Operating systems - Windows, Linux, AIX, HP, and Sun Hypervisors - VMWare - Hyper-V Cloud Providers - Microsoft Azure - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Google Cloud Containers - Kubernetes - Swarm Web Monitor Network |
Resolved Issues
| Issue ID | Description | Component | Time Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOG-9560 | Welcome page is sometimes displayed instead of the PostgreSQL PI page. | Postgres PI | Dec 2024 |
| FOG-10100 | Blocked session duration time is displayed in milliseconds instead of seconds | Postgres PI | Dec 2024 |
| FOG-10034 | Fix PI errors about unique_stat table that does not exist | SQL Server | Dec 2024 |
Viewing What’s New by Domain
This section provides latest features, updates, and enhancements tailored to specific domains.
