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.
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-9099 | Prevent Agent Health State rule from creating alarms for transient conditions | Foglight Cloud | Sep 2024 |
| FOG-9046 | Cannot add Oracle ASM agents to DB group | Foglight for Oracle | Sep 2024 |
| FOG-8910 | Fix database collections failure when temp file is offline | Foglight for Oracle | Sep 2024 |
| FOG-6723 | Fixed Azure Database names appear duplicates when defining blackout | Foglight for Azure | Sep 2024 |
| FOG-5911, FOG-5910 | Long Running Session alarm not fired when enabled via Alarm Template | Foglight for Oracle, Foglight for SQL Server | June 2024 |
| FOG-8583 | Unable to collect blocking information about metadatalock type locks | Foglight for SQL Server | June 2024 |
| FOG-6667 | Not filtering system sessions correctly for SQL versions above 2005 | Foglight for SQL Server | June 2024 |
| FOG-8755 | Improve performance of collecting jobs information | Foglight for SQL Server | June 2024 |
| FOG-8149 | Fixed - Cannot change timepicker on Databases dashboard. | Foglight for SQL Server | May 2024 |
| FOG-7316 | CLR Security alarms should only be firing for user defined assemblies, not system assemblies. | Foglight for SQL Server | May 2024 |
| FOG-8145 | Increase the amount of VM listed in the Chargeback Report. | Cost Director | May 2024 |
| FOG-6081 | Show statement text when digest text is missing. | Foglight for My SQL PI | May 2024 |
| FOG-7640 | Fixed - SQL Server reports do not allow to select the relevant target. | Foglight for SQL Server | March 2024 |
| FOG-5767 | Set date format according to regional settings in timeframe selector | Foglight UI | March 2024 |
