Quest Software intros new version of performance analysis

BANGALORE, INDIA: Quest Software, Inc., has announced at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, the latest version of  Foglight Database Performance Analysis, which captures and analyzes database workload to identify performance issues and isolate root cause. The new version addresses the needs of customers who increasingly deploy Performance Analysis across the enterprise and rely on it to alert them of changes, baseline deviations, threshold violations, and tuning opportunities. 

By providing high-resolution workload data, Performance Analysis allows customers to see what happened when a problem occurred and isolate problems to specific users or programs. As a result, customers can reduce mean time to resolution, resolve complex or intermittent problems, and maximize database throughput—all of which reduce costs, increase service levels and boost user satisfaction.

“Our clients expect the best software solutions available, which is why we chose Quest Software,” said Scott Leadham, president of LeadThem Consulting. “Performance Analysis provides the depth, scope, history, granularity, and centralized management our clients need to effectively monitor and performance tune their databases. While there are other solutions that are similar, we have not found any that provide the speed, ease of use and value that Performance Analysis offers. The tool has allowed us to performance tune over 800 client databases to date.” 

Performance Analysis operates independently and external to the database. It captures activity directly from memory and stores this data in a data warehouse. As a result, overhead on the monitored database is minimal and access to data is maintained, even if the database is hung or resource constrained—as is typical during a slowdown or outage. Performance Analysis collects up to 400 times per second to provide accurate, reliable data for effective tuning and troubleshooting.

The latest release of Performance Analysis introduces WebView, a new module that includes:

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• Browser-based access  allows authorized DBAs to troubleshoot issues with just a browser and internet connection
  
  Enhanced alerting automatically notifies DBAs of problems or tuning opportunities and tracks alerts over time
  
  Streamlined administration manages multiple agents simultaneously

Global view presents a holistic enterprise view of database health with visibility into hundreds of databases and the ability to drill down into individual instances or clusters