Case Study: Envision Healthcare achieves unified monitoring of 3,000+ databases with Quest Foglight

Healthcare company simplifies database performance monitoring across multiple platforms

Envision Healthcare, a U.S. healthcare services provider supporting more than 1,800 emergency rooms and 25 million patient encounters annually, runs over 3,000 databases on SQL Server, MySQL, DB2 and Oracle. Their DBAs were hampered by a monitoring tool that only covered SQL Server, leaving critical systems — including a MySQL-based physician scheduler — without granular diagnostics, slowing incident response and increasing outage risk.

Envision deployed Foglight for Cross-Platform Databases (installed with Quest Professional Services) to provide unified, continuous monitoring and advanced workload analytics across all platforms; Foglight’s SQL Performance Investigator lets DBAs drill into SQL-level activity and examine historical events. The single-tool solution improved visibility and performance across all database platforms, reduced the risk of outages, and delivered quick, actionable insight into replication, reporting and integration services, helping avert potential performance issues across thousands of databases.

Envision Healthcare

Darrick Webster

Database Administrator