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AppDynamics vs Foglight

AppDynamics

40 Ratings

Foglight

12 Ratings

AppDynamics

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Score 7.8 out of 101

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Foglight

12 Ratings
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Score 7 out of 101

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AppDynamics

AppDynamics is really good for comprehensive application monitoring and alerting, but does carry a learning curve to get the real value out of it.

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Foglight

Foglight is particularly helpful when you have multiple platforms, software solutions, or applications running across a variety of networks. It allows users to pinpoint potential problems across these fields and combat them to minimize disruption to the technology itself. The alerts are generally almost instantaneous which allows swift responses and low business interruption.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Application Performance Management

AppDynamics
8.3
Foglight
8.8
Application monitoring
AppDynamics
9.3
Foglight
8.9
Database monitoring
AppDynamics
7.3
Foglight
8.0
Threshold alerts
AppDynamics
8.9
Foglight
9.0
Predictive capabilities
AppDynamics
7.4
Foglight
8.9
Application performance management console
AppDynamics
8.3
Foglight
8.0
Collaboration tools
AppDynamics
8.4
Foglight
9.0
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
AppDynamics
—
Foglight
9.0
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
AppDynamics
—
Foglight
8.9
Virtualization monitoring
AppDynamics
—
Foglight
9.0
Server availability and performance monitoring
AppDynamics
—
Foglight
8.9
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
AppDynamics
—
Foglight
9.0
IT Asset Discovery
AppDynamics
—
Foglight
9.0

Pros

  • It provides a break down of trends based on a baseline. This gives you an idea on how the application is performing.
  • The ability to drill down and look at the application code is extremely helpful.
  • The application has the ability create its own baseline, which by far is one of the best features.

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  • Integration with platforms
  • Uniformity
  • Pinpointing of issues

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Cons

  • Search function. As of now we need to drill down through the tiers in order to get to a specific section. A search function via keyword would make drilling down much faster.
  • A historical view function where you can overlay a WoW (week over Week) view. This would provide value when creating custom graphs. An overlay of WoW can give a comprehensive view of performance and allow for comparison and validation of issues.

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  • There are not many problems with this product
  • Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies

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Likelihood to Renew

We are a reseller of appdynamics

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Alternatives Considered

New Relic is only SaaS and keys off of AppDex scoring (i.e. industry baselines) and not on my application's baselines. Where most of our stuff is custom apps, going off of industry wasn't valuable to us. It was also cost prohibitive

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We were previously using Oracle to monitor resources across servers and networks. In general, that product was alright but the Foglight alerts are far superior to Oracle. The business goal of using Foglight is really to minimize business interruption costs so the faster and more noticeable the alerts, the better the product is at solving our problems.

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Return on Investment

  • Automate and remediate app issues
  • Clients visibility of business transactions
  • Visibility of server health

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  • Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
  • Positive - minimizes business interruption
  • Positive - limits disruptions to productivity

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Pricing Details

AppDynamics

General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
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Foglight

General
Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
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