TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Backup Radar

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Backup Radar is a backup monitoring solution for MSPs designed to reduce risk of data loss, drive business and process efficiency, and achieve greater visibility across backup platforms. It is an automation software that helps MSP’s of all sizes and enterprise IT departments catch missed or failed backups in real-time, streamline backup checking workflows and give full customization for reports, alerts and dashboards. Backup Radar makes it possible for MSP's to see the "unseen". …N/A

    Foglight

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AFoglight is a database performance management suite from Quest, with modules to perform cloud analytics, network performance monitoring and virtualization management, scaling to a broad, cloud / virtualization focused IT infrastructure monitoring solution.N/A
    Pricing
    Backup RadarFoglight
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Backup RadarFoglight
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    Backup RadarFoglight
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Icinga
    Score9 out of 10
    SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
    Score5.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    HPE OneView
    Score6 out of 10
    Redgate Monitor
    Score8 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Backup RadarFoglight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Backup RadarFoglight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ScalePad
    We have more than 2500 individual backup jobs across our customer base. With Backup Radar, I now have a detailed, accurate insight into all jobs. I do not have to wonder or doubt if the backup job did not run, it logs a "no result in 24 hours" ticket for me and if it failed, I get a failure ticket logged. It cannot be more simple. This is done across multiple different backup software. The reporting, be it on demand, or scheduled, is absolutely brilliant and super valuable
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Quest Software
    Strengths [Foglight]
    • Monitoring, Alerting and Management of on-prem virtualization and physical servers
    • Historical trending and baselining are excellent and being able to compare a problem period against the same sets of data for a period when there was no issue is especially helpful as part of troubleshooting.
    • Ease of use for end users is appreciated
    Weaknesses [of Foglight]
    • Creation and management of custom monitors is a developer level activity requiring Groovy skillset
    • Less useful for management of an environment where there is a large amount of custom implementations
    • Commitment to longevity of cartridges/packs for specific subsystems
    • Ability to create custom schedules/alerts/escalations is only available via a 3rd party product (from a former Quest developer) and is not particularly easy to manage/manipulate
    • Lack of API accessibility for external integrations to other analytics (splunk, etc.)
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    ScalePad
    • Backup Monitoring (no successful backups in 24 hours)
    • Automated Ticketing (Backup Radar logs the tickets in our PSA system)
    • Automated Reporting (Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reporting)
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Quest Software
    • Database monitoring
    • Database management suite
    • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    ScalePad
    • None offhand that I can think of
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Quest Software
    • There are not many problems with this product
    • Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    ScalePad
    Never used anything else similar to this
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Quest Software
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    ScalePad
    • Positive, the ROI is no match compared to the integrity and business reputation value we get by using Backup Radar, as we do not "resell" Backup Radar to our customers, it is our internal monitoring and reporting tool for the customers we look after.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Quest Software
    • Foglight has a positive impact on my company by being a complete monitoring platform that specializes in risk assessment, user diagnosis and management, and server monitoring ensuring a secure business infrastructure through predictive analytics, query analysis, anomaly detection, behavior tracking, troubleshooting, automated discovery, and more.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots