Checkmk vs. Foglight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Checkmk
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Checkmk is a solution for IT Monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid), containers, storage, databases and environment sensors. It can be deployed under all major Linux distributions or users can run it as Docker container or virtual appliance on other operating systems including Windows. The tool is available as a Raw Edition, which is open-source, and as an Enterprise Edition with a many additional enterprise features. The…
$0
up to 10 systems
Foglight
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Foglight 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
CheckmkFoglight
Editions & Modules
Checkmk Free Edition
$0.00
up to 10 systems
Checkmk Raw Edition
$0.00
unlimited & always free
Checkmk Enterprise Edition
starting at $600.00
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CheckmkFoglight
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$600 for up to 3,000 Services / around 100 hostsNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CheckmkFoglight
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Small Businesses
Veeam ONE
Veeam ONE
Score 8.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Icinga
Icinga
Score 8.6 out of 10
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 9.0 out of 10
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
CheckmkFoglight
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CheckmkFoglight
Likelihood to Recommend
tribe29
In our organization which is a mash up of different hardware, software it was important to use an independent tool that wasn’t linked to one manufacturer incase a piece of hardware was dropped from support for example, we also value open-source software highly in our field. It’s important to in our IT environment to be able to customize and tweak software that we run. We don’t use the cloud monitoring aspect so Cannot comment on that side of the software.
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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.)
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Pros
tribe29
  • Device Management
  • Monitoring Network Quality
  • Device Quality of Service
  • SNMP
  • IOT Monitoring
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Quest Software
  • Database monitoring
  • Database management suite
  • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
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Cons
tribe29
  • Updates
  • mobile interface
  • Agent for android devices
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Quest Software
  • 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
tribe29
Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
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Quest Software
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Usability
tribe29
Overall Checkmk is a great product that is made and ran by a European company that is open source and highly customizable, great support if needed. On prem support is a must for our organization which Checkmk supports. Our organization has been using Checkmk for over 5 years now Performance of the software runs excellent on its own Linux server, for any company with a good Linux admin, you can have a lot of un tweaking and creating custom checks for every aspect of your environment.
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Quest Software
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Alternatives Considered
tribe29
Checkmk free version is far superior to PRTG free version. For the paid versions PRTG was more efficient and easier to use. Checkmk provides unlimited services on their free version while PRTG is limited. We like to use the free version to avoid monthly or annual costs while still utilizing the same SNMP features.
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Quest Software
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Return on Investment
tribe29
  • avoid downtime
  • Plan updates based on usage of a VM or network switch to avoid impacting users
  • User satisfaction increased due to less visible downtime or issues with our IT infrastructure.
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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.
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